The Washington Times

Topic - U.S. Department Of Homeland Security

Subscribe to this topic via RSS or ATOM
Related Stories
  • President Barack Obama attends the memorial for firefighters killed at the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, Thursday, April 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

    Obama's scrub of Muslim terms under question; common links in attacks

    Before the Boston Marathon bombings, the Obama administration argued for years that there is a big difference between terrorists and the tenets of Islam.

  • Oracle says Java is fixed; feds maintain warning

    Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week. Even after the patch was issued, the federal agency continued to recommend that users disable Java in their Web browsers.

  • Oracle issues Java fix; feds maintain warning

    Oracle Corp. said Monday it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week. Even after the patch was issued, the federal agency continued to recommend that users disable Java in their Web browsers.

  • Oracle says Java patch fixes security problem

    Oracle says it has released a fix for the flaw in its Java software that raised an alarm from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week.

  • ** FILE ** This April 23, 2007, file photo shows the Java logo at Sun Microsystems' offices in Menlo Park, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

    Oracle says Java flaw will be fixed 'shortly'

    Oracle Corp. says it will soon fix a flaw in its Java software that caught the attention of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

  • US government tells computer users to disable Java

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid potential hacking attacks.

  • Virginia lags in use of federal grants for security

    Virginia has not used more than $38 million of the $90 million in federal homeland security grants it was given from 2008 through 2010, a federal audit has found.

  • DHS and its Customs and Border Protection agency have deployed drones  to assist local law enforcement and other federal agencies on several occasions.

    Homeland Security increasingly lending drones to local police

    Far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, a Predator drone was summoned into action last year to spy on a North Dakota farmer who allegedly refused to return a half dozen of his neighbor’s cows that had strayed onto his pastures.

  • Illustration: Canada and freedom

    CALDWELL: Canadians should root for Romney

    Many Canadians are predisposed to dislike Mitt Romney. He is a Republican and can seem robotic even by GOP standards. In this land of center-left sensibilities, such party affiliation and corporate mien often rankle. I would urge my Canadian compatriots to reconsider.

  • The political collapse of veteran Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter has left his seat in the Detroit suburbs up for grabs. Election officials discovered that most of the signatures on Mr. McCotter's nominating petitions were apparently copies. (Associated Press)

    Inside Politics: Democratic lawmakers seek end of blood ban on gays

    A group of Democratic lawmakers Monday urged Health and Human Services officials to move swiftly on a pilot study on blood-donor policies so that the "indefensible" and "discriminatory" ban on donations by gay and bisexual men can be lifted.

  • Alfonso Cordova (back row, far right) lived in the U.S. for 30 years and owned an auto repair shop in Los Angeles. Then he was deported to his native El Salvador. His stop at a shelter in Tultitlan, Mexico, is one step closer to his goal of getting back to California to be with his wife, two grown sons and his business. Evidence in Mexico shows that the number of Central Americans migrating north continues unabated and may even be surging. (Keith Dannemiller/Special to The Washington Times)

    Deported illegals persist in quest to reclaim lives in U.S. shadows

    The vast majority of undocumented Central Americans passing through Mexico are young first-timers, fleeing violence, unemployment and impoverished conditions in their home countries. But stories of seeking to reclaim a life in the shadows of U.S. law are not uncommon.

  • Many in NY cheer delay of animal disease lab move

    The Obama administration has put the brakes on a plan to build a new lab that studies contagious animal diseases, a decision that has pitted disappointed Kansans hopeful about growth against New Yorkers fighting to keep about 200 jobs at a Cold War-era facility on a tiny island.

  • Science fiction-style sabotage a fear in new hacks

    When a computer attack hobbled Iran's unfinished nuclear power plant last year, it was assumed to be a military-grade strike, the handiwork of elite hacking professionals with nation-state backing.

  • Science fiction-style sabotage a fear in new hacks

    When a computer attack hobbled Iran's unfinished nuclear power plant last year, it was assumed to be a military-grade strike, the handiwork of elite hacking professionals with nation-state backing.

  • Quicker hearings ordered for immigration detainees

    The Justice Department cannot hold immigrants fighting deportation for years without bail hearings, a U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Thursday, echoing rulings in two other federal circuits.

More Stories →

Happening Now