Before boarding an international flight, the 23-year-old was arrested, and Port Authority officials discovered a 3,800-watt stun gun in his carry-on luggage.
The New York Police Department's practice of stopping, questioning and frisking people on the street is facing its biggest legal challenge with a federal civil rights trial on whether the tactic unfairly targets minorities.
A federal judge has ruled unconstitutional national security provisions that permit federal investigators to access customer information from some companies without court approval.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s CAMPUS Safety Act, which would consolidate federal campus safety efforts into the National Center for Campus Public Safety.
Despite growing opposition from airlines and industry unions to the TSA's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes, the agency's head said he is not backing down.
A new cloud-computing platform would send difficult computing tasks to the cloud instead of using on-board computing, leading to faster, smarter robots.