Jan 12 Watch Mission to Mexico Mexican President Vicente Fox praised President Bush's immigration proposals while the two attended the Summit of the Americas in Mexico with leaders from 34 other nations. Following a background report on the summit, experts discuss U.S.-Mexican relations. Continue watching
Jan 09 Supreme Court Accepts Case Testing Enemy Combatant Detention By Admin, PBS News Hour The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a U.S. citizen seized abroad can be kept indefinitely in a military jail, the latest in a series of legal challenges to the Bush administration's antiterrorism policies. Continue reading
Jan 09 U.S. Lowers National Terror Alert Level to 'Elevated' By PBS News Hour Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced Friday that the U.S. terror alert level is being reduced from "high" to "elevated," although some heightened security measures will remain in place. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch Asa Hutchinson Citing new security measures and a decrease in volume of intelligence, U.S. Homeland Security officials moved Friday to lower the terrorism alert status from "high" to "elevated." Undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security Asa Hutchinson discusses that decision and… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch Domestic Security The U.S. VISIT program went into operation Monday, with foreign visitors to the United States being fingerprinted and photographed upon entering the country. Ray Suarez gets two perspectives on the new antiterrorism program's feasibility. Continue watching
Jan 02 Security Alert Prompts More Flight Cancellations By PBS News Hour A British Airways flight from London to Washington, D.C., was cancelled for a second day Friday as the U.S. government and its allies continued to scrutinize flights coming into the United States for possible terrorist threats. Continue reading
Jan 02 Watch Security Alert Since the government raised the terror warning level to orange, or high, last month, at least ten U.S.-bound flights from foreign countries have been cancelled, delayed or escorted to the airport by jet fighters. Paul Davies updates the situation and… Continue watching
Jan 01 Watch Quake Aftermath in Iran Rescue crews pulled two more survivors from the rubble today in the Iranian city of Bam, which was almost entirely leveled by an earthquake Friday. Ray Suarez speaks with Dr. Bill Barker of the Fairfax County (Virginia) Urban Search and… Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch Holiday Security Concerns As Americans prepared to ring in the new year, unprecedented security measures were in place from coast to coast. Spencer Michels offers a report on the security preparations. Continue watching
Dec 31 Watch Holiday Security Concerns As Americans prepared to ring in the new year, unprecedented security measures were in place from coast to coast. Homeland security and counterterrorism experts assess the heightened terror alert and the nation's security preparations. Continue watching