The role is key to Trump’s plans for his second term after pledging to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and impose ...

The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday by a 59-34 vote, putting the former South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national ...

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem arrives for the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington ...

She witnessed both criminal and civil enforcement operations, sources said. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined an immigration enforcement operation in New York City on Tuesday.

Republicans kept the Senate working Saturday to install the latest member of Trump’s national security team on a 59-34 vote.

South Dakota governor Kristi Noem was confirmed as the United States’ new Secretary of Homeland Security Saturday by vote of 59 to 34 in the Senate. The confirmation was considerably less ...

WASHINGTON − South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will be the new secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the fourth of President Donald Trump's nominees to now be confirmed. Noem earned the ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was sworn in as Department of Homeland Security secretary by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at his home Saturday, following a scheduling hiccup earlier in the day.

Noem's full name is Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem and she was born in 1971 in Watertown, in east central South Dakota. The city is ...

As homeland security secretary, Noem will lead a sprawling federal department with a $60 billion budget and more than 230,000 employees, tasked with implementing Trump’s ambitious efforts to ...

She added that "if given the chance to be secretary of homeland security, that I will deliver the programs according to the law and that it will be done with no political bias." ...