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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will be conducting a series of recruitment events in January to hire additional men and women to work at Syracuse Hancock International Airport in preparation for the busy spring and summer travel seasons.
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped 39 handguns at New York City area airport checkpoints in 2022, an increase from the 26 guns caught in 2021.
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers in Arkansas detected 59 firearms in travelers’ carry-on luggage in 2022, with the majority of the firearms discovered at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport’s (LIT) security checkpoint.
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped 21 handguns at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport security checkpoints in 2022, a decrease from the 23 guns caught in 2021.
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recognized a year of accomplishments and progress in 2022, setting a new record in firearm interceptions by Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) at checkpoints, making significant strides to improve transportation security and screening an average of more than two million passengers daily at airports across the country.
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers continued to detect guns at Pennsylvania airport security checkpoints last year. TSA officers stopped 82 handguns at Pennsylvania airport security checkpoints in 2022, a decline from the 89 guns detected in 2021, yet a spike from the 71 caught in 2019 (pre-pandemic).
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Philadelphia International Airport have prevented three individuals from bringing handguns onto their flights in the first 12 days of the new year, the third of which was detected yesterday, Thursday, Jan. 12.
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped 85 handguns at Chicago O’Hare International Airport security checkpoints in 2022, and 38 at Chicago Midway International Airport, a decrease for both airports from 2021.
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today that its security screening officers at the two major airports in East Texas Area detected 423 firearms in travelers’ carry-on luggage in 2022. Every one of these firearms was discovered during the routine X-ray screening of carry-on property at the security checkpoint. Nationwide last year, TSA officers found 6,542 firearms at 262 different airports.
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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced today
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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped 23 handguns at Upstate New York airport security checkpoints in 2022, an increase from the 19 caught in 2021.
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An investigation by Homeland Security Investigations resulted in the conviction of four men for their involvement in an online child exploitation network.
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Release: NEWARK, N.J. A Lehigh Valley, Pa., man was arrested by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Newark Liberty International Airport stopped him with a.357 caliber handgun at a security checkpoint in Terminal C on Sunday, Jan. 29. The firearm was not loaded.
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News Release: ATLANTA - Recovery specialists from FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) are now available at the Spalding County Senior Center to assist residents of Spaulding County who were severely impacted by the Jan. 12 storms and tornadoes.
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Release: ALBANY, N.Y. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hiring additional men and women to work at Albany International Airport in preparation for the busy spring and summer travel seasons.
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Release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is hiring officers to work at Syracuse Hancock International, Greater Binghamton and Ithaca Tompkins International Airports and the agency is staffing a series of informational recruitment tables at those three airports in February so that individuals...
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News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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“Border Codel (Executive Calendar)“ was published in the Senate section on pages S48-S49 on Jan. 23
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News Release: ATLANTA - A FEMA disaster recovery center will open Sunday, Jan.29 in Troup County to provide one-on-one assistance to people directly affected by the Jan. 12 severe storms, straight line winds and tornadoes.
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There were four notices published by the Homeland Security Department in week ending Jan. 21, according to the Federal Register.