The Department of Homeland Security’s massive bureaucracy has many critical national security functions and spends billions ...

The first week of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks concluded Friday with Department of ...

The job of the homeland security secretary is to adapt almost continuously to pressures from the department, the public and ...

Kristi Noem is having her Senate confirmation hearing Friday to become President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Homeland ...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump's pick for Department of Homeland Security Secretary, is being questioned today by the Senate for her confirmation hearing. NBC News' Julia ...

overseeing the sprawling agencies and missions of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and an annual budget exceeding US$62.2 billion . Overall, the department – and the secretary who leads ...

President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Homeland Security secretary portrayed illegal immigration as an "invasion" and the ...

Breaking up the Department of Homeland Security DHS was born in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, with the aim of creating an agency responsible for defending the homeland and preventing ...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas defended his agency’s work to tamp down border-crossing numbers and argued against breaking apart the sprawling department in a wide-ranging ...

If confirmed, Noem would lead the department poised to be at the center of Trump's immigration policy priorities, including ...