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Comment4/23/13
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TSA delays allowing small knives on planes
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Federal officials say they're delaying a policy that would allow passengers to carry small knives, bats and other sports equipment onto airliners.
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TSA sticks to new plan allowing small knives on planes
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The head of the Transportation Security Administration says the agency is moving forward with plans to allow small knives on planes, despite the fierce opposition by flight attendants and some passengers.
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Man accidentally tries to carry gun onto plane at Reagan National Airport
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The Transportation Security Administration says a passenger at Reagan National Airport was stopped and cited after an officer found a loaded gun in his carry-on bag at a checkpoint.
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Flight attendants ask Congress to overturn new TSA rule on knives
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A large group of flight attendants, who call themselves the last line of defense in an attack on a commercial flight, gathered in the shadow of the Capitol Thursday. They called on Congress to pass a bill overturning a new TSA decision about knives on aircraft.
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TSA confiscates live grenade, stun gun at Dulles
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A Great Falls, Va. man tried to take a live smoke grenade on board an airplane at Dulles Sunday, police say. Two days earlier, the TSA confiscated a stun gun from another passenger.
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TSA allowance of small knives receives backlash
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Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment like souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs onto planes.
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TSA to allow small knives, bats, clubs on planes
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Airline passengers will be able to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment onto planes beginning next month under a policy change announced Tuesday by the head of the TSA.
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TSA removing naked body image scanners from airports
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One of the most controversial, and in many cases despised, airport security devices in recent air travel history is being removed, the TSA says, as they're getting rid of airport body scanners that produce a naked image of travelers.
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TSA app aims to help travelers with long lines, holiday travel
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As we are in the midst of the holiday season, most of us are excited about the prospect of days off and visiting with family and friends. The not-so-exciting part: holiday travel lines and crowds.
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Cancer patient Michelle Dunaj embarrassed by TSA
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A leukemia patient making what she calls an "end-of-life" trip to Hawaii says she was embarrassed by security agents at the Seattle airport who refused her request for a private pat-down and made her lift her shirt and pull back her bandages.
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TSA finds two knives in carry-on at Dulles
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As the bag passed through security, the TSA noticed a switchblade and a “boot knife” in the bottom of the carry-on.
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TSA PreCheck comes to Dulles International Airport
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The new screening program aims to streamline the process of getting through TSA checkpoints.
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TSA fires screeners for being distracted by cellphones
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The Transportation Security Administration has moved to fire six bag-screeners and suspend 14 others at Logan International Airport in Boston for performing inadequate luggage checks, some because they were distracted by their cellphones or other electronic devices.
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Americans, others on no-fly list not banned from flight schools
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Americans on the no-fly list are not prevented from learning how to fly at flight schools. And the owner of a flight school approved by TSA--and 25 students at the school--were found to be in the country illegally.
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TSA agent spilled grandfather's ashes, Indiana man says
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An Indiana man wants to be issued an apology after he says a Florida TSA agent spilled his grandfather's ashes at a security checkpoint.
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Delta passengers removed from flight out of D.C.
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Two passengers were removed from a Delta flight out of Reagan National Airport Thursday morning.
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Toddler on no-fly list, family doesn't plan legal action
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A computer glitch is apparently to blame for a toddler being on the U.S. no-fly list, and after the girl was pulled off a plane in South Florida, they don't plan to take any legal action.
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