PHL closes additional security checkpoints as partial shutdown drags on
Additional security checkpoints at PHL are closed as a partial government shutdown affecting TSA drags on.
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Additional security checkpoints at PHL are closed as a partial government shutdown affecting TSA drags on.
TSA workers are impacted by the government shutdown and the agency is dealing with staffing constraints, including at PHL.
Philadelphia International Airport says the TSA has temporarily closed one security checkpoint to help shift staffing to other checkpoints. The partial government shutdown has put a strain on staffing and Friday will be first time TSA workers go without a full paycheck. Josh Sanders has the latest from the Pulse Desk.
The Department of Homeland Security officially shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday after Congress failed to pass a bill to fund its operations before a stopgap measure lapsed.
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President Trump signed a government funding package at the White House late Wednesday, formally ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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The FAA has cut flights as air traffic controllers continue to work without pay at PHL and around the country.
Disruption continued Tuesday at Philadelphia International Airport as airlines canceled flights to comply with an FAA order and federal employees, including air traffic controllers, continued to work without pay.
Eight Democratic Senators, including Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, joined their Republican colleagues in voting to pass a funding package that would end the government shutdown. The legislation now heads to the House for approval.
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Felonies against one of the five teenagers arrested during an ICE protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, have been dismissed.
Rashiem Russell was arrested at a home in Darlington, South Carolina, Friday morning, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill accused ICE of ignoring the concerns of Roxbury residents after it bought the vacant warehouse on Route 46.
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Rashiem Russell was arrested at a home in Darlington, South Carolina, Friday morning, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Felonies against one of the five teenagers arrested during an ICE protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, have been dismissed.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill accused ICE of ignoring the concerns of Roxbury residents after it bought the vacant warehouse on Route 46.
Chrissy Palladino may have retired from Camden Catholic High School, but her handprints remain on the girls' basketball program.
Felonies against one of the five teenagers arrested during an ICE protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, have been dismissed.
Rashiem Russell was arrested at a home in Darlington, South Carolina, Friday morning, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
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Gov. Mikie Sherrill accused ICE of ignoring the concerns of Roxbury residents after it bought the vacant warehouse on Route 46.
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Additional security checkpoints at PHL are closed as a partial government shutdown affecting TSA drags on.
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The most serious charges against one of the five teenagers arrested during an ICE protest last month have been dismissed. The five teenagers were back in court on Friday.
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