Stephen Dinan

Democrats set April 23 deadline for IRS to hand over Trump tax returns

House Democrats set a new deadline Saturday for President Trump to turn over his tax returns, giving the IRS 10 more days before it is deemed to be stonewalling.

April 13, 2019

Vietnam vet pretended to be blind for 35 years; stole $1.3 million in disability

A Vietnam War veteran who spent 35 years pretending to be blind and bilked the federal government out of $1.3 million in disability payments was sentenced to a year in prison, prosecutors announced Friday.

April 12, 2019

Donald Trump says he’s looking to ship illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities

President Trump said Friday that he is considering a plan to release illegal immigrants into sanctuary cities, saying it is fitting punishment for Democrat-led communities that refuse to get tough on border security.

April 12, 2019

Mitch McConnell advises GOP senators to campaign independent of Donald Trump

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators running for reelection next year should not couple their messaging to President Trump but rather run "independent" campaigns built around how they've helped their states.

April 11, 2019

Mitch McConnell tells 2020 Republicans to run ‘independent’ of Donald Trump

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Republican senators running for re-election next year should not couple their messaging to President Trump but rather run "independent" campaigns built around how they've helped their states.

April 11, 2019

Mitch McConnell willing to talk immigration deal with Democrats

The Senate's top Republican and the House's top Democrat each said Thursday that they're open to a broad immigration debate this year, sending the issue soaring back to the top of the congressional agenda.

April 11, 2019

Michael Avenatti charged with 36 counts: Embezzlement, fraud, cheating on taxes

Add tax cheat to the list of charges against anti-Trump celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti.

April 11, 2019

Omar Barghouti, BDS movement leader, blocked from entering U.S.

The Trump administration refused to let the founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement into the U.S. this week, according to the group that was supposed to host him.

April 11, 2019

Treasury Department misses Democrats’ deadline for Trump tax returns

The Treasury Department blew through congressional Democrats' Wednesday deadline for turning over President Trump's tax returns, with officials saying they want to study the request and figure out if it's legally sound.

April 10, 2019

Ronald D. Vitiello, acting ICE chief, quits after Trump canceled nomination

Ronald D. Vitiello officially resigned from acting director at ICE on Wednesday, just days after President Trump canceled his nomination to be the agency's permanent chief.

April 10, 2019

Twitter says study proves no anti-conservative bias

Twitter told senators Wednesday that it doesn't hold a bias against conservatives, saying the social media giant studied tweets by all Democrats and Republicans in Congress this year and found they drew similar rates of viewership.

April 10, 2019

Donald Trump: Central American migrants worse than Mexicans

President Trump suggested Wednesday that illegal immigrants from Central America are worse than those from Mexico, changing tone from his campaign declaration that Mexico was sending the worst of the worst to the U.S.

April 10, 2019

‘Spying did occur’ on Trump campaign: William Barr

Attorney General William P. Barr said Wednesday that under the Obama administration, the FBI did spy on President Trump's campaign -- though he said he has yet to conclude whether the actions were legal and correct.

April 10, 2019

Trump Homeland Security ‘cleaning house’ to break Obama-era mentality

As President Trump's shakeup at Homeland Security continues to rattle Capitol Hill, the administration says there's a clear logic to the moves -- find people who can break through the bureaucracy that so far has thwarted much of the president's agenda.

April 9, 2019

Donald Trump rules out ‘Obama’ family separations in renewed border crackdown

President Trump on Tuesday ruled out a restart of family separations at the border, but a top administration aide laid out an expansive agenda they hope to accomplish otherwise, including rules to make it tougher to claim asylum and powers to let the administration detain illegal immigrant families who jump the border.

April 9, 2019

White House vows to appeal Judge Richard Seeborg asylum ruling

The White House on Tuesday vowed an appeal and angrily denounced an Obama-appointed judge who ruled against President Trump's new get-tough policy to make migrants wait in Mexico while their asylum cases are being heard in the U.S.

April 9, 2019

Democrats look to vote on Dreamers and TPS legislation before August

Democrats will try over the next few months to pass a bill granting citizenship rights to millions of illegal immigrants, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday.

April 9, 2019

New border zero tolerance would mean ‘mass traumatization’ of children: Health official

The point man for the administration's handling of illegal immigrant children on Tuesday dealt a severe blow to plans to restart the zero tolerance border policy, saying the government doesn't have the capacity to handle the surge of children that would result.

April 9, 2019

Kirstjen Nielsen Homeland Security replacement to face confirmation struggle

Getting any pick through the Senate is going to be rough for President Trump, who over the weekend ousted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

April 8, 2019

Judge Richard Seeborg blocks Trump wait-in-Mexico asylum policy

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop its new policy of sending asylum-seekers who jumped the border back to Mexico to wait while their cases proceed, ruling Monday that the plan was likely illegal.

April 8, 2019