Heathrow passengers suffer as security tightens

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Secure Flight of questionable effectiveness

Turbulent skies: The GAO issues a report questioning the effectiveness of Secure Flight — at the same time that the airline industry wants TSA to scrap the Registered Travel program

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Stanford student sues TSA over no-fly list

Malaysian graduate student sues DHS for having been placed on no-fly lists, and denied re-entry into U.S. to complete studies

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Las Vegas airport exploits smaller EDSs to free up space for passenger screening nodes

To facilitate surge in traffic, Las Vegas airport devotes less space to EDS —now possible because of smaller size of machines

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Mega-mall in Sydney airport is a terrorism risk, report

New mega-mall planned for Sydney’s bustling airport was supposed to bring in tourists and commerce, but report says it is more likely to attract terrorists

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Airlines oppose administration's plan to hike airline security fee

For three years now the administration has tried and failed to raise the airport security fee; the airlines object as ferociously as ever, but this time the administration may succeed

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U.S. increases use of UAVs in hunting down terrorists

UAVs prove more versatile and more effective: they will soon be used in border patrol, while abroad they are used more and more often in hunting down terrorists, with lethal effect

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