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Rescue efforts began Friday, but FEMA did not deploy its network of Urban Search and Rescue teams until Monday.

Weslaco, Texas police have released an incident report that details a missing persons report filed by the father of Ryan ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection released a timeline of events leading up to the death of a gunman who targeted the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector ...

Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be investigated over the ...

The U.S. has again ceased livestock imports from Mexico related to the presence of the parasitic New World screwworm fly ...

The U.S. has closed its southern border again to livestock imports, saying that a flesh-eating parasite has moved farther ...

Members of the Border Patrol's Search Trauma and Rescue unit, or BORSTAR, deployed to Central Texas, where floods killed at least 120 people during the Fourth of July weekend and where nearly 200 are ...

The Department of Homeland Security reported that more than a dozen agitators slashed tires on federal vehicles and damaged ...

Noem ordered that every FEMA contract and grant worth that exceeds $100,000 must cross her desk for approval, CNN reported in ...

Immigration arrests are sharply up around the country, and Florida is sending some to Alligator Alcatraz. But did Obama ...

Secretary Kristi Noem for the federal response to the recent deadly floods in Texas that have killed at least 120 people, amid ...