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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan

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

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Elon Musk attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Pool via AP) **FILE**

Appeals court blocks judge’s order for Musk, DOGE to turn over records

A federal appeals court halted a lower court's order that had directed Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to submit to legal discovery and turn over records about its operations, ruling Wednesday that the judge was too quick to allow it. Published March 26, 2025

A ghost gun that police seized from an organized shoplifting crime ring is on display during a news conference at the Queens District Attorney's office in New York City, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey) **FILE**

Supreme Court upholds Biden-era requirements on ghost guns

The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave the federal government the green light to regulate firearms kits -- also known as ghost guns -- as weapons, meaning they must have serial numbers and that buyers must undergo background checks. Published March 26, 2025

Ramzi Kassem, third from right, a lawyer representing Yunseo Chung, talks to reporters outside a federal courthouse in New York, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Judge blocks DHS from arresting, deporting Columbia student protester

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday telling the Trump administration not to arrest Yunseo Chung, an immigrant from South Korea who said she has become a target since she was arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest earlier this month. Published March 25, 2025

A pedestrian walks by the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

GSA slashes must-sell property list from 443 to 8

The General Services Administration has cut its target list of non-core properties it wants to dump from 443 down to just eight -- all of which had previously been identified as targets by the previous administration. Published March 25, 2025

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2010, file photo, the headquarters of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is seen with U.S., RFE/RL and the Czech Republic flags in the foreground in Prague. The heads of three federally-funded international broadcasters were abruptly fired late Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, as the Biden administration completed a house-cleaning of Donald Trump appointees at the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Two officials familiar with the changes said the acting chief of the USAGM summarily dismissed the directors of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks just a month after they had been named to the posts. (Michal Kamaryt/CTK via AP, File)

Court blocks Trump’s attempt to close Radio Free Europe

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday protecting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from being shut down by President Trump, saying the government was too hasty in its attempt to shutter the outlet. Published March 25, 2025

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, joined at right by CIA Director John Ratcliffe, answer questions as the Senate Intelligence Committee holds its worldwide threats hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Intel leaders say leaked Signal chat didn’t include classified info

Trump officials on Tuesday described the leak of a high-level discussion about attacks on Houthi rebels in Yemen as a "mistake" but said the president's critics were blowing the incident out of proportion to undercut the success of the airstrikes themselves. Published March 25, 2025

In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP) ** FILE **

Trump invokes ‘state secrets’ to hide deportation details from court

President Trump on Monday invoked the "state secrets" doctrine to block the release of any more information about controversial deportation flights that carried more than 200 Venezuelan gang suspects to El Salvador earlier this month, despite a judge's orders to turn the planes around. Published March 24, 2025