Crews were slowly and carefully removing gas cylinders from the site of a deadly explosion at an under-construction power plant, and investigators interviewed survivors to try determine the cause.
The nation's intelligence chief said Wednesday that the Christmas Day airline bombing suspect should have been treated as a terrorism detainee when the plane landed. That would have meant initial ...
Urban Search and Rescue teams from the United States are helping to lead rescue efforts in Haiti in the aftermath of an earthquake that devastated the nation's capital. The Virginia-based USAR ...
Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night
With gadgetry such as custom-built ramps (above), ultralight planes, false doors and good old-fashioned duct tape, drug smugglers have demonstrated unbounded creativity on the Mexican border. ...
The just-announced merger of the National Security Council (NSC) and the Homeland Security Council (HSC) has the potential to generate major change in how the federal leadership looks at the ...
MEXICO CITY — Deep inside a heavily guarded military warehouse, the evidence of Mexico's war on drug cartels is stacked two stories high: tens of thousands of seized weapons, from handguns and ...
WASHINGTON — The Geneva-based World Health Organization on Wednesday raised its alert level for the fast-spreading swine flu to its next-to-highest notch, signaling a global pandemic could ...
VERMONT — He went from driving a cab in Boston to piloting multimillion-dollar cargo vessels around the world.
Now Capt. Richard Phillips is at the center of a high seas-piracy drama after ...
The U.S. has sent a large contingent of federal agents to its southern border to help stem the recent violence in northern Mexico. A top Homeland Security official told a House panel that Mexican ...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama tapped Florida emergency manager Craig Fugate to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency, turning to a Republican appointee who has steered the Southern ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-New Orleans, said Wednesday that he and his staff are investigating widespread complaints of discrimination, sexual harassment, ethics violations, nepotism ...
LONG BEACH, Calif. — With a police helicopter flyby, the Port of Long Beach on Monday gave an airborne salute to the opening of a high-tech security facility designed to protect the second-largest ...
WASHINGTON — The first federal evaluation of mass-transit security shows that more than 75% of the nation's major rail and bus systems aren't meeting Homeland Security guidelines. The assessment ...
