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Articles by Stephen Dinan

Drug scouts for cartels would be sent to prison under proposed bill

Mexican cartels for years have stationed scouts on hilltops inside the U.S., acting as spotters for smugglers trying to sneak by the Border Patrol to get drugs or illegal immigrants into the country — and the government has been hard-pressed to find ways to stop them.

March 27, 2017
FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump, accompanied by Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. House Republican leaders want to shift more than $2 billion in Medicaid costs from upstate counties to the New York State government. The provision would help mostly Republican-controlled counties that have struggled to subsidize Medicaid payments for the poor. New York City wouldnt get the same relief. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Republicans reschedule Obamacare showdown vote for Friday

President Trump's team delivered a final ultimatum to House Republicans Thursday night, saying they'll make one more round of changes to the health bill, then hold a final vote -- and if it fails, they're done.

March 23, 2017
Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, floated a compromise Obamacare repeal plan Monday. “I think the compromise could be keeping some of the underlying payments in Obamacare, some small percentage of them, in order to placate the people who want that, but not affirmatively putting it in the bill,” Mr. Paul said. “Conservatives want 100 percent repeal, let’s say moderates want 80 percent repeal. Let’s vote on 90 percent repeal and be done with it.” (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Rand Paul cheers conservatives’ blockade of Obamacare repeal

Sen. Rand Paul praised House conservatives for blocking the Obamacare repeal bill Thursday, but said the White House could easily break the impasse if it would agree to send Vice President Mike Pence up to preside over the eventual Senate debate.

March 23, 2017
Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican (Associated Press) **FILE**

Duncan Hunter faces probe over campaign finances

The Justice Department is investigating Rep. Duncan Hunter, the House ethics committee revealed Thursday as it put its own probe into potential campaign finance violations on hold to allow the criminal investigation to proceed.

March 23, 2017
The sanctions issued Tuesday by the Trump administration mark a major increase in pressure on countries that refuse to take back their deportees. (Associated Press/File)

Half of all federal arrests related to immigration

Immigration arrests and border-related cases have swamped the federal government, the Justice Department said Thursday, pointing to new statistics that show half of all arrests made by federal authorities in 2014 were for immigration offenses.

March 23, 2017
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the National Republican Congressional Committee March Dinner at the National Building Museum, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump ‘somewhat’ vindicated by intel brief

President Trump said he felt 'somewhat' vindicated after being briefed Wednesday by House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes, who says Obama officials were in fact monitoring communications of Mr. Trump's top aides.

March 22, 2017
Many of the leaks have dealt with confidential details of the Russia probe or with sensitive internal White House conversations or talks with world leaders. (Associated Press/File)

Trump transition officials ‘unmasked’ by intel community

Trump presidential transition officials had their communications monitored and "unmasked" by the intelligence community, offering the first major piece of evidence of suspected illegal activity by Obama officials against Donald Trump as president-elect.

March 22, 2017
FBI Director James Comey, left, accompanied by National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, before the House Intelligence hearing on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

FBI confirms investigation into Trump campaign ties with Russia

The FBI is probing whether Donald Trump or his advisers coordinated with Russia ahead of the November election, Director James B. Comey said Monday, but his agents have found no evidence to back up the president's repeated accusations that the Obama administration was snooping on him.

March 20, 2017