Stephen Dinan

Judge issues injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship plans

A federal judge issued an injunction Thursday blocking the government from carrying out President Trump's attempt to limit birthright citizenship.

February 6, 2025

ICE hits limit on detention beds, releases migrants

Homeland Security's deportation agency has bumped up against its detention bed space limit and has begun to release illegal immigrants.

February 6, 2025

Trump administration sues Illinois, Chicago over sanctuary policy

The U.S. government filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the sanctuary policies in Illinois and Chicago, arguing they are unlawfully interfering with federal authorities' ability to arrest and deport illegal immigrants.

February 6, 2025

NYC fraud investigator ran scam to steal homeless identities

Olabanji Otufale was a New York City fraud investigator, tasked with probing to make sure people applying for homeless services were actually homeless. But he ended up deep in fraud himself.

February 6, 2025

Biden agency misled over the extent of ‘ecogrief’ training

New documents reveal the extent of the Biden administration's "eco grief" workshops, in which U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees were encouraged to channel feelings of ecological anxiety into "lifesaving changes" for the planet.

February 5, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency adopts ‘Gulf of America’ label

The Environmental Protection Agency has leapt to comply with President Trump's renaming efforts, declaring Wednesday that its Gulf of Mexico program is now officially the Gulf of America division.

February 5, 2025

‘No threat to public safety’: Federal agents being wasted on arresting illegal immigrants, Dems say

Congressional Democrats begged the Justice Department to stop lending law enforcement agents and officers to Homeland Security to help with President Trump's deportation push, saying it's taking them away from "true public safety threats."

February 5, 2025

Venezuelan gang members become first migrants shipped to Guantanamo Bay

Homeland Security shipped its first planeload of illegal immigrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, with officials saying the plane carried members of Venezuela's vicious Tren de Aragua gang.

February 4, 2025

Federal workers strategize how to get the most out of Trump’s buyout offer

President Trump's federal worker buyout may backfire in some cases, giving employees who were going to quit anyway months of extra pay.

February 4, 2025

Homan threatens to prosecute N.J. governor over harboring migrant

White House border czar Tom Homan threatened federal smuggling charges against New Jersey's governor, who said he's harboring a migrant at his home.

February 4, 2025

Illegal immigrant used stolen ID to vote, buy guns while hiding in Florida: Feds

An illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic has been charged with voter fraud after authorities say he stole an American citizen's identity and voted in a federal election in Florida.

February 4, 2025

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