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TSA Workers Miss First Full Paycheck as Shutdown Drags

Missed wages deepen staff shortages, trigger more airport security delays

(Newser) - TSA workers are about to be out a full pay period's compensation, and the political fight behind it shows no sign of breaking. On Friday, airport screeners will miss their first complete paycheck of the latest Homeland Security shutdown, even as they're required to keep manning checkpoints, the...

With TSA Workers Unpaid, Airport Asks Travelers to Help

Thanks, union official says, but the problem remains

(Newser) - Denver's airport is again asking travelers to pack something extra: grocery and gas gift cards for federal workers guarding the gates without being paid. With the Department of Homeland Security still unfunded and TSA officers working through the shutdown, Denver International Airport has launched a donation drive for $10...

Good News for Those With Global Entry
Good News for Those
With Global Entry
Mar 11, 2026 12:05 PM CDT

Good News for Those With Global Entry

Reactivation lets vetted travelers use expedited screening despite DHS shutdown

(Newser) - Travelers enrolled in Global Entry can exhale again. The Trump administration switched the trusted-traveler program back on at 5am Eastern on Wednesday, after halting it in February due to the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which is ongoing. The AP notes DHS officials initially said the program...

Going on Spring Break? Prep for an Airport Wait

War, fuel prices, and TSA staffing issues spur hourslong lines, canceled flights, higher costs

(Newser) - Spring breakers hoping for a smooth escape to warmer climes are instead walking into a travel thicket of long lines, higher prices, and shifting flight maps. A partial government shutdown is leaving TSA officers unpaid and resulting in some checkpoints being badly understaffed, producing hourslong waits at airports nationwide, reports...

DHS Shutdown Blamed for Hourslong TSA Waits

Airports in Houston, New Orleans affected

(Newser) - Travelers complained of long waits Sunday—lasting hours in some cases—at security checkpoints at airports in Houston and New Orleans, which officials blamed on a government shutdown of the US Department of Homeland Security, the AP reports. The estimated wait time at the standard security checkpoint at the William...

DHS Agent's Fatal Shooting of Citizen Was Caught on Video

Texas grand jury declined to support criminal charges in killing

(Newser) - Newly released videos showing the fatal shooting of a US citizen by a federal immigration agent in Texas last year call into question assertions by the Department of Homeland Security that a driver intentionally rammed an agent with his car immediately before he was killed. The videos, some from officer...

For Noem, Ad Campaign May Have Sealed Her Fate
In the End, Noem Done In
by Unending 'Drama'
the rundown
Mar 6, 2026 12:53 PM CST

In the End, Noem Done In by Unending 'Drama'

Her comments about a controversial ad campaign were seen as the 'final straw'

(Newser) - Kristi Noem gave her opponents plenty of ammo to work with, as a Wall Street Journal investigation previously revealed. The New York Times has a further catalog, dealing not only with controversial moves as head of the Department of Homeland Security (including labeling protesters "domestic terrorists") but with...

Senator Seeks Perjury Probe Into Fired DHS Chief Noem

Democrat Richard Blumenthal seeks inquiry into Noem's testimony on adviser Corey Lewandowski

(Newser) - Sen. Richard Blumenthal isn't letting Kristi Noem's firing be the end of the story. The Connecticut Democrat says he'll push for a perjury probe into the now-ousted secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, alleging she lied under oath this week about the power wielded by top adviser...

Trump: Firing Noem 'Wasn't a Hard Choice'

He says he 'wasn't thrilled' about $220M ad campaign

(Newser) - President Trump says Kristi Noem's firing was more about a promotion for someone else than any failures on her part, though he admits that he "wasn't thrilled" about her $220 million ad campaign. In his first public comments since pushing the Homeland Security chief out of the...

Noem Thanks Trump for New 'Shield of the Americas' Role

Democrats welcome DHS chief's departure

(Newser) - Kristi Noem's turbulent run atop the Department of Homeland Security is ending with a reassignment and a replacement drawn from the Senate. President Trump announced Thursday that Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma will take over as DHS secretary, calling him "highly respected," while saying Noem will shift to...

