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The Transportation Security Administration will let uniformed airline pilots skip the body scans and pat-downs at airport checkpoints.

In response to a video of a California man's dispute with airport security officials, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday it tries to be sensitive to individuals, but everyone getting on a flight must be screened.

Pilots' unions for US Airways and American Airlines are urging their members to avoid full-body scanning at airport security checkpoints, citing health risks and concerns about intrusiveness and security officer behavior.

Authorities are responding to reports of suspicious items on three planes that landed today in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennyslvania. Suspicious packages found in at least two locations abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the United States "apparently contain explosive material," President Barack Obama said Friday, calling the discovery "a credible threat against our country."

A pilot who refused to submit to a full-body scan or the alternative pat down going through airport security said the procedures violate his rights.

Two men held in the Netherlands may have been trying to test U.S. airport security by putting bottles with electronic devices attached in checked bags, a source said.

Two New Jersey men were arrested at JFK International Airport in an alleged terrorism plot involving an Islamic group in Somalia, NBC News confirmed.

A bomb squad has detonated a piece of suspicious luggage that was smoking at the Seattle-Tacoma airport. Port of Seattle spokeswoman Terri-Ann Betancourt says the luggage contained only a battery charger and electronics.

A scheduled flight from the Taiwanese capital of Taipei to the eastern Chinese city of Shanghai was diverted to a nearby Chinese airport Saturday after a passenger told cabin crew his luggage contained explosives....

The federal government is starting to deploy full-body imaging machines at an additional 11 airports across the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday.