Stephen Dinan

Call in the healers: Trump opponents struggle to cope with his second win

Some liberal activists seethed at President-elect Donald Trump's victory. Some pleaded for a white knight -- the news media or maybe judges -- to lead a new resistance over the next four years. Still others called in the healers.

November 6, 2024

Trump made stunning gains among young voters

President-elect Donald Trump made significant gains among young voters in the election, walking away with 44% support of those under 30 years of age, according to exit polling.

November 6, 2024

Americans search for options to flee U.S. after Trump win

Presumptive President-elect Donald Trump's historic election night has sparked a new interest in immigration -- but this time it's Americans looking to get out.

November 6, 2024

Liz Cheney accepts election results, urges media, judges to become ‘guardrails of democracy’

Former Rep. Liz Cheney, the onetime GOP leader who bolted to become one of Democrats' biggest cheerleaders this year, said Wednesday she accepts the results of the election -- but urged ongoing resistance "over these coming four years."

November 6, 2024

Trump sees ‘historic realignment’ as GOP points to record Latino vote; gains across map

Latino voters delivered big for the GOP this week, giving the party arguably its best-ever numbers at the presidential level and hinting at a lasting political realignment.

November 6, 2024

Trump wins record Hispanic support

Former President Donald Trump saw a massive surge in support from Hispanic voters with the two major media exit polls showing him with at least 43% of their votes.

November 6, 2024

Bomb threats, long lines at polls, but overall voting mostly proceeds smoothly across U.S.

Early Election Day hiccups added fuel to an inferno of distrust about the results and the possibility of a lengthy period of election legal challenges to follow.

November 5, 2024

How Trump broke America’s most important political dynasties

A genial consensus dominated Washington for decades that America's century of greatness was built on largely unfettered free trade, generous immigration and an aggressive foreign policy that positioned the U.S. as the worldwide enforcer of those norms.

November 5, 2024

Feds charge Michigan man with election-related threats after angry emails to pro-Harris PAC

The Justice Department on Tuesday announced it was bringing a criminal case against a Michigan man who sent angry emails complaining about the intensity of ads from a political action committee supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.

November 5, 2024

Atlanta paper forced to recant after calling Dustin Inman Society ‘anti-immigration hate group’

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution issued a lengthy correction this month after it published a story wrongly labeling an immigration enforcement group as an "anti-immigrant hate group."

November 5, 2024

Supreme Court to consider role of race in drawing Louisiana’s congressional districts

The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up cases challenging Louisiana's congressional districts, two of which were drawn to give Black voters primary political power in picking who wins those seats.

November 4, 2024

Biden’s lenient ‘catch-and-release’ parole programs and vetting failures spurred migrant crime wave

That illegal immigrants are committing crimes is nothing new, but many experts say there's something different about the last 3 1/2 years, in both the number and intensity of the crimes the country is seeing.

November 4, 2024

House GOP launches probe after FBI ‘quietly’ changed crime data

The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday demanded the FBI explain why it released crime data last year that seemed to back up President Biden's claims that violent crime had dropped, only to "quietly" revise the numbers this year.

October 31, 2024

Dead but not forgotten: States grapple with early voters who die before Election Day

More than 60 million voters have cast ballots in the election so far. And it's a grim reality that some of them have already died.

October 31, 2024

Supreme Court allows Virginia to remove suspected noncitizens from voter rolls

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to remove some 1,600 names of suspected noncitizens from its voter rolls ahead of next week's election.

October 30, 2024

Biden administration says Virginia can remove noncitizens from voter rolls — after election

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to uphold lower court rulings ordering Virginia to immediately restore 1,600 names to its voter rolls, but saying the state can remove them once the election is done.

October 29, 2024

Noncitizens are on the voter rolls — nobody knows how many

Alabama made a big splash this summer when Secretary of State Wes Allen announced he'd found 3,251 names on his state's voter rolls that he suspected of being illegal immigrants and had them moved to the inactive voter list. But things quickly began to unravel.

October 29, 2024

Eight states to vote on noncitizen voter bans

Election integrity groups have put citizen-only measures on the ballots in eight states this year.

October 29, 2024

Arson attack destroys hundreds of ballots at early-voting drop box in Washington, Oregon

Drop-off ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set afire early Monday, burning up already-cast ballots and sparking new worries over election integrity.

October 28, 2024

Federal official warns New York policies let dangerous criminals roam free

A top Homeland Security deportation official blasted New York for refusing to cooperate with a request to hold illegal immigrants for pickup, saying the city ended up releasing an accused sex trafficker back onto the streets.

October 28, 2024