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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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President Donald Trump walks into the Oval Office of the White House for a meeting with Mongolian President Khaltmaa Battulga, Wednesday, July 31, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump wins spending increase from Congress; GOP divided

Congress gave final approval Thursday to spending increases in 2020 and 2021, but it delivered a final black eye to President Trump when nearly half of Senate Republicans refused to back the deal he struck with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Published August 1, 2019

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the ranking member, prepare to take a break during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP power play clears path to approve asylum crackdown in Senate committee

Tensions reached a boiling point Thursday as Republicans powered a solution to the border crisis through a Senate committee, brushing aside objections of Democrats who said the extended powers of detention and limits to new asylum claims in the legislation were cruel. Published August 1, 2019

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., takes questions from reporters following a weekly policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer dismisses party split on health care

The Senate's top Democrat Wednesday papered over the deep divisions on health care that emerged in the previous night's presidential primary debate, saying the fight within his party is nothing compared to the gap between Democrats and Republicans. Published July 31, 2019

Former FBI Director James Comey is sworn in during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday, June 8, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

James Comey lost track of Trump memos, FBI evidence log says

Fired FBI Director James B. Comey told agents he appeared to have lost track of two memos he kept detailing conversations with President Trump, according to new documents revealed Wednesday by Judicial Watch. Published July 31, 2019

In this July 18, 2019, file photo, a migrant father and daughter sit on the sidewalk after getting off a bus that brought them all the way from Nuevo Laredo to Monterrey, Mexico. The group was placed on the bus by Mexican migration authorities, arriving in this northern Mexican city late at night and left them to fend for themselves with no support on housing, work or schooling for children, who appear to make up about half the group. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

ACLU: Illegal family separations still occurring at border

The ACLU said Tuesday that the Trump administration is still wrongly separating children from their parents at the border and asked a federal judge to order that kids be kept with adults even in cases when the government says there are serious health concerns or threats to the child's safety. Published July 30, 2019

In this Friday, April 5, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, Calif. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

ACLU asks 9th Circuit Court to speed border wall decision

Border wall opponents asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to speed up the case involving their challenge to President Trump's plans, saying the longer the judges wait, the more wall he'll be able to build. Published July 30, 2019

Former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Impeachment push stalls among voters: Quinnipiac poll

Voters believe President Trump is racist and did obstruct the investigation into the 2016 election -- but they still don't want to see Democrats begin impeachment proceedings against him, according to a new Quinnipiac University National Poll. Published July 30, 2019

Hundreds of people march in the Queens borough of New York in opposition to the Trump administration's plans to continue with raids to catch illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)

Immigrant-rights activists help defy ICE deportation orders

Immigrant-rights activists across the country pushing back against ICE, which earlier this month began an operation aimed specifically at illegal immigrant families who snuck across the border, had their cases heard in immigration courts, were ordered deported and are defying those orders. Published July 29, 2019

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Somali refugees arrested on terrorism charges

Two refugees from Somalia were arrested as they prepared to board a flight from Arizona to Egypt, where they planned to join the Islamic State, federal authorities announced Monday. Published July 29, 2019

United States Border Patrol officers return a group of migrants back to the Mexico side of the border as Mexican immigration officials check the list, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Mexico has received some 20,000 asylum seekers returned to await U.S. immigration court dates under the program colloquially known as "remain in Mexico." (AP Photo/Salvador Gonzalez)

DOJ tightens asylum rules for people fleeing violence

Being part of a family that's harassed by a gang isn't enough on its own to qualify for asylum, Attorney General William P. Barr ruled Monday, in the latest effort by the administration to put a cap on the expanding universe of asylum claims. Published July 29, 2019

In this Dec. 16, 2018, file photo, Honduran asylum seekers are taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, Calif., in this view from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

Supreme Court rules Trump can begin border wall construction

The Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Friday for President Trump to begin border wall construction while a legal battle rages in lower courts over his emergency wall-building declaration from earlier this year. Published July 26, 2019

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2019. Trump announced that Guatemala is signing an agreement to restrict asylum applications to the U.S. from Central America.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. inks deal to send asylum-seekers back to Guatemala

President Trump inked a deal with Guatemala on Friday to crack down on migrants who cross that country's territory en route to the U.S. to claim asylum, with Guatemala's government agreeing to take them back. Published July 26, 2019