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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer blasts ‘radicalized’ GOP ahead of vote on domestic terrorism bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen as she testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Senate GOP pledges to cut off funding for Biden’s disinformation board

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration offered humanitarian relief to Ukrainians in the United States on Thursday, March 3, 2022, which could protect thousands from being deported to their war-torn homeland. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

DHS vows to reboot disinformation board after hitting pause button

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 10, 2018, photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents gather before serving an employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) **FILE**

ICE force-installed suicide prevention app on employees’ phones

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., holds up papers as he questions Deborah E. Lipstadt, nominated to be Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, with the rank of Ambassador, about comments she made online, during her Senate Foreign Relations nomination hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Also pictured is Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, left. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Republican lawmakers fear new terrorism bulletin another step in Biden’s march toward police state

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Truckers and supporters block the access leading from the Ambassador Bridge, linking Detroit and Windsor, as truckers and their supporters continue to protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions in Windsor, Ontario, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Federal law enforcement increasingly worried about U.S. trucker convoy: Report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Group targets DHS threat bulletin citing false, misleading narratives in domestic terror warning

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Human Trafficking Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Human trafficking affects us all

By Rep. Kat Cammack

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Nov. 16, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

U.S. Homeland Security agents to test use of body cameras

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

Migrants walk near a gate on the U.S.-Mexico border wall after they were spotted by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and taken into custody while trying to cross, Sunday, March 21, 2021, in Abram-Perezville, Texas. The fate of thousands of migrant families who have recently arrived at the Mexico border is being decided by a mysterious new system under President Joe Biden. U.S. authorities are releasing migrants with “acute vulnerabilities” and allowing them to pursue asylum. But it’s not clear why some are considered vulnerable and not others. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

DHS to plug gaps Biden left in Trump’s border wall

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Swamp Master Biden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The swamp monsters who run Biden’s White House

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

A girl from Afghanistan waits with other evacuees to fly to the United States or an other save location in a makeshift departure gate inside a hanger at the United States Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. One of largest American military community overseas gets to a transport hub and houses thousands Afghan evacuees. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Daines demands answers over reports child traffickers among Afghan evacuees

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

A U.S. Capitol Police officer patrols the East Plaza the morning after fencing was reinstalled around the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, ahead of a planned rally by far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump who are demanding the release of rioters arrested in connection with the 6 January insurrection. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

DHS warns of ‘small’ amount of online threats encouraging violence before Capitol rally: Reports

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Asylum seekers wait for news of policy changes at the border, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Tijuana, Mexico. A federal appellate court refused late Thursday, Aug. 19 to delay implementation of a judges order reinstating a Trump administration policy forcing thousands to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S. President Joe Biden had suspended former President Donald Trumps Remain in Mexico policy on his first day in office and the Department of Homeland Security said it was permanently terminating the program in June, according to the court record. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Supreme Court is latest to strike down Biden’s immigration policies

By Lora Ries

Illustration on ICE policy by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

An open letter to Biden appointees at ICE: Don’t be the fall guy

By Jon Feere

In this June 8, 2013 file photo, Chris Inglis, then deputy director of the National Security Agency testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Inglis is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Biden names 2 ex-NSA officials for senior cyber positions

By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN and BEN FOX - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, photo, U.S. Army troops place additional concertina wire to the border fence on a hillside above Nelson Street in downtown Nogales, Ariz. (Jonathan Clark/Nogales International via AP) ** FILE **

Southern border assistance mission has hurt military readiness, study finds

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows a counterfeit N95 surgical mask that was seized by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Federal investigators are probing a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities, and government agencies and expect the number to rise significantly in coming weeks. The fake 3M masks are at best a copyright violations and at worst unsafe fakes that put unknowing health care workers at grave risk for coronavirus. And they are becoming increasingly difficult to spot. (ICE via AP)

Feds seize 460,000 counterfeit N95 face masks in Seattle

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

President-elect Joe Biden's Homeland Security Secretary nominee Alejandro Mayorkas speaks at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Alejandro Mayorkas, DHS secretary, says agency will prioritize combating ransomware ‘epidemic’

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times