It was post-9/11 security theater — the performative illusion that mass ritualized inconvenience will make us safer.

Passengers at airports in Connecticut and the rest of New England are no longer required to remove their shoes during ...

Would Americans be padding across the gross airport floors forever, just because of Richard Reid? Better technology should ...

The shoe removal process was implemented in 2006 "in response to an attempt by an airline passenger to conceal a bomb in his ...

Reid pleaded guilty to eight terrorism-related charges in 2002, according to the FBI, and was sentenced to life in federal ...

There's some good news for travelers going through TSA screening areas at Jacksonville International Airport: your shoes can ...

Travelers at Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport can now keep their shoes on while passing through ...

For nearly 20 years, millions of bare feet have marched through security checkpoints at airports around the country, a motley ...

After almost 20 years, the Transportation Safety Administration says modern technology has made its 'Shoes-Off' policy ...

Travelers are no longer required to remove their shoes during TSA security screenings, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...

Since at least 2011, officials at DHS have promised a shoes-on future, and the department’s own science arm developed and licensed a “high definition–advanced imaging technology shoe scanner.” In ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says U.S. travelers no longer have to take their shoes off while going through ...