“The polygraph has been weaponized and is being used against individuals who have never had a polygraph requirement, whether pre-employment or security, in their entire federal careers,” said Mark ...

[UPDATE: The boy was found Wednesday afternoon. Get the latest here]. DETROIT (WWJ) - While Detroit police say they're not ruling out the possibility that a missing 12-year-old Detroit boy was ...

AKRON, Ohio - City Council repealed outdated legislation Monday that mandated lie-detector tests be administered to some applicants for city jobs. Prior to the vote, Human Resources Department ...

Louisiana angler, Sam Huckabee, while fishing a crank-bait through the stumps in an oxbow on the Red River, set his hook on what he thought was a bass bite. But as he tried reeling in his catch he ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., (WDRB) -- The man accused of fatally stabbing a 12-year-old boy in Cherokee Park on Sept. 30 failed a polygraph test given to him by police a few days after the slaying, initially ...

Authorities in south-east Missouri today charged a neighbour of the family in connection with the disappearance of a toddler last seen riding her bicycle in front of her home last weekend. Shawn ...

The demand to cast an ever-wider net of security across the country has created a rush to embrace technologies that have demonstrated a sometimes staggering propensity for snaring the innocent. Since ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. When President Ronald Reagan’s White House threatened thousands of government ...