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Articles by Stephen Dinan

FBI Director Kash Patel appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for his first oversight hearing, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

FBI has no evidence Epstein trafficked girls to others

The FBI's truncated investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein found no evidence that he trafficked women or girls to other people, and only showed he procured them for himself, bureau Director Kash Patel told Congress on Tuesday.

September 16, 2025
In this March 9, 2009, file photo, the Harry S. Truman Building, headquarters for the State Department, is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Fed employee fraudster who stole $650,000 blames pandemic stress

A woman who used her job at the State Department to steal more than $650,000 in government money pleaded with a judge for leniency, blaming pandemic stress for a crippling gambling addiction she said she had to fuel with taxpayers' cash.

September 12, 2025
Cpl. Edward Chin of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, covers the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag before toppling the statue in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, on April 9, 2003. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

9/11 was 24 years ago and the U.S. is still at war

The U.S. hasn't had troops in Afghanistan for four years, yet nearly a quarter century after al Qaeda's Sept. 11 sneak attack on America, Congress' authorization for the president to conduct a retaliatory global war on terrorism remains in full force.

September 10, 2025