U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Sunday that President-elect Barack Obama shouldn’t rush to close Guantanamo Bay before he has a plan to...

The nation’s top immigration cop unknowingly used a company that hired illegal immigrants to clean his home for about three years, starting in 2005.

The current homeland security secretary advised his successor Wednesday not to reorganize the young department or try to please everyone.

Senior federal officials are telling Gulf Coast residents to listen to what their local officials tell them to do. And if they are told to evacuate, evacuate.

Senior federal officials have one common message for Gulf Coast residents within Ike’s path: Get out of town.

The nation’s top domestic security official says aviation still remains vulnerable to terrorist attack, seven years after 9/11.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is telling The Associated Press that he can’t remember a time when FEMA was juggling so many major disasters at...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff got a firsthand look at damage from recent Missouri flooding and an update about how recovery is going.Chertoff said...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in an interview broadcast Sunday that negotiations with al-Qaida would be futile.In a television interview with...

The terrorist threat to the United States has not abated despite government steps in the past year to tighten rules for people and goods that enter the country, the...

The terrorist threat to the United States has not abated despite government steps in the past year to tighten rules for people and goods that enter the country, the...

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff spent Sunday in Iraq, where he participated in a ceremony for 178 foreign-born service members to become U.S....

Reaching a new agreement with Canada to share air passenger information by the end of 2008 seems futile, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the White...