homeland security department

AP - The Homeland Security Department swept aside evaluations of government experts and named Mississippi — home to powerful U.S. lawmakers with sway over the agency — as a top location for a new $451 million, national laboratory to study some of the world's most virulent biological threats, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press.

A congressional panel on Monday will hear about a plan to limit the federal Homeland Security Department's ability to speed up the process of building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.

AP - The Homeland Security Department will soon require advance information on private flights to the United States to prevent a terrorist from smuggling a nuclear bomb into the country.

The Austin area, along with 14 other cities and regions, has been added to the high-risk terrorism watch list by the Homeland Security Department.

AP - More cities across the country are considered at high risk of a terrorist attack, according to a new list of funding priorities from the Homeland Security Department.