Department of Homeland Security

The Secret Service is under scrutiny following the assassination attempt targeting former President Trump. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle released a new statement saying the agency will fully participate in the shooting’s investigation and is expected to meet with the House Homeland Security Committee members. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports. 

The heat was an issue for thousands of people who waited in line for hours outside a career expo for the Department of Homeland Security at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder spoke with several people who told him after hours of waiting in the heat, the federal agency told them to just apply...

Two-thirds of the Senate would be needed to convict Alejandro Mayorkas in an impeachment trial, and no Democrats have signaled openness to voting to remove him from office.

If House Republicans get their way, he’ll be the first Cabinet member impeached in nearly 150 years. They say he’s responsible for allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants into the United States illegally in a burgeoning crisis. Mayorkas is the first Latino and the first immigrant to lead the department. He says the allegations driving impeachment are “baseless.”

House Republicans voted along party lines after midnight Wednesday to move toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for a “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue.

Virginia’s state-run fine arts museum is returning 44 ancient pieces of art to their countries of origin after law enforcement officials presented the institution with what it called “irrefutable evidence” that the works had been stolen or looted. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts announced in a news release Tuesday that it had “safely delivered” the pieces to the Manhattan...

A new guide from the Department of Homeland Security aims to help churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship protect themselves during heightened tensions in faith-based communities across the country.

An expert who once oversaw a Department of Homeland Security disinformation board filed a defamation suit Wednesday against Fox News, her lawyer said.

A recent surge of migrants in the Brownsville, Texas, area of the U.S.-Mexico border is highlighting immigration challenges as the U.S. prepares for the end of a policy linked to the coronavirus pandemic that allowed it to quickly expel many migrants.