The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) intercepted 1,503 firearms at airport security checkpoints during the first quarter of 2024, a number the federal agency said is comparable to last year’s. The total represents an average of 16.5 firearms per day detected at TSA checkpoints during the first three months of the year. During the same time […]
Millions of Americans are hitting the roads and taking to the skies as thunderstorms impact parts of the United States, but early travelers can expect to avoid major disruptions. This holiday season is expected to be the busiest ever for travel with the peak hitting on Tuesday and Wednesday. NTD’s Melina Wisecup is at Reagan […]
Tennessee is aiming to join the growing number of states across the United States that issue digital driver’s licenses (DDLs) to their residents. The bill, SB 572 (pdf), is currently making its way through the Tennessee Senate. Introduced by Democratic state Sen. Heidi Campbell, the legislation directs the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to study […]
The storms in California are responsible for more deaths. At least 16 people have died now from falling trees, mudslides, and other disasters. California’s controversial gun law modeled after Texas’s abortion law is now in effect. It will now let private citizens in the Golden State sue gun manufacturers. Disney is bringing back half marathon […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is ushering in a new policy that makes U.S. airport security screening transgender-friendly. The federal agency is implementing the policy backed by what it calls a new “gender-neutral algorithm.” According to the agency, it has invested $18 million into the new screening system, which it has dubbed Advanced Imaging Technology […]
The White House responds to anti-lockdown protests in China. But it notably refuses to say one thing. Former Fox News executive and author of the new book “The World We Wish” joins us to weigh in on the civil unrest unfolding all across China. The Pentagon warns lawmakers they’re threatening national security—by slow-walking a budget for […]
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has extended its COVID-19 vaccine proof requirement for non-U.S., nonimmigrant citizens flying to enter the United States, making the United States the only western country and among the few remaining countries in the world still to require such proof for entry. The latest TSA security directive (pdf) states that effective to at least […]
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on Oct. 31, leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that allowed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to require the wearing of masks on airplanes, trains, and buses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the TSA abandoned its mask mandate in April, the decision allows a Dec. […]
The head of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) told lawmakers on July 21 that “under 1,000” illegal immigrants were allowed to present civil immigration enforcement documents, like arrest warrants, as valid proof of identification and were able to board commercial U.S. flights this calendar year. TSA Administrator David Pekoske, who was re-nominated by President Joe Biden […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued more than 900 civil penalties and over 2,700 warnings since February 2021 against individuals who failed to comply with federal face mask requirements, the government reported on Monday. In a TSA report (pdf), the U.S. agency said it had proposed $644,398 in fines to 922 people who did not comply with […]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has proposed $644,398 in fines for 922 COVID-19 mask violators since February 2021 on commercial flights, in airports and train stations, or on public transit services, the government reported on Monday, a dramatic jump in recent months. According to the government report, all but 44 of the TSA fines […]
Recently, the British Medical Journal, which is the oldest medical journal in the world, began to demand the immediate release of all COVID vaccine data, including the raw data from the clinical trials—something which has, until this very day, not been made public. Meanwhile, as we common folk have to use our driver’s licenses and our […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has acknowledged it was allowing illegal immigrants to present arrest warrants as identification to get on airplanes, but defended it as a longstanding practice. A TSA spokesperson confirmed to The Epoch Times in an email that illegal immigrants and other non-citizens and non-U.S. nationals “who do not otherwise have acceptable […]
There’s been a bizarre crime spree in California and elsewhere recently of hammer-wielding thieves looting luxury stores in brazen acts of organized robbery. But why? What’s behind it? We try to find out with author and professor Wilfred Reilly. Then, in this week’s America Q&A, we ask: What difference do you think there should be […]
The holidays are here and people are on the move. Air travel is almost back to pre-pandemic levels. Another important milestone is that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), created in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, just turned 20. It’s almost hard to imagine how different the airport experience was pre-TSA. Security used to […]
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has set a new record this year for how many passengers officers have caught trying to board flights with a gun. NTD went to George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas, where the TSA gave a demonstration and explained the proper procedures for flying with firearms.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said Tuesday it will extend a mask mandate for travellers on airplanes, trains and buses, as well as at airports and train stations, in efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. The mandate has now been extended through Jan. 18, 2022. It had previously been extended in April through Sept. […]
