domestic terrorism

The Department of Homeland Security released an updated National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin on Wednesday, warning that social and politically motivated domestic extremism is expected to carry over from 2021 into the new year.

Chloe Wohlforth was just 16 years old when her father died in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Those events continue to shape her life today.

The Department of Homeland Security has begun implementing a strategy to gather and analyze intelligence about security threats from public social media posts, DHS officials said.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday pressed Congress for increased funding on a variety of Justice Department priorities, including combating domestic terrorism, protecting civil rights, prosecuting hate crimes and battling the opioid epidemic. Testifying for the first time as attorney general before a House Appropriations subcommittee, Garland also spoke about policing reforms, including a budget request to enhance community-oriented policing....

Amy Downs fell three stories and was trapped under rubble for hours in April 1995, after a truck full of explosives blew up in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City. The blast killed 168 people. Downs recalls her experience of life flashing before her eyes, and her journey through grief to now becoming the CEO of the credit...

NBC News reports The Department of Homeland Security, created after the 9/11 attacks to protect the country from international terrorism, is moving toward a sweeping set of policy changes aimed at detecting and stopping what intelligence officials say is now a top threat to the homeland: domestic violent extremism. Two senior Biden administration officials told NBC News that DHS, whose intelligence...

The U.S. has a long history of domestic terrorist attacks. And many of them are directly rooted in racism and white supremacy. Kurt Braddock of American University joined LX News to explain to help explain why white supremacy and domestic terrorism is such a persistent problem for our country — and why our digital lives are making people susceptible to...