We may never know for certain what happened to Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. While passing through airport security, Rand was kept from boarding a flight after refusing to undergo a pat-down. Or detained. Or something. Read full article > >
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Alexandra Petri: Rand Paul is right about the TSA
The man was preparing to board a flight in Midland, Tex., when explosives in military-grade wrapping were discovered in his luggage, officials said.
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Serviceman Held in Midland, Tex., After Explosives Found in Luggage
The Transportation Security Administration is testing a program that does not require travelers to remove shoes and belts nor to display laptops and liquids and gels.
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On the Road: T.S.A. Eases Security for Chosen Fliers – On the Road
A union will be allowed to bargain on behalf of the nation’s airport security officers, but not on issues like pay.
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Unions Can Bargain on Behalf of Airport Security
When it comes to airport security, Americans have a case of cold feet.
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Survey: TSA pat-down not worst part
When the body of North Carolina teenager Delvonte Tisdale was found mutilated in Massachusetts, authorities thought he’d been murdered-but they now believe that he fell from a commercial airplane. Tisdale, 16, apparently breached airport security and…
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Teen Fell From Commercial Airplane
India’s ambassador to the US Meera Shankar is pulled from an airport security line and frisked by a security agent in Mississippi.
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India envoy frisked at US airport
An outcry about airport security became a story about a story, the noisy sound of a news system feeding on itself.
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The Media Equation: A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A.
What furore over airport security says about the American soul
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Pulled apart
At what point has this gone too far? Breast cancer survivor Cathy Bossi, a flight attendant for 32 years, was forced by airport security to remove and show a TSA agent her prosthetic breast at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. “She put her full…
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TSA Makes Woman Show Prosthetic Breast
Pilots’ unions for US Airways and American Airlines are urging their members to avoid full-body scanning at airport security checkpoints, citing health risks and concerns about intrusiveness and security officer behavior.
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Pilots urged to avoid body scanning
A pilot who refused to submit to a full-body scan or the alternative pat down going through airport security said the procedures violate his rights.
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Pilot refuses full-body scan, pat down
Two men held in the Netherlands may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked bags, a source said.
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Source: 2 arrested at airport may have been on test run
Serviceman Held in Midland, Tex., After Explosives Found in Luggage
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