The Department of Homeland Security said a new report of a threat of a car or truck bomb attack in New York City or Washington was “specific, credible, but unconfirmed.”

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Bomb Threat Tied to 9/11 Anniversary Is Investigated

One of the biggest annoyances of air travel in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, world may soon be a thing of the past: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that air passengers will eventually be able to keep their shoes on while passing through airport security checkpoints — but that restrictions on carrying liquids are likely to continue for some time. “You’re going to see better technology over time” that will make it easier to keep your shoes on, but Napolitano would not specify exactly when the changes would occur or what technology is making the process easier. Read full article > >

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Napolitano: Keeping shoes on during airport screening coming — eventually

As forces loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi retreat, they have left a trail of evidence about how his regime operated. The BBC’s Orla Guerin gained access to Col Gaddafi’s homeland security headquarters.

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VIDEO: Gaddafi’s secrets: Inside security HQ

Department of Homeland Security officials have to keep many secrets in the fight against terrorism. Nick Nayak, the department’s top buyer, wants to reverse that practice when dealing with the department’s contractors. For Homeland Security’s $13.4 billion in annual purchases, “the next generation is open, transparent — much more communication with industry upfront,’’ Nayak said in an interview at his Southwest Washington office. Nayak, 46, left a nearly 20-year career at the Internal Revenue Service to become Homeland Security’s chief procurement officer last September. He is pushing the department’s program managers to talk more with potential vendors about what DHS needs to reduce security threats and respond to disasters. The conversations should happen before and after the agency issues contract requests, Nayak said. Read full article > >

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DHS’s chief buyer pushes for more transparency in contracts

The Department of Homeland Security is going to prioritize all 300,000 pending deportation cases. Low on the list would be veterans and military personnel, crime victims and people “brought into this country as young children.”

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U.S. to review 300,000 pending deportation cases

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow many illegal immigrants facing deportation the chance to stay in this country and apply for a work permit, while focusing on removing from the U.S. convicted criminals and those who might be a national security or public safety threat. That will mean a case-by-case review of approximately 300,000 illegal immigrants facing possible deportation in federal immigration courts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in announcing the policy change. Read full article > >

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US plans to make it a priority to deport illegal immigrants who are convicted criminals

The Department of Homeland Security has stepped back for the past two years from conducting its own intelligence and analysis of home-grown extremism, according to current and former department officials, even though law enforcement and civil rights experts have warned of rising extremist threats. The department has cut the number of personnel studying domestic terrorism unrelated to Islam, canceled numerous state and local law enforcement briefings, and held up dissemination of nearly a dozen reports on extremist groups, the officials and others said. Read full article > >

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Homeland Security Department curtails home-grown terror analysis

Lockheed Martin Corp, the world’s biggest aerospace company and the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier by sales, has been hit by an unspecified cyber incident, the U.S. government said Saturday. The Department of Homeland Security said that it and the Defense Department had offered to help gauge the scope of a “cyber incident impacting LMCO,” as the maker of fighter jets, ships and other major weapons systems is known. The federal government also has offered to help analyze “available data in order to provide recommendations to mitigate further risk,” Chris Ortman, a Homeland Security official, said in an e-mailed reply to a query from Reuters. Read full article > >

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Lockheed Martin hit by cyber incident, U.S. says

The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have warned police across the United States that al Qaeda has a “continuing interest” in attacking oil and natural gas targets, a department spokesman said Friday.

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Bin Laden raid leads to police warning

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security expects “threats of retaliation” from al Qaeda in the aftermath of Osama bin Laden’s death, a department official told CNN early Monday.

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The Department of Homeland Security is planning to tap social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to help spread the word in the event of a terror attack, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

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Government may use Facebook, Twitter for terror alerts

Less than three weeks after House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King (R-N.Y.) held a controversial hearing on Islamic radicalization, another congressional panel is set to tackle issues related to American Muslims.

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Previewing Dick Durbin’s hearing on the rights of American Muslims

I was appalled when I learned that House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King planned to hold hearings on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism. (The hearings are scheduled for next week.)

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Opinion: This is my son’s America, too

Two U.S. Immigration and Enforcement agents were shot, one fatally, in Mexico Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security said. The two agents were driving between Monterrey and Mexico City when the shooting occurred, although the details of the…

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U.S Immigration Agent Killed in Mexico

The threat of terrorism in the US is in some ways “at its most heightened state” since the 9/11 attacks, the US homeland security secretary says.

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US threat ‘at highest since 9/11′