Children 12 years old and younger soon will no longer be required to remove their shoes at airport security checkpoints, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress on Tuesday.

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The use of full-body scanners and invasive pat-downs at airports around the country will not change for the “foreseeable future,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

Air travelers already give up their shoes and bottled water to pass through security checkpoints at New York City’s three major airports.

AP – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday that a 17 percent drop in Border Patrol arrests this year shows that heightened enforcement is slowing illegal immigration.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a $600 million measure that will put more agents and equipment along the Mexican border. Obama signed the bill in the Oval Office alongside Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano . It will pay for the hiring of 1,000 new Border …

AP – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is meeting privately with her successor as Arizona governor as the Obama administration challenges the state’s immigration law.

AP – NEW ORLEANS — The tropical storm plowing across the Gulf of Mexico could send oil skimmers back to port and make containment booms useless, even from far away. But the rough weather also might give nature a hand in breaking down crude from the massive oil spill

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