Driver Fleeing Border Patrol Killed in Shootout

Suspect allegedly fired at officers, civilian cars in West Texas

(Newser) - A traffic stop at a West Texas border checkpoint turned deadly Wednesday after a driver sped off and opened fire on pursuing officers, authorities say. Officials identified the man as 33-year-old James Douglas McMillan of Greenfield, Wis., who had pulled into the US Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca but...

Trump Reportedly Considers Firing Kristi Noem

Punchbowl News says president has been making calls after Capitol Hill testimony

(Newser) - Is Kristi Noem's job in jeopardy as head of Homeland Security? Punchbowl News reports that President Trump has been "quietly" calling top Republicans on Capitol Hill to ask if he should fire her. The development comes after Noem spent two grueling days being grilled by the Senate and...

Angry at Noem, GOP Senator Threatens Rare Move

Thom Tillis says he will hold up Senate business unless he gets answers from DHS chief

(Newser) - One of the fiercest critics of Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem during her Senate testimony on Tuesday was a fellow Republican: Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina. Not only did he call her leadership of the department a "disaster," he threatened to hold up the work of the...

Pentagon Shoots Down DHS Drone With Laser

Lawmakers demand probe into 2nd uncoordinated snafu in Texas near US-Mexico border

(Newser) - The Pentagon just zapped the wrong drone, again. Defense officials on Thursday used a high-energy laser to bring down a "seemingly threatening" drone that turned out to belong to Homeland Security above Fort Hancock, Texas, forcing the FAA to briefly close airspace below 18,000 feet, multiple people familiar...

Columbia Student Detained by ICE, Then Abruptly Released

Ellie Aghayeva released after an unrelated Mamdani-Trump meeting

(Newser) - Federal immigration authorities arrested a Columbia University student early Thursday, triggering protests on campus and allegations that agents gained entry to the university-owned residence by posing as police officers searching for a missing child. Just hours after detaining student Ellie Aghayeva, though, the federal government abruptly reversed course, permitting her...

Judge: 'Third Country' Deportation Is Unlawful

He says deportees are not given 'meaningful notice' or opportunities to object

(Newser) - The Trump administration's latest policy of deporting immigrants to "third countries" to which they have no ties is unlawful and must be set aside, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in a case that already reached the nation's highest court.
  • US District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts
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Grand Jury Doesn't Indict in Long-Unrevealed DHS Killing

Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot in his car in South Padre Island

(Newser) - A Texas grand jury declined on Wednesday to indict a federal immigration agent who shot a man in his car in South Padre Island, a death the Department of Homeland Security did not disclose for almost a year. The government accused Ruben Ray Martinez of driving into an agent. The...

DHS Plans a Big Shift on Green Card Rules

New policy targets refugees lacking green cards for indefinite detention

(Newser) - A new directive from the Department of Homeland Security would turn a paperwork lapse into grounds for arrest and open-ended detention for many refugees who arrived under former President Biden. In a Wednesday memo, DHS rescinded 2010 guidance that said refugees who failed to apply for a green card after...

Top DHS Spokesperson Is Stepping Down
Top DHS
Spokesperson
Is Stepping
Down
Feb 17, 2026 12:42 PM CST

Top DHS Spokesperson Is Stepping Down

Tricia McLaughlin's departure comes as public opinion about ICE tactics appears to be souring

(Newser) - A high-profile voice defending the Trump administration's immigration push is stepping down. Tricia McLaughlin, the combative spokesperson for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and one of the administration's most visible champions of its crackdown, will leave the Department of Homeland Security next week, according to agency officials. Axios...

Cops: Teacher Killed in Crash With Man Fleeing ICE

Linda Davis' vehicle was struck by another in Savannah

(Newser) - Police say a crash that killed a public school teacher in Georgia on Monday was caused by a driver who was fleeing immigration agents, reports WTOC . The details:
  • ICE agents were trying to pull over 38-year-old Oscar Vasquez Lopez about 7:45am in Savannah when he "fled the scene,
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