For years, the federal government has been amassing DNA profiles of noncitizens. But recently released Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data reveal that officials knowingly collected the DNA of ...

A national DNA database helped police identify a suspect in the decades-old cases.

Over about a year in the mid-2000s, four women reported being attacked by a man in the area of Terminal Street in Charlestown. Despite possessing the attacker’s DNA, Boston Police were stumped. More ...

A recent cold case that was solved in Pierce County is highlighting the importance of CODIS ― The Combined DNA Index System — that lets federal, state, and local forensic labs exchange and compare DNA ...

The government must prevent police from storing the profiles of innocent people on the national DNA database, an influential group of experts has said.

MESQUITE, Texas — Investigators with the Mesquite Police Department, along with their FBI partners, have announced that a 27-year-old man has been arrested this week in connection to a 2014 cold case ...

The failure of Scottish policing bodies to record the ethnicity of arrested people it takes DNA samples from means there is no way of establishing whether minority groups are over-represented in ...