Stephen Dinan

Mexico’s president blames U.S. for arming cartels

President Trump's tariff threat has spurred a commitment from Mexico to stiffen its northern border but Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is also walking away with a major win for her country: a promise by the U.S. to stem the flow of guns heading south.

February 3, 2025

Judge slams Trump over ‘nationwide panic,’ orders feds to restart spending

President Trump's frantic pace of executive action is beginning to create problems in federal courts, where judges say he's gone too fast and too furious.

February 3, 2025

Crying and coping: Left struggles with Trump’s aggressiveness

Two weeks into President Trump's forceful return to office, progressives find themselves struggling to cope with his unprecedented shock-and-awe onslaught against the battlements they erected over the last four years.

February 2, 2025

Trump rides high in polls as early actions prove popular with voters

Voters are giving President Trump strong marks for many of his early executive actions -- particularly those aimed at reversing his predecessor and gaining control of the border.

January 31, 2025

Watchdog says DOJ broke law by removing database on Jan. 6 defendants

A watchdog has challenged the Trump Justice Department's decision to erase the government's main database of Jan. 6 defendants from the web, saying it amounted to an illegal destruction of an official record.

January 30, 2025

Kash Patel says FBI needs to ditch politics, get back to fighting crime

Kash Patel, President Trump's pick to lead -- and upend -- the FBI, came to Capitol Hill on Thursday eager to talk about the future of the bureau as a lean, crime-fighting machine.

January 30, 2025

N.Y. county ramps up sanctuary battle in defying criminal warrant for ‘violent illegal alien’

The Justice Department unloaded Thursday on a New York county after authorities say it released a "violent illegal alien" back into the community, defying a federal criminal arrest warrant signed by a magistrate judge.

January 30, 2025

Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI nominee, described racist threats against him

As Democrats accused Kash Patel on Thursday of cavorting with racists, the nominee to lead the FBI responded by telling them of the vicious racism he has personally faced.

January 30, 2025

Trump signs Laken Riley Act; law pushes DHS to detain criminal migrants

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, giving Homeland Security more legal tools to take even relatively low-level criminal illegal immigrants off the streets.

January 29, 2025

Trump to send 30,000 illegal immigrants to Guantanamo Bay

President Trump said Wednesday he will sign an order directing the Defense Department to use up to 30,000 beds at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold illegal immigrants.

January 29, 2025

For the first time in office, Trump doesn’t face the threat of impeachment

President Trump's political opponents have called him cruel and authoritarian and dictatorial. They've accused him of rewriting the Constitution and trampling on basic rules of government. But one thing that's been missing in all the early vitriol over his first 10 days is the I-word.

January 29, 2025

Comer launches bid to rightsize government, brings Iowa model to federal reform push

House Oversight Chairman James Comer will hold a hearing next week to explore how the federal government got so big, as he moves to add some legislative heft to President Trump's goal of slashing the bureaucracy down to size.

January 29, 2025

Trump’s spending pause? Biden did it first

President Trump's decision to hit pause on billions of dollars in federal spending spawned an avalanche of complaints from his opponents on Tuesday.

January 28, 2025

Noem says Homeland Security Dept. is Trump’s No. 1 priority

New Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem challenged her employees Tuesday to be a "beacon of freedom."

January 28, 2025

Quakers sue to stop ICE arrests, say churches must be sanctuaries

Several Quaker groups have filed a lawsuit against Homeland Security, demanding it restore a sanctuary policy that largely prevented immigration agents from making arrests at or near churches. The Quakers say the latest moves trample on their First Amendment rights.

January 28, 2025

ICE arrests pass 4,500 since Trump took office

Homeland Security's deportation force made nearly 1,000 more arrests Monday and has now apprehended more than 4,500 illegal immigrants since President Trump took the reins of government.

January 28, 2025

ICE arrests nearly 1,200 on Sunday including 67 Tren de Aragua gang members

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tallied nearly 1,200 arrests on Sunday, including 67 members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, marking the biggest roundup yet under President Trump.

January 27, 2025

House opens investigation into four sanctuary cities

House Oversight Chairman James Comer announced probes Monday into four sanctuary cities, calling on them to come before Congress and defend themselves.

January 27, 2025

D.C.’s new U.S. attorney launches review of Jan. 6 obstruction charge shot down by Supreme Court

President Trump's new U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., announced an investigation Monday into how the office used a now-discredited law to go after Jan. 6 defendants.

January 27, 2025

D.C. judges rail over Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons; Tanya Chutkan calls it a ‘whitewash’

President Trump may have pardoned the Jan. 6 defendants but some of the Democrat-appointed judges who presided over the cases are furious at having to let them go.

January 27, 2025