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New Orleans' challenge: policing 2 huge parties
A New Orleans police force famed for its crowd control prowess is getting help from state and federal authorities as the city hosts an estimated ...
THE RESET: Familiar faces on Obama's 2nd-term team
President Barack Obama is much of the way through completing his second-term Cabinet and top White House staff. For many of those chosen so far, it's ...
Obama deflects criticism about lack of diversity
Deflecting criticism about a perceived lack of diversity in his second-term Cabinet, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Americans not to rush to ...
Gov't spent $18 billion on immigration enforcement
The Obama administration spent more money on immigration enforcement in the last fiscal year than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, ...
Ranchers split over US border security plan
When Dan Bell drives through his 35,000-acre cattle ranch, he speaks of the hurdles that the Border Patrol faces in his rolling green hills of oak and ...
Obama to send Congress gun proposals in January
Declaring the time for action overdue, President Barack Obama promised on Wednesday to send Congress broad proposals in January for tightening gun ...
Rice withdrawal sparks gender concerns on Cabinet
The top contenders for the "big three" jobs in President Barack Obama's second-term Cabinet are all white men, rekindling concerns among Democratic ...
Coast Guard member dies in crash off Calif. coast
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she's saddened to learn of the death of a Coast Guard member during a ...
Obama vows not to forget storm victims rebuilding
President Barack Obama vowed Thursday to stick with New Yorkers still struggling 17 days after Superstorm Sandy "until the rebuilding is complete" ...
What does it take to get people to flee a storm?
Despite days of dire forecasts and explicit warnings, hundreds of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey ignored mandatory evacuation orders ...
Gawkers head to NY's storm-ravaged neighborhoods
Garbage trucks, hulking military vehicles and mud-caked cars move slowly through a Staten Island waterfront neighborhood still reeling from Superstorm ...
As days without power drag on, frustration simmers
New Yorkers railed Sunday against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring power two weeks after the superstorm that socked the region, ...
Where will housing be found for Sandy's victims?
Government leaders are turning their attention to the next crisis unfolding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: finding housing for potentially tens ...
Nor'easter threatens weather-weary East Coast
A week after Superstorm Sandy pummeled the East Coast, wiping out entire communities, residents were bracing for yet another potentially damaging ...
Battered by storm, Staten Islanders feel forgotten
Gazing at her bungalow, swept from its foundation and tossed across the street, Janice Clarkin wondered if help would ever come to this battered ...
Fuel shortage means gridlock in lines for gasoline
When it came to fuel supplies and patience, the New York metro area was running close to empty Friday. From storm-scarred New Jersey to parts of ...
Mayor defends move to hold marathon, tempers boil
The Manhattan skyline was expected to be mostly lit for the first time in five days Friday night, a sign of progress undercut by long gas lines and ...
Gov't moves to allow oil tankers in Northeast
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday temporarily waived a maritime rule to allow foreign oil tankers coming from the Gulf of Mexico ...
FBI: Strong signs border death was friendly fire
Friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting near the Arizona-Mexico line that killed one federal agent and wounded another, the FBI said, noting ...
FBI: Friendly fire likely in border shootings
A preliminary investigation has found friendly fire likely was to blame in a shooting that killed one federal agent and wounded another along the ...
Mexico holds 2 in connection with border shooting
Federal police have arrested two men who may be connected with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent just north of the Mexico-Arizona ...
US begins flying home deported Mexicans
The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed by ...
Intelligence effort named citizens, not terrorists
A multibillion-dollar information-sharing program created in the aftermath of 9/11 has improperly collected information about innocent Americans and ...
US allows visa-free travel for Taiwanese
The U.S. announced Tuesday visa-free travel for Taiwanese visiting America. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano described it as a "logical ...
Gay couples may get reprieve in deportation cases
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to issue a policy memo stating that illegal immigrants with American same-sex partners are eligible ...