Stephen Dinan

Ted Wheeler, Portland mayor, refutes stand-down policy during anti-ICE protests

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler says he never ordered police to ignore 911 calls from ICE employees who felt their lives were threatened during the June standoff between riotous protesters and employees who worked at the ICE building in Oregon's biggest city.

August 1, 2018

Kavanaugh hearings likely to push to September

Judge Brett Kavanaugh may not be on the Supreme Court for the start of the justices' new term in early October, a key senator signaled Tuesday, suggesting a slightly slower schedule than some Republicans had hoped for.

August 1, 2018

GOP focused on avoiding government shutdown

Congressional Republicans on Tuesday brushed off President Trump's threats of a government shutdown over border wall funding, saying that while money for the wall is important, they're not going to let it send Congress into partisan gridlock.

July 31, 2018

Top health official warned feds against family separations

A senior government health official had warned the Trump administration against any policy that would lead to immigrant family separations after crossing the border illegally, and was assured no such plan was in the works -- only to see the Justice Department announce the zero-tolerance policy anyway.

July 31, 2018

Paul Manafort will remain in jail during trial, court rules

Paul Manafort will remain behind bars while he fights two separate prosecutions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, upholding a district court judge's decision that Mr. Manafort tried to tamper with witnesses in the case against him.

July 31, 2018

Grassley, Feinstein demand review of abuse of immigrants in detention

Two top senators called for an investigation Monday into reports of sexual abuse and other mistreatment of migrants being held in government custody.

July 30, 2018

Feds nab man for smuggling ‘special interest’ migrants from Yemen

Federal authorities announced Monday that they had arrested a Jordanian man who they accused of smuggling people into the U.S. from Yemen, which is deemed a "special interest" country because of its connection to terrorism.

July 30, 2018

ICE officers demand Portland mayor apologize for ‘Occupy ICE’ chaos

Portland's mayor violated the Constitution by ordering his police officers to stand down, allowing protesters to menace ICE employees over the last six weeks, according to agency employees who sent a cease-and-desist letter to the city Monday.

July 30, 2018

Activists revive ‘Muslim ban’ challenge over lack of waivers

The Supreme Court may have upheld President Trump's travel ban, but several dozen Muslims are still challenging the way his administration is carrying it out, saying he's not living up to the terms he set for his own policy.

July 30, 2018

National Archives releases first batch of Kavanaugh documents

The National Archives on Monday released the first big batch of documents from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's time in the independent counsel's office in the 1990s.

July 30, 2018

Illegal immigrant court complaint: Bad food, chill, disease

Illegal immigrant families are furious at the treatment they received after being detained at the border, complaining of bad burritos, cold soups, being forced to drink water out of toilets and contagious disease outbreaks that have swept through the facilities.

July 29, 2018

Mitch McConnell says Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed despite Democrats’ resistance

Republicans have sent the clearest signals yet that they will not allow Democratic foot-dragging to delay their push to confirm a new Supreme Court justice, ditching negotiations and plowing ahead with their own more-limited investigation into Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's background.

July 29, 2018

Judge: Border family reunification ‘has been completed’

The judge overseeing the chaos from President Trump's zero-tolerance border policy gave the government good marks for its efforts to reunify families, saying that for the parents the government has control over "that process has been completed."

July 28, 2018

GOP sets deadline for Kavanaugh documents; Dems say they’re being cut out

Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley said Friday he's hit a wall in negotiations with Democrats over documents from Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh's past, and he moved unilaterally to request a more limited set of papers from his time in the Bush White House.

July 27, 2018