Stephen Dinan

Immigrants in coronavirus pandemic essential to economy

Coronavirus is the ultimate proving ground for illegal immigrants, they believe -- a chance to show they are as American as anyone else, sharing the same experiences and just as, if not more, integral to the economy.

April 8, 2020

DHS to hold up export of N95 masks, other medical equipment

Homeland Security said Wednesday it will begin halting export shipments of N95 respirators, surgical masks, gloves and other key medical equipment that would otherwise have gone to other countries.

April 8, 2020

Disaster movies, pandemic books surge as coronavirus infects pop culture

The coronavirus crisis has created a bit of a cult following for Dorsey Armstrong, a professor of medieval literature at Purdue University, who four years ago recorded a Great Courses lecture series on the Black Death.

April 7, 2020

Appeals court sides with Trump administration on death penalty protocol

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the government can carry out executions under its new lethal injection protocols, erasing a lower court's injunction and clearing one of the roadblocks to restarting the federal death penalty.

April 7, 2020

Immigrant health care workers sidelined amid coronavirus: Study

America's strict medical licensing regime has left hundreds of thousands of health workers on the sidelines -- immigrants who earned degrees in the field overseas but have been shut out of the business because they haven't been able to transfer their credentials to the U.S., according to a new study Tuesday.

April 7, 2020

Justice Department researchers: Mass shootings ‘elusive as they are disruptive’

Justice Department researchers said Monday that before the country can get a handle on mass shootings, it needs to come up with uniform definitions and a better set of data.

April 6, 2020

Illegal immigration down 60% at border amid coronavirus

Illegal immigration is down nearly 60% at the southern border amid the coronavirus crisis, the Department of Homeland Security said Monday.

April 6, 2020

Smugglers posing as border wall construction crew in shootout with border patrol

A Border Patrol agent was involved in a shooting last week with a smuggler who was posing as part of the construction crews working on President Trump's border wall in Arizona, The Washington Times has learned.

April 5, 2020

Trump power limited in coronavirus pandemic by Constitution

Americans have been getting a serious civics lesson over the past month as they turn to Washington for answers to the coronavirus crisis -- only to find out their state governors have far more control over what goes on in their daily lives.

April 5, 2020

Marijuana business hide income, use illegal deductions to cut tax bill

Majority of the businesses have been bilking Uncle Sam to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars from illegal deductions or hidden income, the IRS inspector general said in a report released Thursday.

April 2, 2020

Gun sales up 85% in March amid coronavirus fears

A record 2.5 million guns were sold in March, up 85% compared with the same month last year, according to an analysis released Wednesday by Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting that said all the speculation about pandemic-induced buying was accurate.

April 1, 2020

Feds have 10,469 total ventilators available

The federal government announced Wednesday it has 10,469 ventilators in reserve, ready to dole out to needy states amid the coronavirus crisis. Now it will make what could be literally life-and-death decisions about where they'll go.

April 1, 2020

Sex and smuggling under HHS as feds charge shelter worker with helping illegal immigrant teen escape

Federal agents have exposed a shocking tale of illicit relationships between a worker at a government-sponsored shelter and an illegal immigrant boy she was supposed to be taking care of -- and a plot by three employees to orchestrate a jailbreak, freeing him from custody.

March 31, 2020

Immigration activists take to streets, demand ICE release migrants being held in custody

Immigration activists stepped up their campaign to force ICE to release migrants amid the coronavirus crisis, taking to the streets in California in a drive-by protest Tuesday demanding the governor issue an emergency shutdown order for federal detention facilities in the state.

March 31, 2020

How the FDA is thwarting distilleries trying to make hand sanitizer amid coronavirus pandemic

Scott Harris, co-founder of Catoctin Creek distillery in Purcellville, Virginia, has been eager to convert 55 gallons of disposal alcohol he already had into hand sanitizer and ordering another 1,000 gallons from his supplier. As one of those with easy access to alcohol, the key ingredient in sanitizer, he says he felt a "moral responsibility" to step up.

March 31, 2020

U.S., Mexico bust drug-smuggling border tunnel; agents seize $30 million in drugs

Federal agents discovered and shut down a "sophisticated" smuggling tunnel between the U.S. and Mexico, officials announced Tuesday, and seized what one prosecutor called "a jaw-dropping" $30 million in drugs.

March 31, 2020

FBI’s FISA problems run deeper than Carter Page, Trump probe: Inspector general

The FBI's bungling of FISA applications runs far deeper than the already well-known problems with the bureau's snooping on the Trump campaign, according to a new inspector general's audit Tuesday that found agents either lost or never compiled backup information for some applications, and made errors in others.

March 31, 2020

Distillers making hand sanitizer threatened by FDA regulations

The Food and Drug Administration has issued guidelines that distilleries say could shunt them to the sidelines, unable to use their stocks of alcohol any more to help out.

March 30, 2020

Judges ordering release of high health risk illegals from ICE custody

Federal judges have begun to order release of high health risk illegal immigrants from ICE custody amid the coronavirus crisis, saying the agency is showing "callous disregard" by keeping them in group facilities where they are at risk of infection.

March 29, 2020

Former Sen. Tom Coburn, Washington’s top waste watcher, dead at 72

Tom Coburn, a medical doctor turned politician died Saturday morning at age 72 after a lengthy battle with cancer, according to his family, leaving one of the most substantial legacies in recent congressional history.

March 28, 2020