Kylie Cooper / REUTERS Kristi Noem isn’t leaving the Department of Homeland Security all by herself. The newly fired DHS secretary, 54, is bringing nearly a dozen of her staffers over to the State Department, where she will lead a drug cartel-fighting initiative launched by 79-year-old President Donald Trump just days after her termination. An administration official told Politico that 10 of Noem’s staffers at DHS will join her in her new role as special envoy for The Shield of the Americas – Western Hemisphere. Read more at The Daily Beast.