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With the current partial shutdown and the record 43-day governmentwide shutdown last fall, most DHS employees have gone without pay for half the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that the Trump administration doesn't plan to seek congressional authorization for the war in Iran, saying the move was "unnecessary" because the conflict has been ongoing for nearly a month ...

The United States is preparing to resume underground nuclear tests in response to significant covert Chinese and Russian nuclear testing, a senior State Department disclosed this week.

On the fringes of the U.S.-Iran war, a lone British destroyer arrived off the coast of Cyprus this week to help defend the drone-struck, strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean.

A federal appeals court said Wednesday that the Trump administration is likely on solid legal ground with its new interpretation allowing mandatory detention of illegal immigrants as they await their deportation hearings.

President Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on May 14 and 15, the White House said Wednesday.

Democrats are still demanding that immigration enforcement agents stop wearing masks and obtain judicial warrants to enter private property as part of a counteroffer on Department of Homeland Security funding they sent Republicans on Wednesday.

Hourslong lines at airport security checkpoints are easing up as ICE officers help TSA.

A woman in Indiana who put off dental surgery because she doesn't know if she can afford the copay. A Florida couple with young children who are depleting their savings. A grandmother in Idaho who plans to sell her car to pay the rent.

President Trump claimed Tuesday cryptically that he got a present from Iran "worth a tremendous amount of money," telling reporters it revealed to him that "we're talking to the right people."