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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., listens to President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech, at the Capitol in Washington. In Omar's Minnesota district, both Jews and Muslims voiced concern about an inflammatory tweet on Israel that had the congresswoman apologizing within hours. While some Jews said she was being unfairly judged, others said they feared she was being slow to learn from previous criticism. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Ilhan Omar-inspired anti-Semitism resolution irks liberal activists

Her colleagues are rushing to condemn her on the House floor this week, but Rep. Ilhan Omar has her backers among powerful progressive activist groups who say they don't understand why Democratic leaders are going out of their way to cut down one of their own. Published March 5, 2019

A Honduran migrant grabs his son as they climb the U.S. border fence before jumping into the U.S. to San Diego, Calif., from Tijuana, Mexico, Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many Central American migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves in to border patrol agents. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Illegal immigration at worst rate since 2007

The number of families snared trying to sneak into the U.S. soared by 50 percent in one month alone, setting an all-time record with more than 36,000 family members apprehended, Homeland Security officials announced Tuesday. Published March 5, 2019

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat, signaled the pair's influence in his investigation by personally announcing their arrival to the committee as consultants. If there are to be impeachment charges, they would originate with his committee. (Associated Press)

Jerrold Nadler, Democrats bid to take down Donald Trump

Congressional Democrats demanded Monday that the president let them interview the translators who were there for his unorthodox meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as Democrats expanded their election-season attempt to paint Mr. Trump as a criminal. Published March 4, 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, looks over towards U.S. President Donald Trump, left, as Trump speaks during their joint news conference at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

House Dems demand access to Trump’s translator from Putin talks

House Democrats sent a letter Monday demanding the White House turn over any documents that detail communications between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin -- and also demanded access to the U.S. president's translator for those talks. Published March 4, 2019

President Donald Trump hugs the American flag as he arrives to speak at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2019, in Oxon Hill, Md., Saturday, March 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrats pull trigger on document demands from Trump

House Democrats fired off 81 document requests to people in President Trump's orbit Monday, launching the beginnings of an effort they say is intended to spot crimes -- and could result in impeachment. Published March 4, 2019

President Trump is the overwhelming choice for the 2020 Republican nomination, according to a Washington Times/CPAC straw poll, which found more than 80 percent support. Mitt Romney, the party's 2012 nominee, was far behind at 6 percent support. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump steers CPAC message in new direction

Two years into the Trump presidential experiment, there's no longer any doubt that the conservative movement has been redefined by President Trump, leaving him with a fiercely loyal base of support as he prepares for a 2020 re-election campaign in perhaps the most hostile environment in modern political history. Published March 3, 2019

The official 2019 CPAC Straw Poll shows the vast majority of attendees at the conservative conference back the president's emergency declaration authorizing spending on the border wall. (American Conservative Union)

CPAC straw poll: Biden biggest threat to Trump

Conservatives view former Vice President Joseph R. Biden as the "biggest threat" to President Trump in the 2020 election, according to Saturday's Washington Times/CPAC straw poll. Sens. Bernard Sanders and Kamala Harris were a distant second and third. Published March 2, 2019

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., tells reporters at her weekly news conference she's glad Trump didn't go along with North Korea's nuclear demands, but she feels Kim Jong-Un was the "big winner" on the world stage for having another summit with the U.S. president, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. Pelosi said (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems ponder rules change as party unity crumbles

Stung by ongoing defections on some key votes, House Democrats are pondering a quick rules change that would limit the GOP's chances to offer its own amendments to bills -- a move the top Republican said would amount to "a nuclear option." Published February 28, 2019

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., speak to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Chuck Schumer praises Donald Trump for ditching North Korea talks

President Trump's decision to walk away from a bad nuclear deal with North Korea won exceptional praise from Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, who said Thursday the president deserves credit for being willing to forgo a weak agreement. Published February 28, 2019

"We learned that schools in the United States — from kindergarten to college — have provided a level of access to the Chinese government that the Chinese government has refused to provide to the United States," said Sen. Rob Portman, chairman of the investigative subcommittee. (Associated Press)

‘Confucius Institutes’ on U.S. campuses spur Senate investigation

China has invested more than $150 million over the last decade to establish propaganda-spewing Confucius Institutes at American colleges and universities, using the ostensible cultural centers as a tool to stifle debate in the U.S. about the communist regime's policies, according to a new Senate investigative report Wednesday. Published February 27, 2019