Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
State officials tout voter roll cleanups after 2020 election, clash over noncitizen voting
State election officials showed up on Capitol Hill last week to talk about preparations for November's vote, and suddenly a "top this" competition broke out. Published September 15, 2024
Minnesota deactivates 1,000 ineligible voters, including noncitizens
Minnesota elections officials said they kicked about 1,000 names off their active voter rolls this week after a challenge by the Republican National Committee. Published September 13, 2024
Feds arrest woman from violent pro-Hamas protest at Union Station
Federal authorities arrested a Maryland woman Friday and charged her with defacing a monument near the Capitol during the pro-Palestinian rally protesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress in July. Published September 13, 2024
Data backs up Trump on crime increase, violence up under Biden-Harris administration
Crime rates remained elevated last year under President Biden, according to Justice Department data released Thursday that challenges a prevailing media and White House narrative. Published September 12, 2024
Appeals court orders halt to first-ever U.S. betting market on American elections
Kalshi, a financial exchange platform, opened the first American-based betting market on U.S. elections Thursday after a federal judge rejected regulators' attempts to shut it down. Published September 12, 2024
DHS proposes another two-year delay in full Real ID compliance
The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it wants to start prodding people to use Real ID-compliant identification next year but will grant another two-year delay before fully mandating its use. Published September 12, 2024
DHS designates Electoral College vote count as special national security event
Homeland Security on Wednesday officially designated the Electoral College vote count and certification as a special national security event, putting the U.S. Secret Service in charge of security surrounding the process. Published September 11, 2024
Politics, pets and cat memes: Trump won’t bury rumors on Haitian immigrants
Sen. J.D. Vance acknowledged that reports of Haitian migrants in Ohio eating dogs and cats may not be accurate, but former President Donald Trump injected the issue straight back into the political bloodstream hours later in Tuesday's debate. Published September 11, 2024
Ohio attorney general backs claims about Haitians eating geese
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost weighed in Wednesday in defense of former President Donald Trump's claims of Haitian migrants eating pets by saying there is a credible claim that they are capturing geese for food. Published September 11, 2024
Trump talks migrants eating pets, Harris ducks immigration question
Former President Donald Trump elevated claims of migrants in an Ohio town eating dogs and cats to the national stage Tuesday, saying it was more evidence of the chaos from President Biden's border management. Published September 10, 2024
Trump says he’ll send Harris a MAGA hat
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris has tacked so far toward his own positions on immigration and other policies that he is "going to send her a MAGA hat." Published September 10, 2024
Assassins keep cartels in control of migrants; U.S. operations ‘already rooted’
Congress heard horrifying testimony Tuesday about a network of assassins associated with Mexican cartels and operating in the U.S. Published September 10, 2024
Biden abandoned 90% of Afghan allies in Kabul evacuation, House report finds
As the Taliban fighters were closing in on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, American diplomats stared at a pile of passports they had collected from Afghan allies who had assisted the war effort and were seeking a special visa to get them out of harm's way. Published September 9, 2024
DOJ issues warning as GOP states try to clean noncitizens from voter rolls
The Justice Department issued a warning to states Monday to tread lightly in trying to clean up their election systems of bogus names and ineligible voters, firing a shot across the bow of GOP-led states that have been trying to erase noncitizens from their rolls. Published September 9, 2024
U.S. authorities charge ‘Terrorgram’ leaders with fomenting global White supremacist attacks
Federal prosecutors announced charges Monday against two people associated with "Terrorgram," an online network of White supremacists that encouraged attacks on Black, gay and immigrant targets, as well as assassinations of high-ranking American officials. Published September 9, 2024
Fraud plagues Biden ‘parole’ program: Michelle Obama’s passport used; dead people named sponsors
Gang members and scammers using dead people's names were applying to be sponsors for President Biden's fraud-riddled immigration "parole" program that has welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, The Washington Times has learned. Published September 9, 2024
IRS recovers $1.3 billion from rich people who ducked taxes
The IRS has now clawed back $1.3 billion from the country's wealthiest taxpayers using initiatives launched after President Biden won historic funding increases for the tax agency. Published September 6, 2024
Appeals courts increasingly skeptical of gun controls in wake of Supreme Court rulings
It's been a busy summer for federal judges as they've wrestled with the Second Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Court's significant but confusing string of gun rulings over the last few years. Published September 5, 2024
Taxpayer-funded Biden road signs don’t violate Hatch Act
President Biden's self-promoting road signs bragging that he secured taxpayer money for infrastructure projects don't cross the line into illegal campaign activity, the government's chief Hatch Act watchdog has concluded. Published September 5, 2024
Navy secretary slapped with Hatch Act violation for urging Biden’s reelection
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro got too political earlier this year when he used a trip to Britain to urge the reelection of President Biden and to denigrate former President Donald Trump -- and ended up violating the Hatch Act, the government's Office of Special Counsel has concluded. Published September 5, 2024
