US grounds flights after air traffic centres hit with communication failure
Flights are able to land but not take off, while Homeland Security says there are no nefarious acts.
Flights are able to land but not take off, while Homeland Security says there are no nefarious acts.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin addressed the FAA ground stop, saying as of right now, there is no reason to believe this was a threat to the US.
Homeland Security Investigations estimates that it has sent out more administrative subpoenas since January 2025 than it did in more than six and a half years between 2016 and mid-August 2022.
A group of hacktivists calling themselves Distributed Denial of Secrets, said the unmasking of ICE agents, DHS operatives and contractors was fair play, given the government's lack of transparency.
A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.
CNBC was able to access the database on the website, and saw it contained names alleged to be of officials, titles, agencies, and offices in cities and states.
The social networking site is facing criticism for blocking access to the site, which identifies thousands of ICE agents and other employees working for Homeland Security.
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers' cellphone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements.
Alex Pretti’s parents demanded answers Tuesday, saying the federal government has stayed silent for 275 days since immigration agents shot and killed their son, a US citizen, in Minneapolis in January. The day of the shooting, the Department of Homeland Security posted that agents were conducting a targeted operation when an “individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun” and that after they tred to “disarm the subject,” an agent “fired defensive shots,” though video of the incident disputed those claims. CNN has reached out to the DOJ and the US Attorney for Minnesota.
When footage of a man being hit by federal immigration officers’ SUV in Northern California became public, the Department of Homeland Security responded by saying the man had jumped on the vehicle’s hood.
Ex-Trump adviser and former top aide for homeland security alleged to have profited off government role
Homeland Security targets nine states in fraud investigations that critics say intimidate voters.
The judge found the department's field operations to identify noncitizens who voted likely violated the Voting Rights Act, which bars voter intimidation.
The request from political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency was never fulfilled, ProPublica found, but staffers were shocked at the directive not to report flaws back to the voting machine company. It demonstrates why state officials’ trust in CISA has eroded. [Link: This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump. | https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump | ProPublica]