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Opinion: I Want My GPS Back!

(Feb. 1) – Of all the indignities hurled at travelers in the wake of the Christmas Day bomb attempt, none has been more distressing than the Transportation Security Administration's directive that airlines disable their global positioning systems. Immediately after the incident on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, TSA...

Americans: Bring on the Body Scanners, Poll Says

(Jan. 11) -- A majority of the nation's air travelers say they're willing to "digitally undress" for airport full-body scanners if it means preventing terrorists from carrying explosives onto airplanes. In a USA Today/Gallup poll released Monday, 78 percent of respondents approve of the use of state-of-the-art scanners at...

Man Slides Through Security at Newark Airport

NEWARK, N.J. (Jan. 4) -- A man walked through a screening checkpoint exit into the secure side of a terminal at one of the nation's busiest airports on Sunday night, and flights were grounded for hours and passengers had to be re-screened while air safety officials searched for him. Airline passengers were allowed to...

Passengers on US-Bound Flights Face More Screening

WASHINGTON (Jan. 4) -- People traveling to the United States from or through Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and 11 other countries were subjected to extra security screening, including full body pat-downs, Monday as U.S. officials refined their response to a failed terrorist attack in Detroit on Christmas. The...

Airline Passengers See Tighter Security

DETROIT (Dec. 27) – The U.S. government tightened airline security as it searches for answers to how a 23-year-old Nigerian man eluded extensive systems intended to prevent attacks like his botched Christmas Day effort to blow up a Northwest flight from overseas. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who claimed ties to...