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When she was arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport last November, prosecutors said 23-year-old Yaazmina Payton had attempted to stow away on an American Airlines flight so that she could go see rapper Jay-Z in Los Angeles.

A family stuck in “the wrong Portland” got to the right place after a Transportation Security Administration officer’s kind gesture, and now he’s being recognized for helping them out. Last November, Martin Rios, who is part of the TSA team at Portland International Airport in Oregon, was able to help a family who was having a hard time communicating...

A TSA agent is being recognized for helping a family who had a case of mistaken identity: they were in the wrong Portland.

The Transportation Security Administration says more than 6,000 federal employees have contracted the coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, TSA workers in New Hampshire want to be bumped up in the state’s vaccine rollout plan. But Gov. Chris Sununu is showing no signs of changing the timeline. We spoke with a longtime local TSA worker calling on the…

TSA workers are asking New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu to move them up in the state’s coronavirus vaccine rollout.

A former Transportation Security Administration agent who was accused of tricking a traveler into showing her breasts as she went through security at Los Angeles International Airport pleaded no contest Friday to false imprisonment, authorities said.

Federal safety officials are investigating people who took part in last week’s riot at the U.S. Capitol to decide whether they belong on the federal no-fly list

Despite pleas from health officials, millions of people across the country traveled to see family and friends for the holidays, marking the highest number of travelers since the start of the pandemic at Boston Logan International Airport. Nearly 1.2 million people — the highest number since March — flew two days before Christmas, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)…

A lot of people decided to travel for Christmas, leaving health officials to brace for a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Nearly 1.3 million people went through U.S. airports on Sunday, the highest level of air travel in more than nine months

The amount of people that traveled through airports over the holiday is causing concerns that there could be yet another COVID-19 surge.

The TSA has screened nearly five million travelers at the nation’s airports, numbers not seen since the pandemic started stateside. Experts from the CDC said the phenomenon was “pouring gasoline on the fire,” as infections and deaths continue to rise.

How much money would you guess the nation’s airline passengers walked away from after going through airport screening last year? It’s money they took out of their pockets and left in a bin but forgot to pick up.

American Airlines said Thursday it plans to suspend service to 15 small U.S. cities with low demand in October after the terms of federal aid requiring the flights expires, a move that would cut off scheduled flights to nine destinations in as many states.

The TSA has new security rules to help keep people healthy while traveling.

Air travel started picking up across the U.S. before Memorial Day, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain flew cross-country and has tips for what to expect.

The Transportation Security Administration announced a series of new rules for summer travelers to help limit the spread of the coronavirus.

Five hundred people who work for the Transportation Security Administration have tested positive for COVID-19, including four people who died from the disease, the agency said Wednesday. Of the 500 who tested positive, 208 TSA employees recovered from the illness, the agency said in a statement. Almost 40 percent of positive cases were found in employees working in the three major…