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Police have closed streets between Baton Rouge Police Headquarters and I-12 where law enforcement officers have been shot and killed....

President Barack Obama is using Dallas shootings to push his agenda to federalize state and local police forces....

When a police officer encounters a suspect hurling insults, making verbal threats, or otherwise spouting off at the mouth, it may be tempting for the officer to talk back. But what you say can come back to haunt you. Here are five things you never want to hear yourself...

If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue and rule that the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless cellphone searches. In 2007, the police...

A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon, is expected to address the meeting on Wednesday....

Dozens of police departments nationwide are gearing up to use a tech company's already controversial iris- and facial-scanning device that slides over an iPhone and helps identify a person or track criminal suspects. The so-called "biometric" technology, which seems to take a page from TV shows like "MI-5" or...

The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a...

Women arrested by the Egyptian police during protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square were subjected to forced 'virginity tests', according to Amnesty International. Eighteen demonstrators were detained after army officers cleared the square on March 9 at the end of weeks of protest. Amnesty today said that the women had...