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  1. Passports often hold clues to terrorism

    When a Saudi Arabian airline passenger arrived at Detroit Metropolitan Airport weeks ago, red flags went up, landing him in jail.

    • Jun. 8, 2013

  2. Auditor: TSA can't justify costs of screening behavior

    The Transportation Security Administration can't ensure that its behavior-detection program is objective or cost-effective, according to a watchdog report released Wednesday.

    • Jun. 8, 2013

  3. TSA: No small knives on planes

    Flight attendants, law enforcement officers and lawmakers welcomed the Transportation Security Administration decision Wednesday not to allow small knives back in carry-on luggage.

    • Jun. 8, 2013

  4. Saudi traveler with pressure cooker arrested at Detroit airport

    Federal agents arrested a suspicious traveler with an altered Saudi Arabian passport at Detroit Metro Airport over the weekend after discovering a pressure cooker in his luggage.

    • May. 13, 2013

  5. Green of the road: Airlines, hotels, cars more eco-friendly

    When you travel these days, you're doing so in a more environmentally friendly fashion than you did a decade ago — and you probably can't even tell.

    • May. 13, 2013
  6. A TSA agent checks the luggage of a passenger at Orlando International Airport in 2011. STAN HONDA / AFP via Getty Images

    TSA officers, air marshals file legal warning over knives

    Nine groups of airline workers and travelers filed a legal challenge Monday urging the Transportation Security Administration against allowing passengers to carry small knives on planes.

    • May. 13, 2013
  7. Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department's inspector general warned. Above, a Continental Airlines jet rolls out to the runway at Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., in a file photo. Karen Bleier / AFP

    Planes on the same runway more often, watchdog warns

    Airline passenger planes are being reported on the same runway with other planes and vehicles — and sometimes narrowly avoiding collisions — hundreds of times more each year, the Transportation Department’s inspector general warned Thursday.

    • May. 13, 2013
  8. In a listserv email Wednesday, an Office of Personnel Management said few benefit officers from around the federal government would have been able to attend the annual conference due to a lack of funds. Staff

    OPM cancels benefits conference

    Tight budgets have forced the Office of Personnel Management to cancel this year's benefits conference.

    • May. 13, 2013

  9. Budget cuts push conferences online

    Decreasing travel budgets are forcing agencies to conduct more meetings and training seminars online.

    • May. 13, 2013
  10. Jets taxi into take-off position as traffic enters and leaves Los Angles International Airport on April 22. Congress is expected to finalize passage of a bill April 25 that would end air-traffic controller furloughs, which have resulted in a plethora of flight delays across the country. David McNew / Getty Images

    Senate approves plan to end FAA furloughs, tower closings

    Congress is poised to end air-traffic-control furloughs that have delayed thousands of flights this week.

    • Apr. 26, 2013
  11. Increasing delays are being reported as air traffic controllers are furloughed at airports across the country. AFP / Getty Images

    Delays stack up in airports: Start the blame game

    How much frustration will build up in the skies before politicians on the ground in Washington do something about flight delays?

    • Apr. 24, 2013
  12. JFK international airport in New York is among those expected to be hardest hit by delays related to the furloughing of air traffic controllers. JFK International Airport

    Fliers on watch for delays from FAA furloughs

    Air travelers were keeping a close eye on airport departure boards Monday, hoping to get a sense of whether the threat of crushing delays from sequester-related budget cuts is real or just political bluster.

    • Apr. 22, 2013
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