DHS did not respond to a request for comment. For more than two decades, the FBI’s Combined DNA Index System, or CODIS, has been billed as a tool for violent crime investigations. But under both ...

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 ...

The United States government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal ...

Every year, thousands of murders in the United States remain unsolved. Today, there are 300,000 cold cases on the books, with thousands more added annually. However, a revolutionary technology — ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After 30 years, Austin city leaders announced the infamous yogurt shop murders had been solved. Austin Police Chief of Police Lisa Davis said, “advances in science and technology” ...

As if the regular detainment of children isn’t bad enough, documents show that U.S. immigration authorities are adding their DNA to a criminal database. In less than five years, the U.S. has collected ...

It's been nearly a year since the Austin Police Department detailed new insight into a possible link between two homicides committed years apart but with similar locations and victim profiles. During ...

For years, Customs and Border Protection agents have been quietly harvesting DNA from American citizens, including minors, and funneling the samples into an FBI crime database, government data shows.