Michael Chertoff

A day after federal agents arrested 1,187 people on illegal-immigration charges in the nation's largest-ever work-site enforcement action, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Thursday warned of an intensified campaign to target employers whose...

Good morning. The national political conventions are finished and now it is a two-month sprint to the Nov. 4 election. Newly minted Republican nominee John McCain is campaigning today in Milwaukee and later Sterling Heights, Mich., while Democrat Barack...

Good morning. Here are a few Washington events of note for Wednesday, September 10. The House Homeland Security Committee is holding a hearing on "Mismanagement, Missteps, and Missed Benchmarks: Why the Virtual Fence Has Not Become a Reality." Herman........

Bill Murphy, right, stands with his wife, Barbara, as two others who were stranded with them wait to be rescued from flood waters by a Coast Guard helicopter in High Island, Texas Friday, Sept. 12, 2008 (AP Photo/The Dallas......

A flooded street after Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008, in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) by Frank James Not many details from the 2:30 pm federal press conference on Hurricane Ike held by Homeland......

by Mark Silva President Bush, citing the damage that Hurricane Ike is causing in not only Texas, but also parts of Louisiana, said today that federal agencies will be monitoring gas prices in the midst of energy-supply disruptions to ensure......

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff talks with reporters about the federal response to Hurricane Ike at FEMA headquarters Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. From left: FEMA Administrator David Paulison, Chertoff, U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Joseph...

by Frank James Incoming Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano may want to have her department's immigration agents check the immigration status of any cleaning-company workers she may hire to keep up her future Washington-area home. That's one...

by Frank James The Homeland Security Department is giving us a sense of Secretary Michael Chertoff's itinerary today. Suffice it to say that he is going to be showing the DHS flag a lot in Louisiana in the next few......

by Mark Silva and updated twice BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Scratch two from the lineup of speakers at the increasingly uncertain Republican National Convention because of the onslaught of Hurricane Gustav: President Bush and Vice President Cheney. "Due to...

by Frank James I just watched Homeland Security Sec. Michael Chertoff's brief press conference at Andrews Air Force base just before he got on a plane to head to the Gulf Coast region to check in on preparations for Hurricane......

A top deputy to Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft defended the Bush administration's aggressive war on terrorism Wednesday as both legal and justified, but he faced harsh criticism from lawmakers on some of its more controversial tools. Democrats and some...