Stephen Dinan

Supreme Court gives Trump breathing room on halting foreign assistance spending

The Supreme Court gave a brief reprieve Tuesday to President Trump in his battle to refuse to spend $4 billion in foreign assistance money.

September 9, 2025

Man charged with writing ‘How to Kill a Federal Judge’ manifesto

Prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against a Minnesota man they say wrote a how-to manifesto urging Americans to try to kill federal judges.

September 9, 2025

Not a victimless crime: Angel Families reshape the narrative about illegal immigration

Mary Ann Mendoza went to bed on Mother's Day in 2014 not knowing her nightmare was about to begin.

September 9, 2025

North Carolina reaches agreement with Justice Dept. to clean up its voter rolls

Election officials in North Carolina have reached a consent decree with the federal Justice Department committing the state to clean up its voter rolls by requiring everyone on the list to provide a driver's license or Social Security number.

September 9, 2025

DHS says immigration enforcement agents aren’t ‘raiding’ schools, arrests will be ‘extremely rare’

The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that immigration agents will enter schools to make arrests in only "extremely rare" circumstances and not to target children, as the department sought to push back on a rash of news reports suggesting some kids are avoiding their classrooms.

September 9, 2025

ICE announces new ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ to arrest illegal immigrants in Chicago area

ICE swarmed deportation officers to Illinois on Monday, kicking off a massive operation to arrest unauthorized immigrants whom the agency said had been protected by the state's sanctuary laws.

September 8, 2025

Supreme Court OKs Trump’s L.A. immigration sweeps, says ethnicity ‘relevant factor’

The Supreme Court rode to the rescue of President Trump's immigration crackdown on Monday, giving a green light to the kind of aggressive tactics ICE used in its "mass deportation" arrests in Los Angeles earlier this year.

September 8, 2025

Supreme Court sides with Trump in firing of FTC commissioner

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to carry out his firing of a Federal Trade Commission board member -- for now.

September 8, 2025

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him block $4 billion in foreign aid before deadline

The Trump administration rushed to the Supreme Court on Monday to ask the justices to step in and shut down billions of dollars in foreign assistance that a lower judge has ordered the government to pay.

September 8, 2025

Judge shoots down Northern Virginia schools’ lawsuit to keep transgender bathrooms

A federal judge on Friday rejected lawsuits by Fairfax County and Arlington County school boards over their transgender bathroom use policies, saying their challenge to losing federal grant money belongs in claims court instead.

September 6, 2025

Judge sidesteps Supreme Court, restores deportation amnesty for Venezuelans, Haitians

A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration broke the law when it sought to revoke a last-minute Biden renewal of Temporary Protected Status -- a form of deportation amnesty -- for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan migrants.

September 6, 2025

Gang uses pandemic small business loans to buy guns, alcohol: Feds

Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against a dozen members of the Florida-based Hood Boys, accusing the gang of fraudulently applying for pandemic small business loans, then spending the money at gun and liquor stores.

September 5, 2025

ICE finds over 475 illegal workers at Hyundai plant in Georgia

When federal law enforcement raided a Hyundai plant in Georgia this week, some migrants ran into a sewage pond to try to escape, with one man trying to flip the boat that agents were using to fish them out of the water.

September 5, 2025

Feds bust migrant smuggling ring that charged Cubans up to $40,000 to sneak into U.S.

Federal prosecutors said they have busted a lucrative and massive migrant smuggling ring that brought thousands of Cubans to the U.S. while instructing them how to deceive border guards to get in and fake asylum claims to win more permanent status.

September 5, 2025

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him fire FTC official

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene in yet another legal battle over the president's attempt to fire agency officials.

September 4, 2025

Federal workers bowing to Trump’s order to show up for work

President Trump's effort to get federal employees back into their offices for work is proving to be stunningly effective, with the number of full-time in-office employees nearly tripling over the last six months.

September 4, 2025

DHS’ citizenship agency expands power, hiring special agents to make arrests

The Department of Homeland Security's third immigration agency, which usually handles legal applications, is getting deeper into the law enforcement game as well.

September 4, 2025

DHS ends deportation amnesty for Venezuelans

The Homeland Security Department announced the end of a years-old deportation amnesty for migrants from Venezuela, saying Wednesday that the program has become too much of a threat to public safety and national security.

September 3, 2025

American citizens emerge as new threat to ICE officers

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement experts said they're used to dealing with illegal immigrants resisting their own arrest, but said the growth of American saboteurs attempting their own guerrilla war on ICE is a new extreme.

September 3, 2025

Trump appeals court ruling against his troop deployment in Los Angeles

The Trump administration on Wednesday asked a federal appeals court to step in and block a lower court ruling that found his deployment of troops to Los Angeles violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

September 3, 2025