Terrorist attacks and deaths were on the decline worldwide for the second year in a row in 2016, according to The Country Reports on Terrorism report from the US Department of State.

Three in ten (29 percent) travel managers report they do not know how long it would take to locate affected employees in a crisis, according to a study by the GBTA Foundation.

New research suggests fear of crime is contagious, and can quickly spread among residents of even low-crime communities.

Employees from the Aviation Center of Excellence at Fort Rucker, Alabama, have developed a phone app that will help soldiers and civilians survive an active-shooter response situation.

Rural and urban gun owners differ in many ways, says a new Pew Research Center survey.

An Alabama construction company is offering free assault rifles to anyone who gets a roof done.

No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as "accidents" – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to a National Safety Council report.

U.S. residents experienced an average of 250,000 hate crime victimizations each year from 2004 to 2015 and the majority of these were not reported to police.

Pennsylvania's Senate is advancing legislation that would set ground rules for school districts that allow employees to possess a gun on school grounds.

A report from Princeton Survey Research Associates International shows that two thirds of U.S. adults feel they would be prepared if an emergency or disaster struck their community today, including 20 percent who say they would be very prepared.