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Failing to prepare for extreme weather events has cost the United States $1.15 trillion in economic losses from 1980 to 2010 and could cost another trillion in coming years.

The U.S. Justice Department has accused United States Investigations Services (USIS) of filing at least 665,000 flawed background checks – about 40 percent of the total submissions – between March 2008 and September 2012.

A Pew Research poll says that most of the American public is tuning out the policy debate over government surveillance.

Barack Obama announced he would end the National Security Agency’s ability to store phone data collected from millions of Americans.

The California State Senate is considering a bill to prohibit law enforcement agencies in California from selling data collected by automatic license plate readers.

The Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report reveals that threats designed to take advantage of users’ trust in systems, applications and personal networks have reached startling levels.

A federal judge has ruled that Chicago's ban on the sale of firearms is unconstitutional.

The Obama administration proposed two new executive actions to make it easier for states to provide mental health information to the national background check system.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection can search travelers’ laptops and other electronic devices without a show of reasonable suspicion.

Boston police are clashing with the city's incoming mayor over a proposal to arm some officers with AR-15 rifles.