Stephen Dinan

DHS cancels ‘another gender’ option on immigration applications

Homeland Security's citizenship agency on Wednesday said it removed its "another gender" option from immigration forms, reversing a Biden policy and once again leaving applicants to pick between "male" and "female."

April 2, 2025

Trump forced to bring back fired feds on telework

President Trump has railed against federal employees who telework, but his administration said it has been forced to allow dozens of employees to work remotely after it prematurely eliminated their offices.

April 1, 2025

Border Patrol sets new record with low border crossings

The Border Patrol detected just 7,181 illegal immigrants attempting to sneak into the U.S. across the southern border in March, the White House border czar said Tuesday, marking the lowest monthly total in records dating back decades.

April 1, 2025

NIH bans six Chinese labs from animal experiments with U.S. funding

The National Institutes of Health has quietly booted a Chinese lab that performed grisly experiments on beagles from its list of facilities approved for animal experiments using U.S. taxpayer money.

April 1, 2025

House opens probe into Washington state sanctuary policies

House Republicans on Tuesday announced an investigation into sanctuary policies in Washington state, which the lawmakers portrayed as among the most egregious in the nation.

April 1, 2025

Judge blocks Trump from ending amnesty for 350,000 migrants

A federal judge on Monday ordered Homeland Security to keep in place a deportation amnesty for 350,000 Venezuelan migrants who were about to lose their status, saying the Trump administration seemed to be acting on "negative stereotypes."

March 31, 2025

Trump deportation order echoes Carter; review of students from Middle East sparks legal battles

A president signs an executive order sending immigration officers out to track down foreign students amid unrest in the Middle East, getting some to leave on their own and threatening to deport others.

March 31, 2025

U.S. deports more Tren de Aragua gang members to El Salvador

The Department of Homeland Security carried out more deportations of migrants to El Salvador on Sunday night, ousting members of the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs whom the government identified as "violent criminals."

March 31, 2025

No Democrats allowed: Trump takes over bipartisan commissions such as FTC, NLRB

President Trump doesn't plan to appoint any Democrats to such decision-making panels as the National Labor Relations Board and the Federal Election Commission in his second term, the Washington Times has learned.

March 30, 2025

Trump goes on offense in courts, sues to end union protections for 1 million feds

Pummeled by a wave of legal challenges, the administration went on offense, filing its own federal lawsuit to carry out President Trump's new executive order against public sector labor unions.

March 29, 2025

‘Charade’: Federal judge spanks Trump over attempt to wind down consumer watchdog

A federal judge delivered a nasty rebuke Friday to the White House, ordering it to stop trying to wind down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

March 29, 2025

Judge blocks deportation of foreign student arrested for Palestinian support

A federal judge on Friday ordered the government not to report a foreign student from Turkey.

March 28, 2025

Appeals court backs Musk, Trump in fight over shutting down USAID headquarters

A federal appeals court delivered a win to Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency on Friday, ruling that shutting down the headquarters and website of the U.S. Agency for International Development could go forward.

March 28, 2025

Appeals court allows Trump firings of Democratic appointees

President Trump's power to fire got a boost Friday when a federal appeals court hit pause on two lower court rulings that had blocked him from ousting Democratic appointees from agency boards.

March 28, 2025

Judge puts new crimp in Trump deportation plans with limits on third-country removals

A federal judge slapped new restrictions on President Trump's deportation efforts, ruling that he can't change the destination of migrants' removal without giving them a chance to argue against it in court.

March 28, 2025

Judge extends blockade on Venezuelan gang deportations

Judge James Boasberg has stretched his stoppage of President Trump's ability to deport Venezuelan gang suspects as alien enemies, ordering the administration not to try to oust anyone until at least April 12.

March 28, 2025

Trump asks Supreme Court to restart deportation of Venezuelan gang suspects

President Trump's lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to allow him to begin deporting Venezuelan gang suspects he's deemed terrorists and "alien enemies," saying lower court blockades are interfering with core presidential powers.

March 28, 2025

Arrest of pro-Palestinian graduate student goes viral

Video showing the arrest of a Turkish graduate student in Massachusetts who has supported anti-Israel causes has gone viral and drawn condemnation from immigration groups that said it smacked of authoritarianism.

March 27, 2025

Judge orders Trump team to preserve pre-attack Signal chat; feds say they were already doing it

The first round in the legal battle over leaked Signal chat messages about the U.S. attack on Houthi rebels fizzled Thursday as a judge ordered the government to do what it said it's already trying to do: preserve the records in accordance with the law.

March 27, 2025

ICE lost track of tens of thousands of migrant kids, inspector general says

The government's deportation agency lost track of tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children who were released into communities and disappeared, the agency's inspector general reported Thursday.

March 27, 2025