Stephen Dinan

Democrats make long-shot bid, ask high court to revive congressional map

Virginia Democrats made a Hail Mary attempt to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices to revive the state's Democrat-friendly congressional map.

May 11, 2026

215,000 federal workers were delinquent on their taxes

Some 215,000 U.S. government workers were delinquent on their federal taxes in 2024, the IRS' inspector general reported Monday, and said things are steadily getting worse.

May 11, 2026

Appeals court rules ICE must give members of Congress unfettered access

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that gave members of Congress unfettered access to ICE detention facilities, saying the agency was breaking the law by slapping restrictions on their comings and goings.

May 8, 2026

DOJ goes on denaturalization spree: Cuban spy, terrorists, Catholic priest targeted

The Justice Department is launching a new push to strip criminal immigrants of their U.S. citizenship, saying they never would have been granted status in the first place if their crimes had been known at the time.

May 8, 2026

IRS pays millions of dollars in erroneous tax breaks to noncitizens

The IRS let more than $100 million a year in tax breaks go to foreign citizens who have Social Security numbers but aren't allowed to work and should not be claiming the credits, the agency's inspector general said.

May 8, 2026

Man who assaulted Rep. Ilhan Omar at Minnesota town hall pleads guilty

The man who squirted vinegar on Rep. Ilhan Omar during a town hall in January pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of assaulting a U.S. officer.

May 8, 2026

Supreme Court justices to testify on Capitol Hill

Some Supreme Court justices will reportedly come to Capitol Hill later this month to testify on their budget, marking a rare moment when the two branches of government will have a direct discussion in public.

May 7, 2026

Neither rain nor sleet — nor a handgun: USPS nears rule to allow pistols in mail

The U.S. Postal Service is nearing completion of a rule that would allow people to ship handguns through the regular mail, undercutting the oldest federal firearms law in existence and drawing fierce criticism from both sides of the gun debate.

May 7, 2026

Trump’s council calls for slimmed-down FEMA that responds to fewer emergencies

President Trump's special panel deciding FEMA's future called for an end-it-then-mend-it approach to the disaster-response agency.

May 7, 2026

USDA tells food-stamp stores to sell more ‘real food’

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Thursday that stores that accept government food stamps must sell more "real food" in an effort to prod America's poor to ditch snacks in favor of healthier fare.

May 7, 2026

Aide to Democratic Rep. Danny Davis indicted for pandemic fraud

A long-time aide to Democratic Rep. Danny Davis has been indicted on charges of claiming unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic, even though he was working for Congress the whole time.

May 7, 2026

Federal judge allows ICE school-area arrest policy to stand in Minnesota

A federal judge in Minnesota swatted down a challenge to ICE's policy allowing immigration arrests near schools, ruling Wednesday that the school districts that sued to stop it lacked legal standing to bring the case.

May 6, 2026

DOJ opens probe into Fairfax County prosecutor over lax treatment of illegal immigrants

The Justice Department alerted Fairfax County's elected prosecutor on Wednesday that he is now under investigation for civil rights "misconduct" for going too easy on immigrants when his office decides how to prosecute cases.

May 6, 2026

Supreme Court rebuffs request for do-over in Voting Rights Act redistricting case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned down a request to take a mulligan on last week's major Voting Rights Act ruling, freeing Louisiana to rush a redraw of its congressional map.

May 6, 2026

White House gives unprecedented look at systems that prevent deleting messages, documents

The White House pulled back the cover on its methods for preserving presidential records this week, telling a federal judge that it has systems in place to prevent deletion of electronic documents, emails, chats and text messages created on their official devices.

May 5, 2026

Trump administration sues Denver over gun ban that includes AR-15s

The Trump Justice Department sued Denver on Tuesday, asking a judge to strike down the city's ban on "assault weapons," which covers even popular AR-15-style rifles.

May 5, 2026

Judge orders ethics probe of ICE over release of homicide suspect, allows him to be rearrested

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a disciplinary review of immigration officials' conduct for their serious breakdown in handling a deportation case, but she bowed to the government's demands by allowing ICE to rearrest the migrant homicide suspect she set free just a week earlier.

May 5, 2026

Alert customs officers at airport uncover illegal shipment of weapons, ammunition

Customs and Border Protection officers manning the cargo lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport felt there might be something fishy about a shipment arriving from Hong Kong.

May 5, 2026

Supreme Court boosts Louisiana redistricting by speeding final mandate in Voting Rights Act case

The Supreme Court on Monday sped up its final judgment in last week's Voting Rights Act case, giving Louisiana a bit of a boost as it rushes to redraw its congressional map before November's election.

May 4, 2026

ICE released a murder suspect into U.S. without any conditions; judge threatens punishment

ICE released an illegal immigrant wanted for murder in El Salvador into the U.S. without an ankle monitor or any other conditions of supervision, and now a federal judge is pondering what sanctions she can slap on the deportation agency.

May 4, 2026