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Seattle is poised to become the first in the nation to provide direct funding for research into the causes and effects of gun violence.

Despite growing awareness of hate crimes, the share of those crimes reported to police has fallen in recent years.

The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that includes big banks, utilities and key transportation companies having emails and Web surfing scanned.

Sen. Fred Risser, D-Madison, began circulating a bill that would ban people from carrying guns at the state Capitol.

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.

Cyberattacks got top billing on the list of security threats facing the U.S.

A federal appeals court has placed restrictions on officers' authority to search laptop computers at U.S. border inspections.  

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.

Cameras trained on city streets and alleys would be accessible by police under the council member's proposal, but others are uncertain about how the allowance would affect their right to privacy.