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A shooting has been reported at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) will succeed Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) as the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Three are dead, including the gunman, after he opened fire in a suburban Portland, Ore., shopping mall on Tuesday, December 11.

New reports from the FBI show a 6 percent decrease in hate crime in 2011, but not all states are participating in the data collection effort. 

For FY 2013, the NNSA will lose 85 percent of its budget, and the megaport project -- set to scan shipping containers bound for the U.S. -- will be placed on hold.

In 2013 visitors from 30 countries will be required to submit a photograph and fingerprints if they want to travel to Canada.

The Secret Service is the target of an investigation involving the loss of two backup computer tapes left on a Washington, D.C., Metro train.

The October 3, 2012, data breach might affect upward of 1.1 million people who were either Nationwide customers or sought a quote from the Ohio-based company.

94 percent of healthcare organizations surveyed have suffered at least one data breach in the last year, according to the Ponemon report.

Funds spent on an underwater robot for a landlocked Midwestern city, a hog catcher and a fish tank are among the DHS expenses being questioned by members of Congress.