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The Transportation Security Administration is now using dogs to pre-screen passengers, sniffing for explosives before travelers get to the metal detectors and X-ray machines, MSN News reports.

Mistakes in evaluating private screeners' applications have reignited the conversation over whether private screeners can be as efficient as TSA screeners.

In the first six months of this year, Transportation Security Administration screeners found 894 guns on passengers or in their carry-on bags, a 30 percent increase over the same period last year. 

Alan Robinson, of Atlantic Health System, was named to the state's task force responsible for setting homeland security and domestic preparedness policy.

The U.S. Park Police is failing to adequately keep track of its firearms, creating an environment in which weapons are vulnerable to theft or misuse, according to a government report.

Slightly more than 190,000 firearms were reported lost or stolen across the country last year, according to a report by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.

The median dollar value of items and cash stolen during completed household burglaries increased 54 percent from 1994 to 2011.

The NY City Council passed two bills to rein in the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk. 

The Drug Enforcement Administration is carrying out their biggest sweep against designer synthetic drugs this week.

TSA screeners taking their time may actually be most effective at the security gate, according to a new study.