Stephen Dinan

Hillary Clinton promises to fund attorneys for illegals, tells Obama to stop raids

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton urged President Obama to halt the new round of deportation raids and called Monday night for the government to pay for attorneys for all children who wind up in immigration courts.

January 11, 2016

Supreme Court’s conservative justices cast doubt on labor union fees

The Supreme Court is poised to dent the political power of labor after conservative justices cast doubt Monday on public sector unions' ability to collect fees even from workers who disagree with the union's political or other demands.

January 11, 2016

Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions identify 113 radicalized terrorists in U.S.

Sens. Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions said Monday the number of people implicated in radical Islamic terrorist plots in the U.S. has jumped to 113, and they said it's yet another reason to impose tighter immigration controls.

January 11, 2016

Obama’s last State of the Union will lay out path for his legacy

With little chance of getting what he wants from Congress this year, President Obama plans to use his final State of the Union address Tuesday to try to set the agenda for his successor, insisting that if he can't win now, he will demand that voters keep it in mind as they select the next president.

January 10, 2016

Senate sluggish despite bipartisan deals, Washington Times Legislative Futility Index finds

Congress began to pull out of the legislative doldrums last year but still has a long way to go before it returns to full health and the kind of freewheeling legislative action of previous decades, according to The Washington Times Legislative Futility Index, which found that despite some big bipartisan deals, the Senate remains a major stumbling block to passing bills.

January 10, 2016

El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala violence surges, threatening new refugee flood

El Salvador and Honduras are locked in an unholy race for the world's highest homicide rate, with surging crime and drug violence across the region threatening to trigger an even larger surge of migrants seeking to get into the United States.

January 10, 2016

2015 sets new record for terror plots in U.S.

Last year saw the most terrorist attacks and plots in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, according to the Heritage Foundation's tally, which was released Friday just as the Obama administration announced a series of new terror-related arrests and indictments.

January 8, 2016

Democrats to demand new amnesty from Obama for Central Americans

Congressional Democrats are circulating a petition pressing President Obama to extend a new temporary amnesty to potentially millions of illegal immigrants from Central America, saying the violence in their home countries makes it too dangerous to continue deporting anyone to the region.

January 8, 2016

Homeland Security deports more than half of illegal immigrants caught in weekend raids

Homeland Security said Thursday night that it has already deported 77 of the 121 illegal immigrants it rounded up over the weekend as it tries to enforce the laws against Central Americans who jumped the border in 2014 and are flouting judges' orders that they be kicked out.

January 7, 2016

House set to vote for North Korea, Iran sanctions

House Republicans said they'll vote next week to slap new sanctions on North Korea and Iran to punish the rogue nations for continuing to develop their weapons programs, as they try to force President Obama to drop his more accommodating stance toward the two enemy nations.

January 7, 2016

Iraqi refugees arrested on terrorism charges

Authorities arrested two Iraqi refugees on terrorism-related charges Thursday, in a move that undercuts President Obama's plans to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to the U.S. this year.

January 7, 2016

Keystone pipeline lawsuit threatens Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership

This week's Keystone pipeline lawsuit may deliver the death blow to a seemingly unrelated Asian trade deal, with environmentalists and labor unions saying a Canadian company shouldn't be allowed to use international trade agreements to force changes in U.S. energy and environmental policy.

January 7, 2016

Bernie Sanders demands halt to deportations to Central America

Seeking to put distance between himself and President Obama, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernard Sanders fired off a letter Thursday demanding the administration halt its new round of raids designed to find and deport illegal immigrants who are ignoring judges' orders that they leave the country.

January 7, 2016

State Department misled on Hillary Clinton emails, investigation concludes

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aides knew about her secret email account but allowed the department to mislead the public about its existence, an inspector general said in a report Thursday that found widespread problems with transparency during Mrs. Clinton's tenure.

January 7, 2016

Obama immigration raids a potential ‘disaster’ for Hillary Clinton, Democrats

President Obama's new series of raids designed to arrest and deport illegal immigrant Central Americans could end up being a "disaster" for Democrats in the presidential election, pushing Hispanic voters to stay home rather than turn out to vote, activists said Wednesday.

January 6, 2016

Gary Johnson announces bid for president

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who washed out of the 2012 GOP presidential primary then ran as a Libertarian, capturing 1 percent of the vote in the general election, said Wednesday he'll try again.

January 6, 2016

Nikki Haley tabbed by GOP for response to Obama SOTU address

Republican leaders tapped South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to deliver their official response to President Obama's State of the Union address next week, giving the rising political star her biggest platform yet.

January 5, 2016

DHS says sweep of illegals has begun

Moving to belatedly counter a new surge of illegal border crossings, Homeland Security has launched a new effort to try to kick out new arrivals, Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday, defending a series of raids over the weekend that have enraged immigrant-rights activists.

January 4, 2016

New ‘secret’ message among Hillary Clinton’s emails as classification rate spikes again

The State Department has decided that yet another of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's emails contains "secret" information, and has classified hundreds more at a lower level of secrecy -- part of Thursday afternoon's release of more than 3,000 messages from her unique email arrangement.

December 31, 2015

State Dept. breaks judge’s deadline on Clinton emails

The State Department broke a judge's order on the number of former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails it was supposed to release Thursday, blaming the holiday season for throwing it off track.

December 31, 2015