Travelers across the country have endured lengthy lines, some snaking up and down escalators, or through food courts, and into terminal lobbies. At some airports, lines during peak hours have topped 90 minutes. Airlines have reported holding planes at gates to wait for passengers to clear security.
This will cut down on the amount of carry-on luggage fliers haul on planes and speed up inspections at the notoriously slow #Transportation Security Administration checkpoints, U.S. Senators Edward Markey and Richard Blumenthal wrote in a letter to a dozen major U.S. airlines.
New Yorkers can blame themselves for unbearably long lines at area airports, the Transportation Security Administration said in response to criticism from the Port Authority.
A bag-screening issue that caused more than 3,000 checked bags to miss their outbound flights has been fixed, Transportation Security Administration officials said Friday.
“A school may not require #transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so,” the letter says, according to The New York Times, which obtained a copy.
Peruvian activist and actor Richard Torres contracted matrimony with Mexico’s famous 1,000-year-old Arbol del Tule, or Tule Tree, in an Inca ceremony replete with incense, grains and conch shells.
This is the sex house of an #ecosexual, a person who makes the land their lover, bringing a whole new meaning to “environmentally friendly” and “whore-ticulture”.
The bad news is that the help won’t kick in until after the $6,850 deductible is exhausted. The bottom line: The new mother pays $7,010 out of the $7,540 in costs.
The White House aide responsible for fabricating the narrative on the #Iran deal also had a hand in spinning the events following the attack on a U.S. consulate in #Benghazi, an email reveals.
Asthmatic smokers who switch to #vaping could enjoy significant recovery in their lung and respiratory function, according to a new study published in Discovery Medicine.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus cautioned supporters of Donald Trump who vocally disapprove of the GOP’s delegate allocation and selection process.
Merle Haggard, the grizzled country music legend whose songs, such as “Okie from Muskogee” and “Fightin’ Side of Me,” made him a voice for the workingman and the outsider, has died. He was 79.
Last Thursday afternoon a number of anonymous chalk messages appeared on campus. But because these chalk messages read “#Stop Islam” and “Trump 2016,” these innocuous messages elicited 911 calls and apology from the president of the university. Apparently such statements constitute “hate speech.”
The University of Michigan is conducting a study on male engineering students to determine whether their unconscious biases—microaggressions—are driving women out of the field. The study is funded via the National Science Foundation, which means taxpayers coughed up more than $500,000 for it.
Hilde Kate Lysiak, a 9-year-old from Selinsgrove, PA, is the writer, editor, and publisher of the Orange Street News, a paper covering events in her hometown of just over 5,000.
On Monday, it was revealed that the TSA had paid $1.4 million for an app that points an arrow either to the left or to the right. Chris Pacia, a programmer, posted a video on YouTube showing how it’s possible to code an identical app in 10 minutes for about $10 worth of labor.
Requests involving more than 500 such devices streamed into the bureau’s Computer Analysis Response Team and the agency’s Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory programs during a four-month period beginning last October, two months before agents seized Farook’s device in the aftermath of the mass shooting that left 14 dead, according to the FBI.
GapKids has apologized profusely and vowed to change an advertisement for its Ellen DeGeneres-branded kids clothing line after a small but vocal group of critics stormed social media to condemn an image showing a tall white girl resting her arm atop a shorter black girl’s head.
Other people are speaking out in defense of the ad photo. It turns out the two girls in the photo are sisters — daughters of actress Brooke Smith — and that Gap previously published a non-controversial ad with the same pose — except with the races reversed.
A four-year-old student was kicked out of a Colorado preschool after her parents questioned the administration’s controversial curriculum that openly promotes homosexual behavior and transgenderism in the classroom.
If you’ve ever tried to navigate the red tape of airline complaints (say, tried to get reimbursement for lost luggage) then you know how excruciating and hopeless that process can be. But what if you could hire someone else to fight your good fight… for free? That’s the promise behind Service, a new app that deals with — you guessed it! — your customer service battles.
Former Rep. Todd Courser was forced to resign and former Rep. Cindy Gamrat was expelled unconstitutionally, according to a notice of intent the duo’s attorneys filed with the Court of Claims last month.
