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Color-Coded Terror Alert System to be Replaced [VIDEO]

Top Lawmaker Protests 'Whistle-Blower' Demotion

WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department demoted a senior career employee who confidentially complained to the inspector general that political appointees were improperly interfering with requests for federal records by journalists and watchdog groups. The new Republican chairman of the House Oversight and...

Color-Coded Terror Warnings to Be Gone by April 27

WASHINGTON -- By the end of April, terror threats to the U.S. will no longer be described in shades of green, blue, yellow, orange and red, The Associated Press has learned. The nation's color-coded terror warning system will be phased out beginning this week, according to government officials familiar with the plan. The...

Alert Issued on Beverage Containers on Planes

WASHINGTON -- The Homeland Security Department has alerted air carriers to a potential terror tactic involving insulated beverage containers like thermoses. The alert stressed that there is no intelligence about an active terror plot, but travelers may notice airport screeners taking a closer look at empty insulated...

ACLU Sues Feds Over Detentions of Mentally Ill

(Aug. 2) -- The American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights activists went to court late today seeking to force the federal government to protect the rights of mentally incompetent immigrant detainees -- at least one of whom, they say, languished in federal custody for nearly five years. The lawsuit, filed in...

Background on Homeland Security Department

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the United States of America and U.S.

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