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Articles by Stephen Dinan

Screen capture from the official campaign website for Dr. Ibraheem Samirah, a Democrat running for the Virginia House of Delegates in a special election to be held on Feb. 19, 2019. (https://samirah4delegate.com/biography/)

Virginia Democrats add anti-Semitism accusation to party’s troubles

Ibraheem Samirah, Democrats' candidate in a special election for a state House seat later this month, apologized Friday for anti-Israel comments from earlier this decade, saying that while he made them, the fact that they are rising now is a "slander campaign."

February 8, 2019
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens at left as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, objects to advancing the nomination of Bill Barr to be attorney general, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Lindsey Graham: Blue slips won’t derail Trump appeals court picks

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said Thursday that he will honor the Senate's "blue slip" tradition for district court judges but not for appeals court nominees, giving Democrats a limited veto over President Trump's judicial picks.

February 7, 2019
Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, wipes his brow after making an announcement of an indictment of Chinese telecommunications companies including Huawei, on violations including bank and wire fraud, Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Dems vote to approve subpoena for Trump AG Matthew Whitaker

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker says he's ready to testify Friday to the House Judiciary Committee -- but the panel's Democrats approved a subpoena anyway on Thursday, saying they wanted to put him on record that he could be punished if he doesn't answer all their questions.

February 7, 2019
In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo, U.S. Army troops place additional concertina wire to the border fence on a hillside above Nelson Street in downtown Nogales, Ariz. (Jonathan Clark/Nogales International via AP) ** FILE **

Nogales, Arizona demands feds remove border fence barbed wire

A small border town in Arizona declared a public relations war on the Trump administration Wednesday, demanding the feds cut down miles of razor wire that have been attached to the border wall in recent weeks to try to increase security ahead of the migrant caravans.

February 6, 2019