Reuters - Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams was delayed at a Washington-area airport on Friday for a secondary security screening, a Homeland Security Department official said.

Lynda Fisher - AHN Staff Writer San Francisco, CA (AHN) - Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security secretary, said Friday that the U.S. government would assist California in patching up its fragile levee system. However, he did not declare the pre-emptive federal disaster declaration that Gov....

AP - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff pledged Friday that the government would help California patch its fragile levee system, but stopped short of promising the pre-emptive federal disaster declaration that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger seeks.

AFP - Tibetan exiles around the world go to the polls to elect a prime minister and a new parliament as their leader the Dalai Lama seeks greater autonomy for the Chinese-ruled homeland.

Carla Martin, the Transportation Security Administration lawyer who improperly contacted witnesses in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial, has been placed on paid administrative leave, Department of Homeland Security officials said.

AP - China is refusing to take back an estimated 39,000 citizens that have been denied immigration to the United States, clogging detention centers on the taxpayer's bill, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday.

Matthew Borghese - AHN Staff Writer Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense is before a Senate subcommittee to defend his department's response to Hurricane Katrina. McHale tells the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on Emerging Threats and...

AFP - The son of the late Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic was expected in The Hague to recover his father's body for burial in their Serbian homeland.

Reuters - A leading Republican opponent of the collapsed Dubai ports deal said on Sunday that he would press ahead with legislation requiring U.S. ownership of infrastructure deemed critical to homeland security.

Reuters - A leading Republican opponent of the collapsed Dubai ports deal said on Sunday that he would press ahead with legislation requiring U.S. ownership of infrastructure deemed critical to homeland security.

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Washington (AHN) - With college basketball championships underway around the country, the FBI has warned stadium operators of a possible suicide bomb attack at sporting events. The FBI and Homeland Security Department distributed an intelligence bulletin...

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Washington (AHN) - With college basketball championships underway around the country, the FBI has warned stadium operators of a possible suicide bomb attack at sporting events. The FBI and Homeland Security Department distributed an intelligence bulletin...

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Washington (AHN) - With college basketball championships underway around the country, the FBI has warned stadium operators of a possible suicide bomb attack at sporting events. The FBI and Homeland Security Department distributed an intelligence bulletin...

The Bloods, Crips, Disciples and an increasingly popular street gang known as MS-13 were among the gangs targeted in a Department of Homeland Security operation over the past two weeks that yielded 375 arrests of wanted members in 23 states, the department announced today. In Operation Community Shield federal authorities are, for the first time, using immigration and customs authorities in an attempt to dismantle what they call "transnational, violent street gangs." According to DHS, 260 of the 375 arrestees have past criminal records, and 73 face new charges ranging from drug and gun violations to re-entering the country after being deported. The others face deportation proceedings.

Migratory birds could carry the avian flu virus to U.S. shores in the next few months, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned Thursday.

Migratory birds could carry the avian flu virus to U.S. shores in the next few months, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned Thursday.

Migratory birds could carry the avian flu virus to U.S. shores in the next few months, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned Thursday.

Migratory birds could carry the avian flu virus to U.S. shores in the next few months, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff warned Thursday.

AP - A deadly strain of bird flu could appear in the United States in the next few months as wild birds migrate from infected nations, Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said Thursday.

Reuters - Two men have pleaded guilty to conspiring to secretly videotape Michael Jackson while the pop star flew on a private jet to surrender to child sex abuse charges in 2003.