WASHINGTON -- Carmen Pittman is 23 years old and weighs 100 pounds. She was the smallest of the activists linking arm-in-arm in front of the Departmen...

Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, believes that President Barack Obama is building an armed force in the Department of Homelan...

How did violence in our country become an epidemic? Let's investigate what might have helped to trigger that escalation; first we need to review the d...

WASHINGTON — Republican senators criticized border security provisions in a new immigration bill Tuesday, arguing that the landmark legislation ...

America is only four months into the second term of Barack Obama and already one of its most promising industries is suffering from a pair of grossly obtuse government agencies who have banded together to aid a foreign state-owned company at the expense of domestic firms.

WASHINGTON -- The inspectors general of the Central Intelligence Agency, the Intelligence Community, the Department of Justice and the Department of H...

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) thinks the federal government will stop at nothing to abridge America's Second Amendment rights. The federal government is s...

Yesterday, President Barack Obama attended both the opening of President George W. Bush's presidential library and the memorial service for those who ...

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, The ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (neh-pahl-ih-TAN'-oh) is directing her agenc...

(Adds officials pleading not guilty in sixth paragraph) By Jared Taylor MCALLEN, Texas, April 10 (Reuters) - Two agents with the U.S. Depar...

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 (Reuters) - The second-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said she wi...

HOUSTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says a new congressional budget should ease the need to furlough or cut overtime hours fo...

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department expects applications for high-skilled immigration visas to outpace the available supply in a matte...

WASHINGTON -- There's a long-simmering tension between President Barack Obama's administration and immigrant rights advocates, who support his views, ...

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Obama administration contradicted itself Thursday, acknowledging to Congress that it...

The sequester is simply more proof that our government is putting bank bailouts, military contracts and corporate tax loopholes above the needs of their constituents. And it will only get worse until we throw them out.

PADUCAH, Ky. -- Despite extensive warnings from the Obama administration over the effects of sequestration budget cuts on air traffic control staff, t...

WASHINGTON -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that the release of 2,000 undocumented immigrants from detention ...

The reality is that this is the right time to be questioning how we will pay for maintaining over 34,000 immigration detention beds at an average cost of $164 per night during a fiscal crisis, which is threatening to shut down critical components of Defense and Homeland Security.

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 undocumented im...

WASHINGTON -- Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), an immigration hardliner who signed into law one of the toughest anti-unauthorized immigration laws in the ...

Once upon a time, "homeland" was a word of little significance in the American context. There was a reason: "homeland" had a certain ring to it and anyone would have known at once just what that ring, that resonance, was.

Despite sucking up a sum of money that could have rebuilt crumbling infrastructure from coast to coast, this new agency and the very concept of "homeland security" have largely flown beneath the media radar -- with disastrous results.

WASHINGTON -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials insisted on Wednesday that there was no connection between the retirement of Enforcement a...

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R), like several other Republicans, went after President Barack Obama on Wednesday for the decision by Immigration and Custom...