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News Articles: TSA

Passengers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint while traveling at Los Angeles International Airport in November 2025.

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  • National

Travel industry pushes Congress to end DHS shutdown and pay federal security workers

With the busy spring break travel season looming, travel and aviation industry leaders urged Congress to end the stalemate over DHS funding before workers at TSA and ports miss a full paycheck.

March 05, 2026
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By:
  • Joel Rose
From left: Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO), Punch (lonely monkey) and Flavor Flav (icon).

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  • National

Forget the State of the Union. What's the state of your quiz score?

What's the state of your union, quiz-wise? Find out!

February 27, 2026
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By:
  • Holly J. Morris
The Department of Homeland Security's sign is seen outside its headquarters on February 13, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

5 things to know about the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security

The sprawling agency saw its baseline funding expire after lawmakers left town for a week-long recess, but without a deal to rein in the conduct of federal immigration officers.

February 14, 2026
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo,
  • Joel Rose,
  • and 2 more
Travellers wait to go through security at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport in Atlanta, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022.

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  • News

Shutdown another difficult moment for Georgia's nearly 111,000 federal workers

GPB's Orlando Montoya spoke about the potential economic effects of the government shutdown with Ray Hill, associate professor of finance at Emory University's Goizueta School of Business.

October 01, 2025
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Traffic crosses the Oakland San Francisco Bay Bridge in California on Thursday, kicking off what's expected to be a congested Memorial Day Weekend.

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  • National

Memorial Day Weekend travel could break records. Here's how to prepare for your trip

AAA predicts a record-breaking 45.1 million Americans will travel between Thursday and Monday, mostly by car and plane. Here's what to know if you're one of them.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
A Transportation Security Administration agent stands at a security checkpoint at Miami International Airport on Dec. 20, 2024. The federal government is preparing to begin implementing Real ID rules in May.

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  • National

What you need to know as the May 7 Real ID deadline approaches

Driver's licenses and IDs that are not Real ID-compliant will no longer get you through U.S. airport security once the law takes effect in a few weeks, but full enforcement may not start right away.

April 10, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
FILE - A Delta Air Lines plane leaves the gate July 12, 2021, at Logan International Airport in Boston. A Delta flight from Seattle to Honolulu was delayed on Tuesday afternoon after an unticketed passenger was discovered onboard the aircraft.

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  • National

Delta apologizes — again — after another stowaway boards a flight without ticket

The incident marks the second time in less than a month that an unticketed passenger was discovered on a Delta Air Lines flight, this time en route to Hawaii.

December 27, 2024
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By:
  • Rebecca Rosman
A Transportation Security Administration worker screens luggage at New York's LaGuardia Airport on Sept. 26, 2017. The TSA says it found a record number of firearms at airport security checkpoints last year.

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  • National

TSA found record number of firearms at airport checkpoints in 2023. Most were loaded

The number of firearms found at airport security checkpoints has reached an all-time high. Agency officials said the No. 1 reason passengers give is that they forgot they were carrying them.

January 11, 2024
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By:
  • Diba Mohtasham

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  • News

Government workers prepare to work without pay as possible shutdown looms

Thousands of Georgians may have to work without getting a paycheck if Congress cannot reach a budget deal by Friday.

November 13, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
A Delta Air Lines plane takes off from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta, Nov. 22, 2022. Delta announced Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, that it will provide free Wi-Fi service on most of its U.S. flights starting in February.

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  • News

Delta says pilot accused of threatening to shoot the captain no longer works for the airline

Delta Air Lines says the pilot accused of threatening to shoot the plane's captain during a flight no longer works for the airline. Delta said Wednesday it would not comment further on the incident, which happened on a flight last year.

November 01, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press
A television displays a "no guns" sign at the Transportation Security Administration security area at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Atlanta. Last year saw a record number of guns intercepted at airport checkpoints across the country.

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  • National

A record 6,542 guns — 18 a day — were intercepted at U.S. airport security in 2022

With the exception of pandemic-disrupted 2020, the number of weapons intercepted at U.S. airport checkpoints has climbed every year since 2010.

February 20, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Travelers arrive for flights at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on Dec. 16.

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  • National

The TSA found a record number of guns in carry-on bags this year

The TSA found 6,301 firearms in carry-on bags, most of which were loaded, in 2022.

December 18, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Passengers at O'Hare International Airport, in Chicago, wait in line to be screened at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint in 2016.

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  • National

Ahead of the holidays, the cost for TSA PreCheck is dropping

The bulk of TSA PreCheck passengers spent less than five minutes at security checkpoints.

November 05, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
Two men identified by authorities as hijackers Mohamed Atta (right) and Abdulaziz Alomari (center) pass through airport security on Sept. 11, 2001, at Portland International Jetport in Maine in an image from airport surveillance tape released on Sept. 19, 2001.

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  • National

It Was Shoes On, No Boarding Pass Or ID. But Airport Security Forever Changed On 9/11

No boarding pass or ID was needed to go to the gate, and 4-inch-blade knives were allowed aboard planes. Now we take off shoes, can't have liquids over 3.4 oz and go through high-tech body scanners.

September 10, 2021
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By:
  • David Schaper
Travelers wearing protective face masks wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration screening at LaGuardia Airport in New York last month. U.S. aviation regulators are calling on the nation's airports to crack down on the defiantly unmasked.

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  • Health

TSA Is Doubling Fines For Those Who Refuse To Wear A Mask While Flying

President Biden says, "If you break the rules, be prepared to pay." He calls the harassment aimed at airline employees over masks "wrong" and "ugly."

September 10, 2021
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By:
  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
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