According to a survey of nearly 3,000 gun owners, 40% reported having at least one firearm in their home that was not locked up. The presence of children in the home did not make a difference.
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A newly-passed U.S. law establishes a practice known as “banning the box” as federal policy for hundreds of thousands of public and private jobs.
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Just two days after Attorney General William Barr demanded help from Apple and other technology companies to access older model iPhones used by the Naval Air Station Pensacola shooter, Forbes uncovered a search warrant that strongly indicates the FBI already have access to a tool that can extract data from the latest and most secure iPhones.
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The Israel – U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation announced three awards for collaborative projects totaling $2.3 million to develop advanced technologies for the homeland security mission.
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The University of Kentucky recently received $3 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on General Medical Sciences to fund new opioid-related research in the criminal justice system.
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Coming from a disadvantaged background, experiencing violence within the family, having a negative school environment or consuming violent media have little or no direct influence on potential criminal behavior among adolescents, but do result in young people regarding violent acts as harmless.
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A new study found that 6-to-12 months after traumatic injury, rates of chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other poor physical and mental health outcomes were alarmingly high among survivors of firearm violence—even higher than among survivors who had sustained similar injuries in motor vehicle crashes.
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As the drug epidemic began to unfold in the United States, deaths classified as drug-related for 15- to 64-year-olds hit 9% in 2016, up from about 4% seven years prior. But new research suggests drug-associated mortality in this country is actually more than double that.
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Due to the prevalence of feral cats across the United States, understanding the patterns and behaviors of scavenging cats is important to distinguishing between perimortem and postmortem tissue damage in corpses exposed to outdoor settings.
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New research is one of the first to identify common attributes of cybercrime networks, revealing how these groups function and work together to cause an estimated $445-600 billion of harm globally per year.
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