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REAL ID is the card everyone knows they need, but many keep putting off.
A growing number of Americans are bringing guns to the airport, but not all of them are creatively hidden.
Only federal employees who are deemed essential would be allowed to work during a government shutdown.
The TSA expects a potentially record-breaking holiday travel season.
Transportation Security Administration officials observed a flash-bang grenade within a passenger's bag at the main security checkpoint.
TSA officers prevented more guns from making it onto a plane at Pittsburgh International Airport over the weekend.
TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein says there are no shortcuts when it comes to screening travelers and their belongings.
TSA says the changes are designed to help cut down on lengthy wait times at the security checkpoint.
One reason for the record volume might be that flight prices dipped slightly during the holiday weekend.
Bottles of water and firearms are the most frequently stopped items by TSA officials, but now and then agents come across the unexpected.
TSA announced changes are coming to the security checkpoints at Pittsburgh International Airport next month as a record number of people are flying.
An inert grenade and a smoke grenade were found at the checkpoint at Pittsburgh International Airport.
The clock is ticking for people to get a REAL ID.
A Butler County man was found to have a loaded 9mm handgun in his carry-on bag.
New technology at the Pittsburgh International Airport will increase efficiency at checkpoints, the TSA said.
The detections, which averaged 16.5 firearms per day in the first three months of the year, were marginally fewer than last year's first-quarter average of 16.8 firearms per day, the TSA said.
Officials say this is the second time the man has violated the firearms policy.
The man was found to have a loaded 9mm pistol in his carry-on bag.
TSA officers stopped more than 100 handguns at checkpoints throughout Pennsylvania airports in 2023.
"The piece of legislation that we will be introducing in the coming weeks will provide the capacity to revoke the permit to carry licenses of any individual who is caught by TSA."
This latest confiscation brings the total number of guns caught at the airport's checkpoints to 40 so far in 2023, five more than the previous record of 35 firearms in 2019.
The two guns were the fourth and fifth that have been confiscated at the checkpoint in the last eight days.
A woman on Tuesday was the second person in three days to bring a gun to the Pittsburgh International Airport.
The CLEAR program, which boasts over 130 million successfully verified passengers, employs biometric technology to verify passengers' identities.
The Transportation Security Administration said it expects a busy summer travel season this year.
