Homeland Security Department

The Transportation and Security Administration is slashing its funding for law enforcement officers at passenger screenings in smaller airports, The Homeland Security News Wire reports.

Stewart Baker, the first assistant secretary for policy at DHS under President George W. Bush says that, in order to "prevail in the cybersecurity war," we must "identify the attackers and punish them,” Homeland Security News Wire reports.

While the threat of foreign terrorism has subsided, critics say the threat of domestic terrorism in the United States is remains high, Homeland Security News Wire reports.

A high school boy asked a girl to go to a dance by having a helicopter fly over the school and drop a stuffed animal bearing the message.

But the stunt has caught not only the girl's attention, but also the government's. The boy's father is a senior air operations official at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, and federal officials are saying the date proposal used a CBP helicopter without permission, according to the Washington Post.