WASHINGTON — She was one of the brightest students at a leading university when the Central Intelligence Agency offered her a job as a counter-terrorism analyst. But first, the 19-year-old was warned, ...

King County Sheriff John Urquhart’s chief of staff failed a polygraph test required for his employment in 2012 and shouldn’t have been hired, a detective who reviewed the test results later concluded.

Alex Murdaugh failed a polygraph test administered as part of the plea agreement for the disgraced former attorney's raft of financial crimes, violating the deal, which required his truthfulness, ...

Most people think polygraphs — also called lie-detector tests — can determine whether you're lying. But the technology has its critics. "The public needs to know that polygraph testing has no ...

Attorneys for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who’s accused Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, released the results of a polygraph test focused on the decades-old ...

Prior to testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Christine Blasey Ford took a polygraph test about her allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her in high ...

Polygraph test results are also generally inadmissible in federal courts and in most state courts because of doubts about their reliability. Statements or admissions made by test subjects during a ...