Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security has begun implementing a strategy to gather and analyze intelligence about security threats from public social media posts, DHS officials said.

The discovery was made at a truck stop when a nearby driver notice something suspicious and called the police.

The Biden administration says four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited in the United States this week.

The Department of Homeland Security will again delay the requirement for air travelers to have a Real ID-compliant form of identification by Oct. 1, pushing the deadline back 19 months, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced Tuesday.

The Department of Homeland Security will again delay the requirement for air travelers to have a Real ID-compliant form of identification

The Department of Homeland Security has announced an internal review to address the threat of domestic violent extremism within the sprawling agency.

U.S. officials discovered last December that federal agencies had fallen victim to a cyberespionage effort pulled off largely through a hack of SolarWinds software

NBC News reports The Department of Homeland Security, created after the 9/11 attacks to protect the country from international terrorism, is moving toward a sweeping set of policy changes aimed at detecting and stopping what intelligence officials say is now a top threat to the homeland: domestic violent extremism. Two senior Biden administration officials told NBC News that DHS, whose intelligence...

The Homeland Security Department has issued a national terrorism bulletin warning of the lingering potential for violence from people motivated by anti-government sentiment after President Joe Biden’s election

The Biden administration late Wednesday ordered a pause on some deportations for 100 days starting no later than Friday as it reviews enforcement policies, NBC News reports.

The Department of Homeland Security has expanded a special designation that will increase security in the District to maximum levels in advance of the inauguration. The National Special Security Event designation was scheduled to take effect next week, the day before the inauguration. Instead, it will begin Wednesday. It basically brings together all available resources in a coordinated effort to…

The Department of Homeland Security expanded a special designation that will increase security in the District to maximum levels in advance of the inauguration. Investigative Reporter Jodie Fleischer spoke with a threat assessment expert about what that entails and whether it’s enough given the current threats.

Before this week, few people were aware of SolarWinds, a Texas-based software company providing vital computer network monitoring services to corporations and government agencies around the world.

The Trump administration says it’ll allow migrants from six countries to extend their legal U.S. residency under a temporary status for nine months while courts consider its effort to end the program

A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class of migrants brought to the United States illegally as children is invalid. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Trump administration wrongly tried to shut down protections...

A former Trump administration official who penned a scathing anti-Trump op-ed and book under the pen name “Anonymous” is making his identify public

Federal law enforcement officials were directed to make public comments sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with fatally shooting two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, according to internal Department of Homeland Security talking points obtained by NBC News.

A whistleblower complaint and a tight timeline are making it increasingly unlikely that the Senate will confirm Chad Wolf as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security before the November election

An official at the Department of Homeland Security says he was pressured by agency leaders to make his intelligence reports reflect the priorities of the Trump administration

In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office said the top leaders of the Department of Homeland Security were not appointed through a legitimate process. Peter Vincent, a former DHS official, told LX News that the Trump Administration’s failure to go through the traditional process to appoint those leaders shows a “disdain for the rule of law.”