Stephen Dinan

Trump asks Supreme Court to revive his plans for post office to police elections

President Trump asked the Supreme Court Monday to allow him to implement his executive order directing the U.S. Postal Service to police mail-in voting by refusing to deliver ballots to people whose eligibility hasn't been verified by the feds.

July 27, 2026

Oregon governor warns migrants to be wary of ICE impersonators

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek warned her state to be wary of ICE impersonators whom she said performed a traffic stop on a driver and roughed up the person, falsely claiming they were federal immigration officers.

July 27, 2026

Fauci fixated on fame as COVID deaths mounted, diary reveals

It was March 22, 2020, and the coronavirus pandemic was seriously biting, with more than 10,000 new cases and more than 125 new deaths -- and Dr. Anthony Fauci was obsessed with how much media attention he was getting.

July 27, 2026

Trump’s ‘anti-weaponization’ fund has become a roadblock for his attorney general nominee

President Trump's "anti-weaponization" fund has become the chief stumbling block to Todd Blanche's confirmation as attorney general, with key Republicans saying they cannot let him be approved until the $1.776 billion idea is fully eradicated.

July 26, 2026

Court upholds block on Trump plans to use post office to police election

A federal appeals court has rejected President Trump's attempt to revive his plans to have the U.S. Postal Service referee this year's elections by refusing to deliver ballots by mail unless states first verify the eligibility of the voters.

July 26, 2026

Noncitizen charged with illegal voting in Hawaii, said her uncle pressured her to cast ballot

A 19-year-old woman has been charged with illegally voting as a noncitizen after she cast a ballot in the 2024 election.

July 25, 2026

Founder of SCOTUSblog sentenced to 6 years in prison for tax evasion

Tom Goldstein, a lawyer who founded the widely read SCOTUSblog and lived a secret life as a high-stakes poker player, was sentenced to six years in federal prison for tax evasion and mortgage fraud.

July 25, 2026

Hung jury for Border Patrol charged by feds with unauthorized force against migrant

A jury acquitted a Border Patrol agent of concealing evidence and could not return a verdict on another charge accusing him of using too much force to subdue an illegal immigrant.

July 24, 2026

ICE nears 600,000 deportations since Trump took office

ICE is hitting its deportation stride under new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, averaging about 1,250 formal deportations a day over the last three months.

July 23, 2026

DHS has issued $84 billion in fines to illegal immigrants who won’t go home

Homeland Security has now issued fines to more than 100,000 illegal immigrants who have refused to leave the country even after being ordered out by an immigration judge.

July 23, 2026

House chairman asks DOJ to investigate Jack Smith for lying to Congress

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan made a criminal referral to the Justice Department on Wednesday, asking prosecutors to see if they can bring charges against former Special Counsel Jack Smith for cagey statements he made about obtaining lawmakers' text messages.

July 22, 2026

Hegseth’s new testosterone standard for troops could undercut military’s transgender ban, judge says

A federal judge suggested Wednesday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new policy requiring troops to meet testosterone levels -- and delivering testosterone replacement therapy -- could undercut the rationale behind the department's restrictions on trans troops.

July 22, 2026

Smithsonian museum director on hot seat over display of ‘crotch harness’

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History comes with a parental advisory warning, the museum's director told Congress on Wednesday, as she spent a second day struggling to defend a sexually charged exhibit that showed what one congresswoman called a "crotch harness."

July 22, 2026

Court overturns ruling that freed pro-Palestinian protester from immigration detention

A federal appeals court overturned a lower court ruling on Tuesday that had ordered a Palestinian immigrant released from immigration detention, saying the district court didn't have the authority to intervene.

July 21, 2026

Gov. Abbott announces Texas crackdown on ‘birth tourism’

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced his own crackdown Tuesday to try to block migrants who game the immigration system by having babies on U.S. soil, earning automatic citizenship for those children.

July 21, 2026

New Jersey finds 6,600 noncitizens registered to vote and hundreds voting

Thousands of noncitizens were added to New Jersey's voting rolls, and hundreds of them even cast ballots in the state's elections, Gov. Mikie Sherrill acknowledged Tuesday.

July 21, 2026

Republicans accuse Smithsonian of sexualizing kids with ‘woke’ bondage and fetishist exhibits

Sex-laced bondage and transgender imagery in exhibits at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History are sexualizing and traumatizing kids, Republicans charged Tuesday, telling the museum's director that she's using her post to elevate "woke" ideology over American greatness.

July 21, 2026

Woman tried to free migrant from ICE custody with tequila bribe: DOJ

A woman tried to bribe an official at an ICE detention center to release a migrant, offering gifts of money and tequila to try to spring the person free, federal prosecutors say.

July 21, 2026

Supreme Court term saw more ideological divides; Justice Jackson furthest to the left

The number of 6-3 ideologically split decisions at the Supreme Court rose this term with rulings on transgender athletes, the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance and several immigration decisions all being won by the conservative majority, according to a prominent court scholar.

July 20, 2026

Alligator Alcatraz shut down, state official says, after funding solves ICE’s detention site issues

Alligator Alcatraz is now gone, and all that's left is empty tarmac, Florida officials told a federal judge, saying the last immigration detainees left in mid-June and all operations have ceased at the detention center the state built in the Everglades.

July 20, 2026