Obama tasks Napolitano with Homeland Security overhaul

WASHINGTON — Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, a border-state governor with a background in law enforcement, will inherit what her new boss on Monday called a "sprawling" department in need of reform ...

Mumbai gunmen besiege hotels,
kill 119 in 2 days

The Taj Hotel, Mumbai's landmark hotel, is caught fire after an attack in Mumbai, India's financial capital, on early Thursday morning November 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed ...

DOJ, NYPD feuding over terrorist surveillance

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department and the New York Police Department are feuding over secret terror investigations, with the city pushing for faster approval to spy on suspects - a move that ...

TSA's threat detectors are taking off at Newark airport

NEWARK — Airport screener Rupesh Persaud still remembers the day he first discovered that the behavior detection training he'd received from the Transportation Security Administration actually ...

Israeli security team ends LAX review

LOS ANGELES — A team of Israeli airport security experts on Friday wrapped up a weeklong review of Los Angeles International Airport, providing a level of insight and expertise that city officials ...

NASA practices for earthquakes

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. — NASA-Ames Research Center authorities have asked residents not to be concerned if they see smoke or fire trucks at the Moffett Field facility next week.

N.J. EMs roll out new mass casualty response plan

BAYONNE, N.J. — More than 100 emergency workers and politicians from across the state gathered yesterday at the Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne to celebrate their new emergency response plan ...

2012 deadline to scan all port cargo won't be met

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department says it will not meet a 2012 deadline set by Congress to scan the contents of every cargo container headed to U.S. ports. Instead, it plans to gather ...

Report slams TSA failure to track security passes

The agency overseeing security at the nation's airports failed for years to track security passes and uniforms of former employees, creating widespread vulnerability to terrorists, says a government ...

High-tech ID cards rolling out at New England ports

BOSTON — New England's ports will become the first in the nation to phase in high-tech identification cards for port workers, adding another layer of security to areas once considered this country's ...

Mailmen might deliver meds in next anthrax attack

WASHINGTON — If there ever is another anthrax attack, the mailman may deliver your antibiotics. Federal health officials are beginning a project in Minneapolis-St. Paul to let letter carriers ...

New weather balloons aim for better hurricane data

MIAMI — A fleet of special balloons may soon help hurricane forecasters better predict the path of storms. But at a cost of up to $2,000 a pop, these aren't your average birthday party decorations. ...

Boston's MBTA loses bid to expand security grants

BOSTON — The federal government has rejected a request by the MBTA and other big-city transit agencies to use antiterrorism grants to install systems that detect chemical threats in subway stations.

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Report: US still vulnerable to pandemic flu outbreak

WASHINGTON — States are more prepared for super-flu than they were several years ago, but non-health related sectors of the economy remain vulnerable, according to a report by the National Governors ...

Massive effort rescues nearly 2000 in Texas

DALLAS — Cars clogged debris-strewn roads into the Houston area, even though free-flowing electricity, gasoline and water may be days or weeks away.

Reflections on 9/11: Looking forward - and back, too

Seven years ago, we learned what we should not have had to learn, that borders and oceans don’t matter as much as they did in generations past, that as much as we love and admire our own country, ...

Cleanup begins after Hurricane Gustav

HOMELAND1 — Hurricane Gustav ripped into Gulfport, Mississippi, Monday littering the city with debris and damaging a number of buildings. Homeland1 spoke with Katherine Crowell of MEMA

Schwarzenegger: Faster border crossing a priority

LOS ANGELES — Hoping to cut down on wait times at the border, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday that he and other governors are exploring the idea of public-private partnerships to construct ...

Homeland Security setting up counterspy unit

WASHINGTON — Concerns about foreign spies and terrorists have prompted the Homeland Security Department to set up its own counterintelligence division and require strict reporting from employees ...

New technology IDs pathogens by DNA weight signatures

WASHINGTON — A new technology that can quickly distinguish between subtly different strains of anthrax might have been central to the FBI's investigation of the deadly anthrax letters that killed ...