Stephen Dinan

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks about border security during a briefing at the White House, Thursday, May 11, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

House probe accuses Mayorkas of flouting 12 laws and court orders

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has flouted at least a dozen laws or court orders related to immigration, a House committee charged Wednesday in a new report that lays the groundwork for impeachment proceedings. Published July 19, 2023

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus pandemic investigation of the origins of COVID-19, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘Parental discretion is advised’: MTG introduces photos of Hunter Biden sex acts at hearing

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held up photos of Hunter Biden engaged in sex acts with an alleged prostitute at a congressional hearing Wednesday and said it was evidence that he had violated a federal law prohibiting transporting someone across state lines for sex. Published July 19, 2023

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, walks from Marine One upon arrival at Fort McNair, June 25, 2023, in Washington. The Republican chairmen of three key House committees are joining forces to probe the Justice Department's handling of charges against Hunter Biden after making sweeping claims about misconduct at the agency. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

IRS agents say Justice Department brass nixed felony charges against Hunter Biden

Federal prosecutors had agreed to bring felony tax charges against Hunter Biden but higher-ups at some point reduced those to two misdemeanors, an IRS special agent told Congress on Wednesday. Published July 19, 2023

The Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington is photographed early in the morning on May 14, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Feds use pandemic fraud charges to bust Step or Die street gang

They got Al Capone on tax evasion, and now federal prosecutors have managed to bust up a Louisiana street gang by charging two dozen people with pandemic benefit fraud. Published July 19, 2023

Migrants walk along concertina wire as they try to cross the Rio Grande at the Texas-U.S. border in Eagle Pass, Texas, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Texas denies ordering police to push migrants back into the Rio Grande

Texas officials on Tuesday vehemently denied a new press report that they had ordered police to push illegal immigrant children back into the Rio Grande and refused to give water to those who make it across the river from Mexico. Published July 18, 2023

Migrants wait in line adjacent to the border fence under the watch of the Border Patrol and Texas National Guard to enter into El Paso, Texas, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday will begin denying asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through, according to a new rule released Wednesday, as U.S. officials warned of difficult days ahead as a key limit on immigration is set to expire.(AP Photo/Andres Leighton)

Illegal immigration cools at southern border as Biden policies take hold

Illegal immigration at the southern border has dropped to its lowest levels since just after President Biden took office, with Customs and Border Protection reporting fewer than 145,000 encounters with unauthorized migrants in June. Published July 18, 2023

People line up against a border wall as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border from Mexico Tuesday, July 11, 2023, near Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Defense Department sitting on 20,822 unused border wall panels

The Defense Department revealed Tuesday that it has more than 20,000 unused border wall panels in storage that it is trying to dispose of after President Biden halted construction. Published July 18, 2023

A United States flag flies behind the border fence that divides Mexico and the U.S., in Tijuana, Mexico, Nov. 21, 2018. Nearly a thousand migrants that recently crossed from Guatemala into Mexico formed a group Saturday, July 15, 2023, to head north together in hopes of reaching the border with the United States. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Vanishing act: DHS admits that 40% of catch-and-release migrants disappeared

ICE failed to deliver immigration court summonses to more than 80% of illegal immigrants caught and released under the Biden administration's "parole" program just before the end of the Title 42 pandemic border policy, according to new statistics the government submitted to a federal judge. Published July 18, 2023

A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A., File)

Illegal immigrant kids with tuberculosis infections released into 44 states

The government is releasing thousands of illegal immigrant children with latent tuberculosis infections into America's communities, with no assurances they will get treated. Published July 18, 2023

Hunter Biden talks with guests before President Joe Biden offers a toast during a State Dinner for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

FBI agent confirms IRS agents’ testimony on interference in Hunter Biden probe

A supervisory special agent at the FBI has confirmed a key element of IRS agents' testimony that they were blocked from interviewing Hunter Biden as part of their investigation into his criminal activities, Republicans' top investigator said Monday. Published July 17, 2023

