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The Federal Communications Commission is reviewing its 22-year ban against in-flight cellphone calls, but opposition is already flooding in, especially regarding the potential noise level increase. 

Baseball fans should expect to go through a metal detector to see their favorite team play in 2014.

The Oakland, Calif., City Council has voted 6-1 to move ahead with a controversial city surveillance center (the Domain Awareness Center), which would allow police and city officials to continuously monitor video cameras, gunshot detectors and license-plate readers across the city.

As Chicago works to entice foreign tourists, France is telling its citizens to avoid Chicago’s West Side and the South Side below 59^th Street.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations and El Salvador’s National Police signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) November 14  to further define and strengthen the relationship between the agencies, especially regarding the Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit, an ICE press release states.

A group of 12 lower Manhattan residents and one shop owner are suing the police, claiming that the NYPD's security plan for the World Trade Center will leave the area in "fortresslike isolation."

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Shrink, comprised of shoplifting, employee or supplier fraud, organized retail crime and administrative errors, cost the retail industry more than $112 billion globally last year, according to the 2012-2013 Global Retail Theft Barometer, and represented 1.4 percent of retail sales, on average.

As we honor the men and women who protect the United States, Security magazine would like to take a moment to reflect on those who have served, who are on active duty, and who have died for their country.