Shabana Mahmood’s announcement that facial recognition is to be rolled out across the nation is no vague statement of aspiration.

Since the start of the second Trump administration, there's been open debate about whether the United States is descending into a modern high-tech surveillance state. But is there any truth to that?

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On Sunday night, a gunman opened fire at a concert in Las Vegas near the Mandalay Bay Casino, where an estimated 22,000 people had gathered for a country music show. Early estimates have put the death ...

The New Orleans City Council is considering an ordinance that would allow the city's police department, in the name of fighting crime, to use real-time facial recognition technology to find and track ...

The federal government is seeking to unseal long-classified FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr. nearly two years before their court-ordered release date (January 2027) and 56 years ...

A screaming 16-year-old girl in Worcester, Massachusetts struggles in the arms of two police officers. It is May 9, 2025 and her frantic, unintelligible screams pierce the morning air, as more ...