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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. (AP Photo, Alex Brandon)

Facebook assisting Mueller probe into Trump 2016 campaign

Facebook is working with special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Trump campaign interactions with Russian operatives during the 2016 election, company founder Mark Zuckerberg told Congress on Tuesday. Published April 10, 2018

Robert Mueller. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Dems demand bill to protect Mueller after Trump comments

Democrats warned Tuesday of a "constitutional crisis" if President Trump were to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, and demanded Congress move quickly to approve legislation that would take the decision out of the president's hands. Published April 10, 2018

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Muslim group sues to block Trump terrorism report

Two anti-Trump organizations filed a lawsuit Monday arguing that a government report earlier this year linking immigrants to most of the country's terrorism cases since 2001 is so misleading that it violates federal law. Published April 10, 2018

FILE - In this June 20, 2008, file photo, members of the 200th Red Horse Air National Guard Civil Engineering Squadron from Camp Perry in Ohio, including Tech Sgt. David Hughes, right, and Tech Sgt. William Bunker, second from right, work on building a road at the border in Nogales, Ariz. President Donald Trump said April 3, 2018, he wants to use the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Environmental group asks appeals court block Trump wall

Environmental groups on Monday demanded a federal appeals court step in and block President Trump from building any new fencing on the southwest border, saying the administration has outstripped its legal bounds in waving dozens of laws to speed up construction. Published April 9, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, Monday, April 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trillion-dollar deficits come roaring back under Donald Trump

Republicans' tax cuts and the new spending bill Congress approved last month will send the economy surging this year to 3.3 percent growth -- but will also send the deficit soaring back to the record levels of the early Obama years, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday. Published April 9, 2018

President Trump reviews prototypes for his proposed border wall constructed outside San Diego, California, shown here earlier this month with Rodney Scott, the Border Patrol's San Diego sector chief. (Associated Press)

DHS to build 20-mile wall along border in New Mexico

Homeland Security began building a border wall in New Mexico on Monday, moving to replace vehicle barriers and outdated mesh fencing with a modern wall that will deter pedestrians attempting to cross in the remove desert west of El Paso. Published April 9, 2018

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., is shown in this file photo from Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Man threatened to kill GOP lawmaker to defend Mueller probe: Feds

A Virginia man threatened to kill a Republican congressman while saying he was trying to defend special counsel Bob Mueller's probe into the Trump administration, prosecutors said Friday in announcing federal charges against the man. Published April 6, 2018

Central American migrants traveling with the annual Stations of the Cross caravan march to call for migrants' rights and protest the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump and Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State, Mexico, Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Bogged down by logistical problems, large numbers of children and fears about people getting sick, the caravan was always meant to draw attention to the plight of migrants and was never equipped to march all the way to the U.S. border.(AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Feds announce ‘zero tolerance’ policy for illegal immigration

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday ordered federal prosecutors to take a "zero tolerance policy" toward illegal immigrants nabbed at the U.S.-Mexico border, saying they should be prosecuted to the fullest extent possible. Published April 6, 2018

The White House is seen at dusk in Washington on Nov. 19, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

High-skilled visas go fast; Feds reach cap for H-1B program in one week

It took less than a week for businesses to snap up all 85,000 of the high-skilled visas available for 2019, the Trump administration said Friday, announcing that it has already received more than enough petitions to account for all of the H-1B visas it's allowed to give out next year. Published April 6, 2018

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 3, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Conservatives spot new tactic to bypass Senate filibuster

Some of the conservative movement's biggest names urged President Trump Thursday to use NAFTA negotiations as a way to get around a Democratic filibuster and push through major cuts to government regulations. Published April 5, 2018