Homeland Security Leader

The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials.

The long-planned shift in the Defense Department’s role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said.

There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military’s role in domestic law enforcement.

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Secretary Chertoff gave a statement on the resignation of Jock Scharfen, acting director for US Citizenship and Immigration Services

Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on the designation of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary on December 1, 2008.

A part-time assistant harbor master on Cape Cod has been charged by federal authorities with pretending to be an armed federal agent so he could bypass airport security.

More than a dozen targeted Westerners, Israelis have been killed

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says Indian leaders must not blame his country for this week's deadly terror attacks in Mumbai. And in an unprecedented move, he has agreed to send the chief of Pakistan's top spy agency to India to help investigate the violence.

The report of a threat of terrorist violence against the New York transit system has prompted Los Angeles officials to increase security.

I moved to Mumbai six years ago from New York City, and I have seen India change with each terrorist attack. Wednesday night's attack will prove a defining turning point. India will go from being resiliently defensive to resolutely offensive.

Commuter transit systems on high alert