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DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is giving NYC $181 million to help buy more surveillance cameras and fireboats and beef up safety in the subway system. 

Fidgeting, whistling, sweaty palms: just a few of the suspicious signs that the TSA directs its officers to look out for. 

More than 1.9 billion mobile boarding passes will be used by 2019, compared to 745 million estimated to be delivered in 2015 alone, Jupiter Research reports.

Airport screening procedures to stop the spread of infectious diseases miss half to three-quarters of infected travelers who make it to their destinations. 

A man was charged with using a laser pointer that injured three pilots from two different aircraft: two police officers flying in a helicopter and the co-pilot of a commercial Air Canada flight that was leaving LaGuardia Airport.

 Illinois is working on a plan to bring state driver's licenses up to federal security standards. 

The Transportation Security Administration is considering implementing additional security measures for airport and airline employees, including enhanced airline-employee screenings, random security checks and additional TSA and law enforcement patrols in secure areas, said federal officials in a statement Thursday.

The Senate passed a bill that limits airline security fees.

Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson left open the possibility that the Transportation Safety Administration could ban carry-on luggage on airplanes.

Reggie Harrison, deputy city manager and acting director of the Long Beach Airport, was named director of disaster preparedness and emergency communications.