The Trump administration said it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a signature campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about potential for ...

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The White House is throwing its support behind a plan to transfer the U.S. Secret Service back to the Treasury Department to better focus on the growing threat of online financial crimes. Shifting the agency from within the Department of ...

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The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon to fund the construction of 270 miles of border wall this year as part of a counter-drug effort, according to defense officials. The officials said the request came in Wednesday, and ...

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The Department of Homeland Security is agreeing to share citizenship information with the U.S. Census Bureau as part of President Donald Trump’s order to collect data on who is a citizen following the Supreme Court’s rejection of a citizenship question ...

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The Department of Homeland Security issued a security alert Tuesday for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft. An alert from the DHS critical infrastructure computer ...

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The recent attempt to blow up another plane over American soil was a side note to Christmas for my day filled with toddler toys and making the Legos look like what’s on the outside of the box. The snow in ...

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The ability of a suspected terrorist to bring explosives on board a U.S. plane exposes vulnerabilities in an aviation security system that had been overhauled and strengthened since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian, was ...

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They took away my wife’s Sensodyne toothpaste at the airport. We were flying down to Manhattan to see “Hamlet,” so I suppose the thought could have been that an outraged retired schoolteacher might attack the Statue of Liberty with a ...

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Call your malpractice carrier. You’re being sued by the wife and children of a permanent resident who was just deported back to some hell-hole of a country. You told him the deferred-prosecution deal you worked out for him would not ...

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