The polygraph, known more commonly as the “lie detector,” has a long and controversial history as a forensic tool, but it has also been used in a variety of other contexts, including employment ...

EXCLUSIVE — Casey Anthony's father appeared in front of his Florida home for the first time this week ahead of the release of a TV special set to premiere Thursday at 9 p.m. ET, in which he and his ...

The Omaha Police Department has eliminated one of its requirements for hiring new recruits — the polygraph test, commonly ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is using polygraph tests to figure out who could be leaking information to news outlets, with some agency officials contending the disclosed information has ...

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld sparked outrage after suggesting Savannah Guthrie take a lie detector test over her missing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The FBI has reportedly stepped up its use of polygraph lie-detector tests on bureau staff, as Director Kash Patel allegedly hunts ...

The head of a federal agency was reportedly given a polygraph test after an apparent news leak — even though such “lie detection” measures are considered junk science. As Politico reports, a lie ...

Emily Simpson's Persian New Year party on The Real Housewives of Orange County included some unexpected guests: a pair of polygraph examiners. After pulling a bait-and-switch by asking her castmates — ...

The polygraph is not a lie detector but rather an instrument that measures a person’s physiological changes to questions posed by the examiner. An elevated physiological response to a particular ...

In February of 1994, the FBI arrested Aldrich Ames, who had been a CIA employee for 31 years. Ames was arrested and charged with espionage. He was a Russian spy. For nine years, he had been passing ...