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Homeland Security drones resume flying after crash

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

Visitors arrive in Sochi airport, Russia, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 as police officers talk aside. Russia has spent about $51 billion to deliver the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which run Feb. 7-23. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Feds warn of possible toothpaste-tube threat to flights to Russia

By Alicia A. Caldwell and Joan Lowy - Associated Press

US warns of explosives in toothpaste tubes

By JOAN LOWY and ALICIA A. CALDWELL - Associated Press

In a letter to the Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson, Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, said that not only is the border insecure but that it is patrolled ineffectively. (Associated Press)

McCain slams way border is patrolled

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

"It's a complete failure for me. It won't let you progress. It freezes up," Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, says of his attempts to sign up for Obamacare using the HealthCare.gov website. (associated press)

GAO watchgdog: CBP, ICE security database upgrade seen veering off course

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Charles Edwards, acting inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, testifies before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs at the Dirksen Building in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Charles Edwards, criticized Homeland Security IG, leaving post

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Department of Homeland Security police officers keep an eye on planes at Los Angeles International Airport. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Negotiators skirt customs, make flights easier from UAE to U.S.

By Jeffrey Anderson and Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Homeland Security police officers keep watch along Pennsylvania Avenue a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. Ayo Handy-Kendi (left) and others wear chains to show their opposition to the District not having a voting representative in Congress.

Feds took Times reporter’s notes from police evidence room

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

**FILE** Jeh Johnson, President Barack Obama's choice to become Homeland Security Secretary, testifies on Capitol Hill on Nov. 13, 2013, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his nomination. (Associated Press)

Jeh Johnson, DHS secretary nominee, approved by Senate committee

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deporting fewer illegal immigrants this fiscal year, but a larger percentage of them have no criminal records. The numbers suggest that the Obama administration is struggling to meet its stated goals. (ICE via Associated Press)**FILE**

Deportations plummet in 2013, lowest since 2007: Report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Libyan militias from towns throughout the country's west parade through Tripoli, Libya, on Feb. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

Despite Benghazi, Libyans may train with U.S. military

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Golden Hammer: Radios sit in storage amid ‘critical’ calls; Homeland Security gets static

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

The seal of the Department of Homeland Security

DHS employee behind racist website on paid leave

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**FILE** Illegal immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector headquarters on Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

Labor union chief calls immigration bill dangerous, sees agency as ‘approval machine’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Razor wire sits atop a border fence as a building in the Mexican border city of Tijuana sits behind, as seen from San Diego on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Independent study raises the bar for border security, immigration reform

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2013, before the House Homeland Security Committee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama’s immigrant deportation numbers tell different stories in interior, on border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Immigration bill bans racial profiling by federal law enforcement

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama, accompanied by members of his Cabinet, speaks about superstorm Sandy at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. With him are (from second from the left) Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Congress investigates DHS ammo purchase

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Razor wire sits atop a border fence as a building in the Mexican border city of Tijuana sits behind, as seen from San Diego on Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

New GOP bill gives administration two years to secure the borders

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times