Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Chief Justice Roberts grants reprieve to Backpage.com sex services website
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. granted at least a temporary reprieve Wednesday to one of the country's largest sex-services websites, saying he wants to take more time to hear arguments in a dispute over whether Backpage.com does enough to stop predators from sex trafficking. Published September 7, 2016
State Dept. releases first batch of deleted Hillary Clinton emails on Benghazi
The State Department has released the first of the emails recovered by the FBI that were handled by Hillary Clinton's secret email account, as the Obama administration and a conservative watchdog group sparred over whether the email metadata should be made public. Published September 7, 2016
UK to build wall to stop illegal immigration from France
The U.S. is still debating the value of fencing on its southwest border but the U.K. is moving forward, preparing to erect a 1 kilometer wall to protect the departure point from France to Britain, according to reports Wednesday. Published September 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s experience handling classified data contradicts unsophisticated excuse
Hillary Clinton wasn't a newcomer to secret documents when she reached the State Department. Published September 6, 2016
Donald Trump: I’d have canceled China visit over airport snub
Donald Trump said Tuesday that if China had mistreated him on the airport runway he would have refused to get off the plane and would have left the country. Published September 6, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s team may be guilty of obstruction of justice: GOP chairman
Hillary Clinton's aides may have obstructed justice by having her emails deleted, the top investigator for the U.S. House charged Tuesday in a letter asking the federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., to probe the matter. Published September 6, 2016
Illegal immigration debate undermined by sketchy government statistics
Donald Trump could get a head start on his promise to deport illegal immigrants if only the government knew how many are even in the U.S. Published September 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders calls on Hillary Clinton to ‘cease all contact’ with family foundation if elected
Sen. Bernard Sanders said Sunday that Hillary Clinton must cut ties with the Clinton Foundation, adding more pressure to the chorus of critics who say the former State Department secretary's entanglements are damaging her. Published September 4, 2016
Backpage.com loses bid to claim freedom of press shield against Congress
Backpage.com, one of the Internet's largest sex-service websites, lost its bid Friday to claim protection under the First Amendment when a federal appeals court ruled the company must turn over internal files to Congress. Published September 2, 2016
FBI publishes notes on Hillary Clinton’s use of private email
Hillary Clinton didn't know how secret information got to be classified, she told the FBI in her interview earlier this summer, according to documents released Friday -- showing a striking lack of awareness for someone at the highest reaches of government. Published September 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton didn’t press countries to take back their criminal aliens
Jean Jacques was fresh out of prison for attempted murder in 2012, and immigration agents wanted to deport him back home to Haiti -- but the island nation's government refused to take him back, saying it couldn't be sure Jacques was who he claimed to be. Published September 1, 2016
Donald Trump still plans to build border wall; Mexico’s Pena Nieto vows not to pay for it
To some, it's the friendship fence. To others, including, most famously, Pope Francis, it's an unneeded and un-Christian symbol of division. Published August 31, 2016
Mexican president disputes Trump, says he told GOP nominee he won’t pay for wall
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday evening that he kicked off his meeting with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump by saying Mexico won't pay for the border wall -- directly contradicting Mr. Trump's claim hours earlier. Published August 31, 2016
Donald Trump dials back rhetoric: ‘Great respect’ for Mexicans
Donald Trump vowed to hold the line on illegal immigration Wednesday but toned down his harsher anti-Mexican jibes as he strode onto the world stage, making his first visit with a foreign head of state and winning concessions on free trade. Published August 31, 2016
Government paid out benefits to deceased Americans
The government paid out more than $1.7 million in benefits to Americans who'd died years ago, and who the feds' chief personnel office knew were dead — but forgot to tell the Social Security Administration. Published August 30, 2016
IRS doesn’t tell 1 million taxpayers that illegal immigrants stole their Social Security numbers
The IRS has discovered more than 1 million Americans whose Social Security numbers were stolen by illegal immigrants, but officials never bothered to tell the taxpayers themselves, the agency's inspector general said in a withering new report released Tuesday. Published August 30, 2016
Hillary Clinton to explain to court who ‘recommended’ secret email account
Hillary Clinton will get a chance to explain why she continued to use her secret home email account for government business in defiance of repeated security warnings from her underlings -- just some of the 25 questions she'll have to answer, in writing and under oath, to a federal court. Published August 30, 2016
Obama Supreme Court recess appointment thwarted by Senate pro forma sessions
Twice a week since mid-July, the Senate has been going through the motions of gaveling into session, reading a brief announcement setting the date for the next meeting and then shutting down the floor. Published August 29, 2016
DHS ponders end to private prisons for illegal immigrant detainees
The Homeland Security Department may stop using private jails to detain illegal immigrants, Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday, taking his cue from the Justice Department, which announced earlier this month it was phasing out the use of private prisons. Published August 29, 2016
10,000th Syrian refugee arriving in the U.S.
The U.S. welcomed its 10,000th Syrian refugee Monday afternoon, achieving President Obama's goal with more than a month to spare in the fiscal year -- and there are some 30,000 more waiting in the wings and ready to be resettled if the administration can handle them. Published August 29, 2016
