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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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CIA nominee Gina Haspel is sworn in during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Gina Haspel says she never saw controversial tapes she deleted

Gina Haspel, the nominee to lead the CIA, said Wednesday that she did oversee destruction of 92 controversial tapes showing rough interrogations of suspected terrorists, but said her actions have been reviewed by three investigations and each of them found she acted properly. Published May 9, 2018

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen testifies before Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Activists sue to keep 350,000 would-be illegal immigrants in U.S.

Immigrant-rights activists said Wednesday they've now sued to stop the Trump administration from canceling special protections for 57,000 Hondurans in the U.S. who would otherwise be illegal immigrants, adding them into an already ongoing lawsuit over some 260,000 others from El Salvador and Haiti. Published May 9, 2018

Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., speaks at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the 2020 Census, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

DOJ ducks chance to defend citizenship question on census

President Trump has bragged about getting a question on citizenship in the 2020 census, so lawmakers on Capitol Hill were surprised Tuesday when a top Justice Department official skipped a hearing where he was supposed to defend the move. Published May 8, 2018

Police car lights. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

High school students ran drug, illegal immigrant smuggling rings in San Diego

A high school student in San Diego was charged Monday with running a smuggling ring that brought both illegal immigrants and drugs such as methamphetamine and the dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl across the U.S.-Mexico border, in the latest indication cartels are tapping youths to help their criminal schemes. Published May 8, 2018

Just-cut stacks of $100 bills make their way down the production line at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing's Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

CBO says April was best month in history for U.S. budget

The federal government took in a record tax haul in April en route to its biggest-ever monthly budget surplus, the Congressional Budget Office said, as a surging economy left Americans with more money in their paychecks -- and this more to pay to Uncle Sam. Published May 7, 2018

Central American migrants traveling with a caravan sit momentarily on top of the border wall during a gathering of migrants living on both sides of the border, on the beach where the border wall ends in the ocean, Sunday, April 29, 2018, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

DHS to push for criminal charges against all border jumpers

The Trump administration said Monday it will now pursue criminal charges against every migrant nabbed jumping the U.S.-Mexico border, putting serious teeth behind President Trump's goal of stiffening immigration enforcement. Published May 7, 2018

Suyapa Perez, of Chelsea, Mass., originally of Honduras, holds American and Honduran flags while demonstrating on May Day, Tuesday, May 1, 2018, in Everett, Mass. The demonstration was held to call attention to the plight of workers and immigrants, and to call for a higher minimum wage. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

DHS cancels special TPS protections for Honduran migrants

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Friday she will phase out special legal protections for 57,000 Hondurans who've been in the U.S. for nearly two decades, giving them 18 months to finish up their affairs and return home or else risk being deported. Published May 4, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Dallas, Friday, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: Vote out Democrats who back sanctuary cities

President Trump signaled Friday that he's going to drive the immigration issue straight into November's elections, telling voters to oust Democrats who voted to protect sanctuary cities and voted against stiffer penalties for repeat illegal immigrants. Published May 4, 2018

In this April 3, 2018, file photo, Central American migrants traveling with the annual "Stations of the Cross" caravan sleep at a sports club in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico. The group that led a monthlong caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States wanted to draw attention to the plight of people in the violent region. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

Caravan migrants say Donald Trump is discriminating against them

Migrants who came to the U.S. as part of the illegal immigrant caravan accused President Trump of discrimination this week, saying he ordered his Justice Department to prosecute people from Central America who jumped the border, while ignoring people from other countries such as India. Published May 4, 2018

In this June 13, 2016, file photo, the Rev. Patrick Conroy, chaplain of the House of Representatives, delivers an interfaith message on the steps of the Capitol in Washington for the victims of the mass shooting at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Paul Ryan allows Patrick Conroy to remain House chaplain

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday he will allow the the chamber's chaplain to serve out the rest of this Congress, backing down from his demand last month that the Rev. Patrick Conroy resign. Published May 3, 2018

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks about a lawsuit he filed against the federal government to end DACA during a press conference in Austin, Texas, on May 1, 2018. Paxton is leading a seven-state coalition in the lawsuit. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) **FILE**

Texas demands quick halt to DACA

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Wednesday he wants a federal court to rule the Obama-era DACA program illegal before the end of July, hoping to nail the door shut on the controversial program before any other judges can meddle with it. Published May 2, 2018

Protesters hold up signs during a rally supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, outside of the White House in Washington, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

New anti-DACA case draws favorable judge

Texas has already caught its first break in its new lawsuit to stop the Obama-era DACA program, after the case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen. Published May 2, 2018

Demonstrators rally in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) outside the Capitol, Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, in Washington, on the second day of the federal shutdown. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Texas leads a coalition of states suing to stop DACA

Texas led a coalition of states Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, opening up a new legal front in the increasingly messy battle over illegal immigration. Published May 1, 2018

Central American migrants sit on top of the border wall on the beach in San Diego during a gathering of migrants living on both sides of the border, Sunday, April 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Caravan members arrested after jumping U.S. border

At least 30 people from the illegal immigrant caravan had already been arrested for jumping the border as of Monday morning, border sources told The Washington Times, and the government filed the first criminal charges against them later in the day. Published April 30, 2018