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Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee who blew the lid off of the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs, has released the U.S. intelligence community’s classified “black budget” for fiscal year 2013.

In the aftermath of the fatal bombing at last April’s Boston Marathon, the Bank of America Chicago Marathon has tightened security measures in several areas for the Oct. 13 race.

The Republican-controlled Missouri legislature is expected to enact a statute next month nullifying all federal gun laws in the state and making it a crime for federal agents to enforce them there.

State police in Virginia recorded and collected the whereabouts of potentially millions of people in an effort to monitor attendees at political rallies in 2008 and 2009, according to Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. 

The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations. 

In her farewell speech, outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano says that the U.S. will soon face a major cyber attack with serious impacts on the economy and society as a whole.

Local and Ohio state law enforcement have used facial recognition software several thousand times since June to match images of possible suspects and victims to pictures on Ohio drivers’ licenses, the state’s attorney general said Monday, The Associated Press reports.

Authorities in Germany are stepping up security on the country's rail system, including deploying more plain-clothes police officers. 

The National Drug Intelligence Center reported there were Mexican drug trafficking organizations active in more than 1,000 U.S. cities, but that depends on your definition of a cartel.

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America wants patrons to avoid the coffee chain Saturday, declaring 'guns in places like Starbucks is intimidating and unnecessary risk to our children and families.