Martha Williams (center), director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, talks with Jimmy Laurent (left), regional energy coordinator for U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and Thomas Harris, secretary for the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, as they visit the B-5 orphan well site in the Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge in Lottie, La., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Dozens of scientists from universities across the nation are challenging whether Williams has the education needed to run an agency in charge of managing endangered species. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) **FILE**

GOP bill would shut down Biden administration’s ‘ecogrief’ training

House Republicans are moving to derail the Biden administration's "ecogrief" training for federal employees, attaching language to a spending bill that would bar the Interior Department from offering the classes to its employees. Published July 16, 2023

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers at the Nogales Port of Entry is shown during a press conference Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

Sen. James Lankford calls for reinforcements to stop drugs at border

Stopping fentanyl at the border often means spotting packages concealed as cargo in vehicles at border crossings -- but the government is struggling just to man the scanning machines. Published July 12, 2023

An immigrant considered a threat to public safety and national security waits to be processed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the ICE Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles, after an early morning raid, June 6, 2022. The Supreme Court said Friday, June 23, 2023, that it will no longer stand in the way of a long-blocked Biden administration policy to prioritize the deportation of immigrants who are deemed to pose the greatest public safety risk or were picked up at the border. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

ICE released a repeat child sex offender who is now accused of raping a 13-year-old girl

The Biden administration has made a point of trying to deport immigrants with sex offenses on their records, so it's surprising that they never went after Ransford Perry. Published July 11, 2023

Cat held in cage for experiments. (File photo credit: Michal Durinik via Shutterstock)

Lawmakers ask VA to stop ‘cruel’ experiments on cats

Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough approved an experiment last year to implant sensors for a prosthetic hand into cats -- a move that members of Congress say is "at odds" with new federal laws meant to limit the government's use of dogs, cats and primates in experiments. Published July 11, 2023

Central American migrants, part of the caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, get a ride on a truck carrying rolls of steel rebar, in Irapuato, Mexico, Nov. 12, 2018, after a month on the road. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) **FILE**

DHS opens new pathway for Central American migrants to reach U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security has opened a new avenue for migrants from Central America to reach the U.S. without skirting the border, announcing the start Friday of a parole program that will let people jump the green card line and enter earlier. Published July 7, 2023

Voters cast their ballots inside the Bismarck Event Center main arena in Bismarck, N.D., on Oct. 27, 2020. Some poll workers in North Dakota who created confusion and frustration in the spring 2022 primary by demanding proof of United States citizenship particularly from immigrants and people of color had no power to do that, the state attorney general said Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. (Mike McCleary/The Bismarck Tribune via AP) **FILE**

State’s expanded voting rules test federal Election Day law

Activists are challenging the expansion of Election Day into a full election season with a new lawsuit aimed at trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle. Published July 6, 2023

People protest outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Race in college admission essays could spark new legal battles, court watchers say

The man who led the lawsuit that upended universities' race-based affirmative action policies warned schools against trying to find a workaround by asking Black and Hispanic applicants to focus on their race or ethnicity in their admission essays. Published July 6, 2023

Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas, May 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Overwhelmed Border Patrol releases terrorism suspect into U.S.: Federal audit

The Border Patrol caught a terrorism suspect at the southern border but was too overwhelmed by the surge of migrants to properly flag the person and instead released the person into the country, according to a new government audit. Published July 5, 2023

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, walks from Marine One upon arrival at Fort McNair, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Washington. The Biden's are returning from Camp David. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Prostitutes for Hunter Biden cross legality line

Tucked deep within IRS criminal investigators' testimony about Hunter Biden is the revelation that the Justice Department, in addition to probing tax and gun crimes, was also collecting data to charge the president's son with transporting prostitutes across state lines. Published July 5, 2023

In this Jan. 12, 2015, photo, a supermarket displays stickers indicating they accept food stamps in West New York, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Food stamp errors soar since pandemic onset; 10% overpaid

The food stamp program was slammed with fraud and bungling during the pandemic, leading to the highest rate of "improper payments" on record last year, according to new government data. Published July 4, 2023

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