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TSA to Allow Older Travelers to Keep Shoes On, Avoid Pat-Downs

The provisions are part of an effort to move away from streamlined, across-the-board security policies and instead focus on potentially riskier fliers.

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Cleared for Takeoff: Rhode Island Bakery Creates TSA ‘Compliant Cupcake’

Who knew cupcakes were a security threat? The saga has inspired one bakery to create a security-safe confection.

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Delicious But Dangerous: TSA Stands By Cupcake Confiscation

Attention all fliers: your cupcake is a flight risk – if it’s in a jar, that is. And that’s an order served piping hot from the TSA.

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Elderly Woman Claims TSA Agents Strip-Searched Her

Though Lenore Zimmerman says she plans to sue, the TSA claims she wasn’t strip-searched in the first place.

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Young Gun: Teen Stopped By TSA Over Pistol-Embroidered Purse

This takes the term “fashion police” to another level.

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Missiles May Be Part of Security Strategy at 2012 Olympic Games

Faster, higher, stronger! No, we’re not talking about athletes — we’re talking about the security.

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Bathroom Breaks Cause Security Scares on Two Sept. 11 Flights

Two incidents in airplane bathrooms put fighter jets, bomb squads and FBI centers to work on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

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Security Standoff: Woman Arrested After Allegedly Groping TSA Agent

Yukari Miyamae resisted a pat-down with a tactile act of her own.

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Man Boards Flight with Someone Else’s Expired Boarding Pass and a Student ID

FBI agents arrested Nigerian man Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi Wednesday after he attempted to board a flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta after having already flown from New York to Los Angeles using an old boarding pass in someone else’s name.

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Security Catch-22: Airports Can Opt Out of TSA Screeners, But It’s Not Easy

Airport administrators across the country trying to opt out of using TSA screeners for security checks are required to explain how private screening would be advantageous to the TSA. Only problem is the TSA won’t disclose what that means.