The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed U.S. Sen. Mark Warner’s CAMPUS Safety Act, which would consolidate federal campus safety efforts into the National Center for Campus Public Safety.
Despite growing opposition from airlines and industry unions to the TSA's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes, the agency's head said he is not backing down.
A new cloud-computing platform would send difficult computing tasks to the cloud instead of using on-board computing, leading to faster, smarter robots.
A massive scheme among insurance agents, claims adjusters, brokers and farmers to defraud the federal crop insurance program has been uncovered by Federal investigators.
The contentious proposal to reinstate the assault weapons ban has been postponed, but measures to extend background checks to private gun sales and fund school security improvements have been voted through to the Senate.