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The House ethics committee is investigating complaints by a fired Homeland Security Committee employee, who alleged that a lobbyist made improper requests to the panel chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week's White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed officers on leave. President Barack Obama says his confidence in the agency remains unshaken.
The Harris County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management (OHSEM) reminds motorists that when temperatures reach at or just above 32-degrees, a thin layer of water on the roads and highways can turn to slick ice, making for dangerous driving conditions.
US lawmakers Thursday probed security lapses that allowed an uninvited couple to gate crash an exclusive White House reception last week as the secret service admitted it had made a mistake.
Rep. Bennie Thompson got the memo. n a high-profile House hearing yesterday, Mr. Thompson, D-Miss., the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, squashed Republican efforts to subpoena White House social secretary Desiree Rogers and put the blame for Tareq and Michaele Salahi's uninvited entry into the Nov. 24 White House state dinner squarely on the Secret Service.
The Secret Service chief testifies on how a couple crashed the White House event. Three agents are on paid leave. The White House security procedures in place during last week's state dinner had been used at times during past administrations without problems, the Secret Service director said Thursday as he tried to explain how a Virginia couple managed to talk their way into one of the most ...
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano met with private sector leaders in the real estate, professional sports, media and financial industries during her visit to New York City this week to discuss the importance of protecting the nation's critical infrastructure and the shared responsibility of building a national culture of readiness and resiliency.
WASHINGTON -- Meet the people who stand between us and the terrorists. The most powerful government on earth yesterday was held hostage by four ninnies -- a Secret Service chief who looked like a scared bunny, a stonewalling presidential social se...
Three Secret Service agents who allowed a pair of publicity hogs to crash President Obama's first state dinner have turned in their earpieces and badges, officials said yesterday. "The individuals identified have been put on administrative leave,"...
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Houston had its earliest snowfall on record Friday, with several inches accumulating in counties southwest of the city.
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Just when U.S. employers thought the bad vibes emanating from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) could get no worse, the agency tasked with deciding whether to approve or reject requests for immigration benefits has come up with VIBE -- its new Verification Initiative for Business Enterprises which costs a whopping $35,506,760.43.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Homeland Security Department announced plans to partner with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority on a new biological terrorism study.
WASHINGTON — The head of the Secret Service accepted full responsibility Wednesday for last week's security breach at President Barack Obama's first state dinner, but insisted that the president and Vice President Joe Biden were never in danger from a party-crashing couple who shook hands and posed for pictures with them.
Local law enforcement may be a little safer now that a bomb robot has joined the team.
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