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Canines trained to detect explosives on people in high-risk airports are instead being used to screen cargo, in some cases, the GAO reports. 

The Coast Guard will unveil a proposal for TWIC card reader requirements in February, which should hopefully initiate the full implementation of those readers. 

Security guards at John F. Kennedy Airport are threatening to walk off the job this month.

The Secret Service is the target of an investigation involving the loss of two backup computer tapes left on a Washington, D.C., Metro train.

Polly Hanson, the former Metro Transit Police chief, will take over Amtrak’s police force next month.

After a loss of TSA funding, the $44-per-hour police service proved too expensive for the airport.

The threat of terrorists transporting improvised explosives on North America's major waterways has Canadians concerned, but an American report finds the risk "limited."

Thieves stole 3,600 new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from a cargo building at JFK airport.

Thefts on the CTA increased 16 percent in the first nine months of the year compared with the same period in 2011.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has hired its first chief security officer.