Government employees experienced a rate of nonfatal workplace violence that was more than three times the rate for private-sector employees during 2011.
The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that includes big banks, utilities and key transportation companies having emails and Web surfing scanned.
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.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will let people carry small pocketknives onto passenger planes for the first time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.