Department of Homeland Security

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.

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.

Officers at a Dartmouth detention center used excessive force when they deployed pepper spray, police dogs and a flash bang device against inmates who refused to be tested for COVID-19, according to a state report released Tuesday. In a scathing report, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office determined that the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office violated the civil rights of federal...

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...

Officials in Chelsea, Massachusetts, are warning the public after fraudulent documents threatened some residents with deportation. The alarming notice, falsely claiming to be from the Department of Homeland Security, targeted immigrants in the city. Police are telling residents it’s a scam. “Evidently, there was some type of fraudulent communication that was put together by someone or some group that...

Police in Chelsea are warning the public after fraudulent documents threatened some residents with deportation.

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.”

Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and his deputy, Ken Cuccinelli, are ignoring the input of career officials at the Department of Homeland Security on key policies from immigration enforcement to protest response, two current and two former DHS officials said.

Peter Vincent served as a prosecutor in the Department of Homeland Security when it was first founded in 2003. He also served in the DHS under former President Obama. He tells LX that the Trump Administration has been using law enforcement agencies as “political pawns” during the ongoing protests.

More than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy saying international students cannot stay in the country if they take all their classes online in the fall.

A federal court Tuesday night upheld a challenge to the Trump administration’s asylum restrictions, namely a 2019 rule that requires seekers to ask for asylum closer to home.

As President Donald Trump imposes sweeping entry restrictions in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus — and considers still more — he’s relying on an agency to help implement them that has been hollowed out at the top ranks in a revolving door of leadership, potentially hampering his administration’s response to the crisis, NBC News reports.