Twenty-six states allow police to search photo ID databases for criminals, victims and witnesses. How advances in facial recognition are transforming law enforcement and raising privacy concerns.

Family members of the victims of the Newtown shooting honored their lost loved ones in a remembrance at the Capitol.

Whistle-blowers who expose crime, corruption and abuse of power have protections under the law. Understanding when revealing top secret information is an act of heroism or a crime.

Fuel filter screens are being removed from D.C. ambulances after one clogged and caused an ambulance to shutdown as it took a gunshot victim to the hospital. 

Kojo chats with Washington Post investigative reporter Robert O'Harrow about the nature of the domestic surveillance programs disclosed by media outlets during the past week.

Kojo explores how far the scientific community has come in developing new technology and surveillance programs for tracking, predicting and preventing global disease outbreaks.

The Guardian newspaper revealed the second largest phone company in the U.S., Verizon, is handing over millions of private phone records to government agencies. We explore the legal, political and privacy issues around domestic surveillance.

We'll spend the wee hours of the morning with a rookie cop, and find out what it's really like to "protect and serve" as a police officer.

As summer interns descend upon the District, we tip our hats to the newbies, novices and neophytes among us.