by Lucia Barnum | Feb 28, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science, Immigration
WASHINGTON — Members of the new GOP-led House Committee on Homeland Security debated the issue of fentanyl at the border at the first hearing of the new Congress, saying Department of Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and the rest of President Joe Biden’s...
by Logan Schiciano | Jan 27, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – In 2018, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) floated the idea that the Parkland shooting was a false flag operation. In 2019, she suggested former-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be executed for treason. Yet, in 2023, she has a spot on two important...
by Jorja Siemons | Feb 17, 2022 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated the government’s failure to adequately prepare for biological threats, experts told senators Thursday at a hearing on improving U.S. biosecurity preparedness. “Biodefense is too fragmented and...
by Stephanie Haines | Feb 26, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON – – New Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Wednesday agreed with members of a congressional committee that his agency needs to focus more on border security. The House Homeland Security Committee hosted Johnson, who became the secretary of the...
by Ryan McCrimmon | Feb 12, 2014 | National Security
WASHINGTON — A panel of Middle East policy experts say the growing jihadist movement in Egypt poses an increasing threat to the United States. The experts told the House Homeland Security Committee Tuesday that terrorist and insurgent groups are thriving in the...
