Mary Landrieu (D) and Republican U.S. Representative Bill Cassidy, all indicators pointed to a landslide victory for Cassidy. The Republican kept a low profile leading up to the election and national Democrats backed out of the race completely.

Law enforcement has more than 30 years of experience with recording interactions with the public via in-car cameras, but has much less practical experience with the newer concept of body-worn cameras.

Some European law enforcement agencies have embraced almost every imaginable form of video surveillance and recording for many years, while few municipalities within the United States have enough experience from which to draw conclusions.

The announcement this week that the officer who killed Eric Garner would not be tried for homicide has further fueled public debate as to the appropriate level of force police officers use while in perceived danger. In 2014 alone, over 496 individuals have died in incidents with law enforcement officers, some of whom did not posses a weapon.

Facebook has announced, yet again, that it will be updating its privacy terms effective January 1, 2015.

The good news? Facebook's new policy is 70 percent shorter than the old one. The bad news? Not a whole lot will change to protect your privacy online.

Here are 3 key takeaways from Facebook’s updated privacy terms:  

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WASHINGTON, D.C.— A federal official with the nation’s top auto safety regulator vowed at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday that the agency would consider every legal measure available against a Japanese auto parts supplier suspected of providing car manufacturers with faulty airbags that investigators have linked to the deaths of at least five people, four of them Americans.

bill gaining speed on the Hill aims to make changes within the VA's mental health care system that proponents hope will reduce the veteran suicide epidemic.

It is no secret that the veteran suicide rate is extremely high, with 22 veterans per day taking their own lives. It's also no secret that health care in general, and mental health care in particular, is lacking in the VA health care system. Unfortunately, the VA is the only option that many veterans have for their care.

To clarify, no matter how they came to this country, whether by sneaking in or by invitation, or how hard they may have worked for the rest of their life, no one who participated in war crimes should get government benefits -- whether we are talking about Nazis or other war criminals. This is something most people will agree with.

The concept of using video recording devices in law enforcement is a very old idea. As early as the 1960s, departments toyed with the idea of installing cameras in squad cars, which at that time took up the entire front passenger area and half of the trunk for battery cells.