As we enter 2025, homeland security professionals face an increasingly complex and evolving threat landscape. While the following are just three of many pressing challenges, they highlight the ...

Terrorism remains a persistent threat to the United States both domestically and across the globe. The threat spectrum remains diverse with threat actors from both domestic and foreign sources, as ...

We at Homeland Security Today have once again reached out to our Editorial Board, columnists, and community of subject-matter experts to ask for their assessment of the threats facing the nation in ...

The intersection between chemicals and homeland security cannot be overstated. The United States chemical sector is responsible for more than a quarter of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) and ...

Block Island, Rhode Island aerial view from the south with Rhode Island coastline in the distance. (Photo: Timothy J. Quill, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikipedia) The Coast Guard rescued four people Thursday ...

The original 13 countries will be expanded by many more under Trump's latest iteration of the "travel restrictions" policy he'll bring back early this year. (Graphic: CIS) Not so long ago, political ...

An ISIS member with a U.S.-made Egyptian military drone seized in 2020. (ISIS photo) Imagine rental trucks pulling up to a packed sports event or concert in the United States. Instead of a lone ...

DeepSeek’s terms of service explicitly states it stores user data on Chinese servers and that it governs that data under Chinese law — which mandates cooperation ...

Human trafficking, a pervasive and insidious crime, poses a profound and escalating threat to the national security of the United States. As we look forward in 2025, this illicit activity not only ...

But now a bigger and much more ambitious version of “extreme vetting” is on the front burner again, put there with Trump’s inauguration day executive order titled “Protecting the United States from ...

TSA officers prevented this gun from getting through the security checkpoint at Norfolk International Airport on Jan. 24. (TSA photo) A Virginia Beach, Va., woman was stopped at the Norfolk ...

One of the greatest security threats to the homeland is from insiders. This threat is one of the most difficult because it manifests from within an organization despite the typical presence of a ...