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Hundreds of TSA workers being diverted from airports to southern border
Under direction from the White House, the Transportation Security Administration plans to divert more than 600 workers from airport security to enforce immigration policies along the southern border.

Has the love affair with driving gotten stuck in traffic?
America's love affair with the automobile and those dreams of roaring off on open highways are on the wane as the nation grapples with too much stop-and-go traffic and too...

Why are tens of thousands of Americans still driving around with explosive devices in their cars?
The 62,307 people still driving with defective air bags, many in older-model cars that may have changed hands several times, either have ignored the recall warnings or never received them,...

“She has nerves of steel”: The story of the pilot who calmly landed the Southwest Airlines flight
The pilot's voice was calm yet focused as her plane descended, telling air traffic control she had "149 souls" on board and was carrying 21,000 pounds - or about five...

As President Trump puts longtime personal pilot on shortlist to head FAA, agency faces biggest challenges in decades
In a documentary shot a few years before Donald Trump ran for president, his personal pilot, John Dunkin, is shown buffing a 24-karat-gold-plated seat-belt buckle on Trump's Boeing 757, an...

The flu can kill tens of millions of people. In 1918, that’s exactly what it did.
The flu arrived as a great war raged in Europe, a conflict that would leave about 20 million people dead over four years.

White House revisits gas-tax increase with Trump’s infrastructure plan in mind
The White House is revisiting an increase in the federal gas tax to pay for infrastructure improvements President Donald Trump promised to deliver on the campaign trail. That news was...

Are those 80,000 pound trucks tailgating each other? Soon it may be perfectly normal — and safe
If you look to the next lane and see two 18-wheelers roar past at 70 mph with just 10 yards between them, you'll probably think they are dangerously close.

Cycling fatalities are going up by about 55 deaths per year, according to latest report
Other than riding a bicycle, they seemed to have very little in common beside the fact that they died on the same weekend this month and that their deaths got...