Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Social Security to go broke in 10 years, forcing Washington’s hand on retiree crisis
Social Security's trust fund insolvency is looming in Congress' windshield now that the Congressional Budget Office has reported that it will run out of money in 2032. Published February 20, 2023
DOJ tells justices not to erase legal protections for Big Tech
The Justice Department says social media companies like YouTube and Twitter shouldn't be held liable for hosting other people's content, but also says the tech giants may cross lines when they insert themselves into the situation by deciding what to promote. Published February 17, 2023
McCarthy says Sinaloa cartel is now biggest employer in southern Arizona county
The Sinaloa cartel is now the biggest employer in Cochise County, Arizona, because it hires so many people to smuggle people and drugs, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Thursday. Published February 16, 2023
Father charged with kidnapping daughter to force her into marriage in Yemen
Federal authorities have charged a father and son with spiriting their daughter and sister out of the country and holding her captive in Yemen, where they tried to force her into a marriage. Published February 16, 2023
ChatGPT acknowledges bias, ‘real limitations’ in artificial intelligence tool
The people behind the groundbreaking ChatGPT acknowledged Thursday that the artificial intelligence tool sometimes delivers results that are "politically biased, offensive or otherwise objectionable." Published February 16, 2023
Supreme Court cancels oral argument on Title 42 border policy
The Supreme Court on Thursday canceled oral argument in a case seeking to challenge President Biden's cancellation of the Title 42 pandemic border expulsion policy. Published February 16, 2023
Immigrants in workforce surge under Biden; native-born lag behind
More than 2 million new immigrants have arrived to take jobs in the U.S. since 2019, according to a new study released Thursday that challenges a growing chorus of voices arguing the country needs more immigrants to keep the economy humming. Published February 16, 2023
Texas AG mounts legal challenge to Pelosi’s designated voter scheme
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a lawsuit Wednesday to unravel the 2023 spending bill Congress approved late last year, saying too few lawmakers showed up in person to vote on the measure for it to be valid. Published February 15, 2023
Texas asks court to halt Joe Biden’s border ‘parole’ plan
Texas asked a federal judge Wednesday to issue an injunction halting President Biden's new program offering to admit up to 30,000 migrants a month under a new "parole" policy, saying the administration invented a new immigration procedure without permission from Congress. Published February 15, 2023
A world of hurt: Workshops aim to help federal employees cope with ‘ecogrief’
The Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service is offering "ecogrief" training to employees who are struggling with a sense of trauma or loss as they witness a changing environment. Published February 15, 2023
Biden and inflation added $3.1 trillion to federal deficit, CBO reports
President Biden and the Democrat-led Congress helped add $3.1 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday, delivering a depressing picture of the government's finances and the economy. Published February 15, 2023
Sen. Joni Ernst calls on HHS to permanently bar Wuhan virus lab from getting U.S. money
The Chinese virology lab that some analysts blame for igniting the coronavirus pandemic has been stripped of its U.S. funding, but Sen. Joni Ernst said it has not been blacklisted to make sure it can't get federal money in the future. Published February 14, 2023
Illegal crossings at northern border ‘historic’
Temperatures may have dipped to below zero along the U.S.-Canada border last month, but the pace of illegal immigration was overheated as people poured across the less-protected boundary. Published February 13, 2023
ChatGPT went to Congress, became a pro-choice, anti-gun liberal; refused to write conservative bills
The intelligence might be artificial, but the bias is real. Published February 13, 2023
Border numbers plummet as Biden’s new strategy kicks in
Homeland Security Department officials took a victory lap Friday after seeing illegal border crossings plummet in January, saying a new program to convert crossings into legal arrivals appears to be working. Published February 10, 2023
House votes to overturn D.C.’s illegal immigrant voting plan
A bipartisan House voted Thursday to block the District of Columbia's new plan to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, with lawmakers saying the city was crossing dangerous lines in trying to expand its pool of voters. Published February 9, 2023
Democrats discount pandemic fraud, fear it will taint government programs
As Republicans work to expose massive amounts of fraud in pandemic assistance programs, Democrats are responding with a feverish rearguard defense, saying that whatever the level of waste, millions of people were saved by the government's money. Published February 8, 2023
Biden slams ‘Big Lie’ politics for endangering Paul Pelosi
President Biden on Tuesday blamed what he called the "Big Lie" for last year's attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and pleaded for bipartisan condemnation of political extremism. Published February 7, 2023
Biden breezes by border crisis, pleads for bipartisanship on immigration
President Biden gave only the briefest of mentions Tuesday to the chaos at the southern border, acknowledging "problems" but saying his policies have finally begun to eat into record numbers of migrants coming from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela. Published February 7, 2023
Border Patrol leaders say they need more border wall, gaps leave the country vulnerable
Two senior Border Patrol chiefs told Congress on Tuesday that they need more border barriers because they help shape and control the flow of illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the U.S. Published February 7, 2023
