Stephen Dinan

GOP’s Schmitt calls Jack Smith ‘dirtbag’; former special counsel says Trump should’ve been convicted

Former special counsel Jack Smith vowed not to be "silenced" by threats of prosecution and doubled down Tuesday on his assertion that President Trump should have been convicted of felonies.

September 29, 2026

Jack Smith says he should have spoken up to keep support for Trump criminal cases

Former special counsel Jack Smith told senators on Tuesday that his one failing in his criminal cases against President Trump was that he didn't talk enough and lost public support against false attacks.

September 29, 2026

Woman hid mother’s body in freezer to keep getting her Social Security, say federal prosecutors

An Illinois woman hid her mother's body in a deep freezer in her garage for two years and assumed her identity to keep her Social Security benefits flowing, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

September 29, 2026

Jack Smith’s Trump investigation scooped up communications from major media

Former special counsel Jack Smith's probe into President Trump and Republicans collected "communications" from members of the news media, including major networks and newspapers, the Senate's senior lawmaker revealed Tuesday.

September 29, 2026

DHS flubbed 40% of Afghan ally asylum cases

Homeland Security's citizenship agency failed to spot information that could have sunk asylum applications in 40% of cases involving Afghans evacuated during the Biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

September 28, 2026

Justice Alito recuses from major climate-change case to be heard next week

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. will recuse himself when the Supreme Court hears a major climate change case next week.

September 28, 2026

The U.S. spends $1 billion a year jailing foreign criminals. Here’s who they are

The federal government spends $1 billion a year to keep foreign citizens in its prisons, according to a study released Monday.

September 28, 2026

Trump takes fight over prisoners’ transgender medical treatment to Supreme Court

President Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to approve the federal prisons' new policy of refusing to pay for hormone treatments and surgeries for prisoners who seek to undergo gender transitions while behind bars.

September 28, 2026

Federal agencies have empty meeting rooms to share, but almost nobody knows it

Agencies are sitting on dozens of meeting spaces across the country that they are willing to share with other agencies -- but the others don't know about it, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office, Congress's chief watchdog.

September 28, 2026

Is it legal for millionaires to collect unemployment? For years, states had no choice

Ten thousand households that earned more than $1 million in 2024 collected unemployment benefits that year, according to data shared with The Washington Times.

September 28, 2026

Supreme Court — for third time — denies GOP’s bid to use Republican-friendly maps in Missouri

The Supreme Court rejected Republicans' latest attempt to revive a GOP-tilted map for November's congressional elections, ruling for a third time that even though the state held primaries under the new map, the old one must be used.

September 26, 2026

NYC’s high school affirmative action policy challenged in Supreme Court

A New York City mother has asked the Supreme Court to step in and order her son be allowed to take a seat at the selective Stuyvesant High School, saying he's being blocked by affirmative action policies that punish him for being Asian American.

September 25, 2026

The IRS loses up to $304 billion a year to fraud. It still has no antifraud strategy

The IRS is a prime target for fraudsters, who bilk the tax agency out of as much as $300 billion a year in refunds or underpayments on taxes owed, according to a new analysis by Congress's top watchdog.

September 25, 2026

Supreme Court revives DHS’ database letting states check voters’ citizenship

The Supreme Court issued an order allowing the Department of Homeland Security to keep using a database that lets states scour their voter lists for ineligible noncitizens, saying the system appears to be lawful.

September 25, 2026

DHS takes ‘third countries’ deportation fight to Supreme Court

Homeland Security asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to step into a fight over the government's ability to remove illegal immigrants to 'third countries' when their homelands won't take them back.

September 24, 2026

Trump’s lawsuit against Iowa pollster, newspaper tossed by judge

An Iowa judge has shut down President Trump's lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, saying their flawed survey work is protected by the First Amendment.

September 24, 2026

ICE rushed to buy 11 warehouses for detention. Now it’s trying to sell 7 of them

ICE's effort to rapidly build its detention capacity has wasted millions of dollars as the Trump administration took a spend-first, ask-questions-later approach, the Government Accountability Office said in a withering audit Thursday.

September 24, 2026

New York’s climate law that tried to punish oil companies is ruled unconstitutional

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that New York's attempt to make fossil fuel companies pay up $75 billion to combat climate change was unconstitutional, delivering a victory to the Trump administration.

September 23, 2026

Woman spent 86 hours in solitary confinement over misused Flock camera report

Flock's CEO was a no-show at a Senate hearing Wednesday, where a Florida woman described being sent to jail after police, using a Flock license plate reader camera, erroneously accused her of being the driver in a fatal car crash.

September 23, 2026

Florida AG demands New York Times’ financial docs after reporter cites paper’s anti-Jewish slant

A New York Times journalist is alleging anti-Jewish sentiment inside the newsroom of the storied media outlet, including being told to delete a message supportive of Jewish colleagues.

September 23, 2026