Stephen Dinan

Oddsmakers betting big on Trump a week from election

While opinion polls in the 2024 election are just now starting to swing toward Donald Trump, the online political gambling markets have been betting big on the former president for weeks.

October 28, 2024

Virginia asks Supreme Court for permission to remove suspected noncitizens from voter rolls

Virginia begged the Supreme Court on Monday to step in and allow the state to carry out its removal of 1,600 names of suspected noncitizens from its voting rolls.

October 28, 2024

Judges shoot down Youngkin’s attempt to cleanse Virginia’s voter rolls

Federal judges have ordered Virginia to restore roughly 1,600 names to voting rolls, shooting down Gov. Glenn Youngkin's attempt to cleanse the lists of people the state believes to be ineligible noncitizens.

October 27, 2024

Pennsylvania county flags 2,500 voter registrations as potentially fraudulent

Officials in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, identified thousands of potentially fraudulent voter registrations made just before the state's preelection deadline.

October 25, 2024

Judge blocks Virginia’s noncitizen voter purge, orders 1,500 names restored to election rolls

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vowed an appeal Friday after a federal judge ordered the state to restore 1,500 names to its voting rolls, saying officials were too hasty in declaring them noncitizens.

October 25, 2024

How the border surge upended a small Wisconsin town

To its residents, Whitewater, Wisconsin, was a sleepy college town of about 15,000 -- until a thousand migrants arrived in 2022 and 2023, straining the community's resources beyond the breaking point.

October 24, 2024

Appeals court tosses sentence for anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti

A federal appeals court on Wednesday tossed one of anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti's prison sentences, saying a lower court was too harsh on him.

October 23, 2024

‘Stunning security failure’: U.S. agents miss Venezuelan gang tattoos in scan for refugee approvals

Homeland Security greenlighted refugee applications for Venezuelan gang members after immigration officers failed to spot their gang tattoos, The Washington Times has learned.

October 23, 2024

Migrants rushing north, hoping Harris wins election

Migrants planning their journey to the U.S. are cheering for Vice President Kamala Harris to win the presidential election, figuring they'll get a better shake from her, according to a border expert.

October 23, 2024

Inside job: California official took bribes to steer pandemic relief money

A county supervisor in Orange County, California, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal felony bribery charge after collecting $550,000 to steer $9 million in pandemic relief funds to a charity that was supposed to provide meals to the elderly.

October 22, 2024

Border improved as Biden adopts Trump-style policies

The Biden administration tallied more than 2.9 million illegal entries into the U.S. over the last year, marking a slight improvement on 2023's record, though things were trending better in recent months.

October 22, 2024

IRS standard deduction, income tax levels rise in 2025

Inflation may be taking more out of workers' pay, but it also has a silver lining with the taxman, as the IRS announced Tuesday that it is hiking the standard deduction by $400 and raising the maximum payment for key tax credits next year.

October 22, 2024

Social Security employee charged with trying to sexually exploit unemployed client

A Social Security employee in Massachusetts has been arrested on charges of using his job to try to recruit a woman for paid sex.

October 22, 2024

Supreme Court rebuffs attempt to defend tougher Biden asylum rules

The Supreme Court on Monday shot down GOP-led states' attempt to defend President Biden's tougher rules governing asylum seekers, leaving the administration free to negotiate a weaker compromise with immigrant rights advocates.

October 21, 2024

Harris vies with Trump on securing U.S. border; policies veer from longtime rhetoric

The biggest difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump lies in how they would approach the millions of illegal immigrants already here -- including an estimated 4 million that have arrived and settled on Ms. Harris's watch.

October 21, 2024

Biden ends fiscal year with $1.8 trillion deficit; gross interest payments top $1 trillion

The federal government just notched its worst non-pandemic deficit in history, spilling more than $1.8 trillion worth of red ink across the budget and signaling even worse times to come.

October 18, 2024

Jack Smith files huge docs in Trump election fraud challenge

A federal court on Friday unsealed documents detailing some of the evidence special counsel Jack Smith is relying on in his prosecution of former President Donald Trump over his handling of the 2020 election.

October 18, 2024

New FBI data shows crime increased, even as Biden said it dropped

The FBI's latest data shows police reports of violent crime rose from 2021 to 2022, contradicting the bureau's previous assertions and undercutting the narrative President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have offered that public safety was improving.

October 17, 2024

Afghan accused of Election Day plot wasn’t fully vetted

The Afghan man accused of plotting an Election Day massacre was not fully vetted before being allowed into the U.S., according to a media report Wednesday.

October 16, 2024

Liberal justices question San Francisco in EPA fight over water pollution limits

One of the nation's most liberal enclaves ran into pushback from the liberal wing of the Supreme Court on Wednesday as San Francisco battled the EPA over how the city's wastewater spills into the Pacific Ocean.

October 16, 2024