For $40 an hour (plus expenses), she will be a mom without the judgment, collar straightening, or nagging a real mom might engage in. But she will offer to do any number of mom-like things, such as cooking, sewing on a button, or just listening as a client works through an issue.
In the wake of the Russian Metrojet crash and the Paris terror attacks, security while flying in the U.S. is of greater concern than ever. Yet in Atlanta, a man said he accidentally carried a loaded gun onto a commercial flight and the TSA never found it.
“If someone has never made a ripple in the pond in Syria in a way that would get their identity or their interest reflected in our database, we can query our database until the cows come home, but there will be nothing showing up because we have no record of them,” Comey told the House Committee on Homeland Security on Oct. 21.
Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees, according to FBI agents investigating the remnants of roadside bombs recovered from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The incidents detailed here are among dozens of alleged disrupted by police and federal agents since ISIS began to rise from the flames of the Syrian civil war. The earliest arrest was 18 months ago.
Posing with two fingers up to the camera, this is Europe’s first female suicide bomber whose head flew through a window and landed on the street when she blew herself up during the Saint-Denis siege.
Simply adding Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to a holiday celebration does not make the performance constitutional if it still includes a live Nativity scene, the Freedom From Religion Foundation argues in the latest salvo in the ongoing legal battle over Concord High School’s annual Christmas Spectacular.
Simply adding Hanukkah and Kwanzaa to a holiday celebration does not make the performance constitutional if it still includes a live Nativity scene, the Freedom From Religion Foundation argues in the latest salvo in the ongoing legal battle over Concord High School’s annual Christmas Spectacular.
What once appeared to be the killing of an officer in the line of duty turned out to be “a carefully staged suicide,” George Filenko, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force commander, said Wednesday.
When a police detective thinks he is dying and learns that his life insurance pays out more if he dies in the line of duty, he tries to make that happen.
Sacramento Police Chief Sam Somers said officers secured a warrant Tuesday and on Wednesday morning arrestedJames Tran, 28, during a traffic stop near his home in Elk Grove. The Sacramento County district attorney’s office has decided to file a charge of attempted murder against Tran, who Somers said has a record of past felonies.
Two Niagara Falls, New York, residents will be arraigned in November on charges that they left two children, ages 7 and 9, alone for an hour in August on a public beach, according to Orleans District Court records.
I wrote this post a long time ago on Myspace, and have used it regularly on my show. Every now and then someone requests it. So I figured I’d repost it here.
According to the New York Post, Rambler was heavily criticized for blatantly perpetuating a double standard, and he has not yet commented on the incident.
The student, whose name is being withheld by the Daily News, suffered a cracked, bloody lip and swelling and redness to his face when Hughes yanked off the tape at Intermediate School 292 in East New York, Cotto added.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy‘s stunning decision Thursday to withdraw from the race for speaker leaves Republicans scrambling to find that elusive candidate who can unite the divided conference and actually win a majority on the floor.
An environmental group is challenging the constitutionality of Indiana’s right-to-farm laws on behalf of two rural families who say the stench coming from a large hog farm nearby is making their homes unlivable.
Spencer Stone, one of the three Americans hailed a hero in the French train attack in August, is in stable condition after being stabbed Thursday near a Sacramento bar.
Update: The assault incident is not related to a terrorist act. Assault occurred near a bar, alcohol is believed to be a factor.
Reporter Trace Gallagher said it appears the dad operates two different Facebook pages. On his personal page, he reported, the elder Mohamed wrote about how “killing without rightness” is prohibited by Islam. But there’s also apparently an Arabic Facebook page that also appears to be run by Elhassan Mohamed.
An 8-foot king cobra snake that had been missing for more than a month was found under a dryer in a garage not far from its reality TV star owner’s home near Orlando.
A western Michigan woman is involved in a dispute with the federal Transportation Security Administration over a $2,000 fine for attempting to carry apple butter onto a flight.
Senate Democrats are preparing a legislative push to curb guns, a week after a mass shooting at an Oregon community college refocused attention on the nation’s toll of firearms deaths.
If you work at Urban Outfitters, your bosses want you to work for free. To keep up with the increased seasonal demand, the parent company of Urban Outfitters, URBN, which also owns Free People and Anthropologie, sent an employee-only email calling for volunteers.
