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With the specter of political violence looming, the Department of Homeland Security has advised hundreds of communities on election safety. Luzerne County, Pa., is at the center of the unrest. [...]

With each cascade of digital disaster, new vulnerabilities emerge. The latest chaos wasn't caused by an adversary, but it provided a road map of American vulnerabilities at a critical moment. […]

The department has a division that often directs inquiries into sex trafficking allegations, like those cited in recent lawsuits against Mr. Combs. The raids of Sean Combs's homes in Los [...]

A small group of Republicans joined Democrats in voting to defeat a motion by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia to immediately impeach the homeland security secretary. A small band [...]

Officials are bracing for an increase in illegal border crossings as Title 42, a pandemic-era health policy that allowed officials to expel migrants quickly, ends on Thursday. A day before [...]

The hearing further solidified the expectation that the secretary, Alejandro N. Mayorkas, will continue to hear threats of impeachment if the G.O.P. wins the majority in the House. WASHINGTON -- [...]

Immigration courts in New York State already had a backlog of 180,000 cases, before 21,000 new migrants arrived this summer. It was just past dawn, but people were already crowding [...]

Decisions to bus migrants to the vice president's residence and to fly others to Martha's Vineyard were the latest attempts to provoke outrage over record arrivals at the border. EDGARTOWN, [...]

Numerous federal agencies agree that widely promoted falsehoods threaten the nation's security. Doing something about them is another matter. WASHINGTON -- The memo that reached the top of the Department [...]

Congressional hearings this week offered a preview of Republican attacks on the Biden administration's immigration policies as the midterm elections approach. WASHINGTON -- Republicans on Capitol Hill offered a preview [...]

Officials are bracing for the number of interceptions at the border to rise much higher if a public health order that has limited immigration during the pandemic is lifted. WASHINGTON [...]

New accounts show that the former president was more directly involved than previously known in plans developed by outside advisers to use national security agencies to seek evidence of fraud. [...]

The diplomat, Daniel Foote, was appointed special envoy to Haiti in July, just weeks after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated. WASHINGTON -- The senior American envoy for Haiti policy said [...]

The U.S. will begin flying migrants back to Haiti and other countries on Sunday as President Biden struggles to manage an immigration system already buckling under record migration. WASHINGTON -- [...]

An internal report by the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office cited concerning internet chatter ahead of the rally supporting the suspects in the Jan. 6 riot. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

The department's inspector general delayed looking into a retaliation complaint by a former intelligence chief until after the 2020 election, according to officials and a whistle-blower. The Department of Homeland [...]

The administration is under intensifying pressure to expand its capacity to care for as many as 35,000 unaccompanied minors, part of a wave of people crossing the border. WASHINGTON -- [...]

The administration has taken a series of steps to prioritize dealing with white supremacists and militias, especially after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. WASHINGTON -- The Biden administration is [...]

The issue of violent extremist groups in the United States has come to the top of the agenda since a mob of far-right groups stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. [...]

A group of federal, state and local officials working with a Department of Homeland Security agency declared flatly that the election was the most secure in the nation's history. WASHINGTON [...]

Members of Congress and the D.H.S. are investigating claims by a nurse and lawyers that immigrant detainees in Georgia were complaining of unwanted procedures and rough treatment. The Department of [...]

The department's leaders declined to publish a memo describing Russian attempts to question Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s health, prompting new scrutiny of political influence at the department. WASHINGTON -- The [...]

If you're an officer of the law, dress like one. Leave the soldiering to soldiers. Masked men, clad indistinguishably from soldiers, yanking civilians off the street in the dead of [...]

For days, as fireworks and tear gas erupted in the streets of Portland, Ore., during the deployment of federal tactical teams cracking down on raucous demonstrations, President Trump campaigned against [...]

A former leader of the department says Trump is politicizing the agency and putting the nation at risk. The Trump administration's deliberate decision to intervene in the Portland protests with [...]

Federal agents are venturing blocks from the buildings they were sent to protect. Oregon officials say they are illegally taking on the role of riot police. PORTLAND, Ore. -- After [...]

From Minneapolis to Buffalo, Homeland Security officials dispatched drones, helicopters and airplanes to monitor Black Lives Matter protests. GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- The Department of Homeland Security deployed helicopters, airplanes [...]

New restrictions have made it close to impossible to send cars from the state overseas, and a busy industry has ground to a halt. Several times a month, ships loaded [...]

The Department of Homeland Security said it would begin testing on hundreds of thousands of immigrants in federal detention facilities. The Trump administration is moving to collect DNA samples from [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security is beginning to address white supremacist terrorism as a primary security threat, breaking with a decade of flagging attention after bigoted mass shooters [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Oval Office meeting this past March began, as so many had, with President Trump fuming about migrants. But this time he had a solution. As White House [...]

The Department of Homeland Security is broadening its focus to include battling white supremacist attacks. Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of homeland security, has a cold. ''I won't shake your [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a regulation to allow it to indefinitely detain migrant families who illegally cross the border. The rule replaces a decades-old court agreement [...]

Last year, as part of an effort to carry out President Trump's promise of ''extreme vetting'' of visitors to the United States, the Department of Homeland Security began collecting social [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security has pulled federal agents from airports, from legal border crossings and from deep inside the United States and reassigned them to the southwestern [...]

CARACAS -- The United States banned all air transport with Venezuela on Wednesday over security concerns, further isolating the troubled South American nation by severing one of its last links [...]

WASHINGTON -- In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing [...]

The Census Bureau will tap Department of Homeland Security files on millions of immigrants, including noncitizens, as part of its data collection for the 2020 census, bureau officials said Thursday. [...]

The deployment of active-duty United States troops at the border with Mexico will most likely be extended through September, the Pentagon said Monday.The Pentagon's border mission had previously been scheduled [...]

EL PASO -- At a migrant shelter near the Mexican border, three girls from Guatemala -- sisters aged 10, 9 and 6 -- coughed and sniffled. One of them clung [...]

American border officers sent tear gas into Mexico early Tuesday to drive away about 150 migrants trying to cross the border into the United States, the authorities said. In a [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security formally asked the Pentagon on Friday to extend the mission of active-duty troops on the southwest border through the end of January.If Defense [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security was so unprepared for the Trump administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy that its computer systems were unable to track family members separated at the [...]

The Trump administration has taken another step in its program to use fear and cruelty to drive out legal, as well as illegal, immigrants. On Saturday, the Department of Homeland [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The Trump administration, faced with a public outcry over the separation of migrant families at the Southwest border, has said it is exploring a major expansion of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security was not prepared to enforce the first version of President Trump's travel ban when it was announced a year ago and was largely [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is seeking new authority to acquire land near the Southern border with Mexico as part of its plan to quickly build immigration barriers, angering activists [...]

WASHINGTON -- A new report concludes that a Department of Homeland Security pilot program improperly gathers data on Americans when it requires passengers embarking on foreign flights to undergo facial [...]

WASHINGTON -- Dozens of countries, mostly in Europe, must meet additional security requirements for their citizens to continue to be allowed into the United States without a visa, the Department [...]

In the heart of Flatbush, Brooklyn, past the bright Haitian takeout corner spot, with its aroma of richly fried pork, and down the block from La Difference driving school, an [...]