Congressman harassed at US airports
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WASHINGTON: The post 9/11 homeland security system suffered another public embarrassment at the weekend with the disclosure by a congressman that he had suffered lengthy delays at airline ticket counters and that he had been subjected to intense
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The brother of a pilot hijacked during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks launched his general election campaign for Congress Wednesday with a sharp attack on his opponent, the widow of one-time presidential candidate Paul Tsongas.
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OFFICIALS from the United States department of homeland security said yesterday that the former pop star Cat Stevens was escorted off a transatlantic flight and denied entry to the US because of fears that he ...
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Steve Cohen, a white congressman representing a mostly black district, is no stranger to political attacks tinged with race. A new political flier circulating in the district is forcing him to confront anti-Semitism, too.
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A Republican senator pleaded guilty earlier this month to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge stemming from his arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to state criminal records.
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His flight to the Washington area yesterday was diverted to Bangor, Maine, where sources say he was questioned by the FBI and Immigration officials.
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A Republican senator confirmed on  Monday that he pleaded guilty earlier this month to a charge of  disorderly conduct after he was arrested at a Minnesota  airport.
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House Republicans called Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plane request a waste of the taxpayers' money, some said, claiming her trips would cost $15 million a year
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A U.S. congressman chased and caught a man who picked the lawmaker&#39;s pocket on Thursday night in Washington&#39;s tony Georgetown neighbourhood, a local television station reported.
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United Airlines and the Department of Homeland Security blamed each other Wednesday because a passenger, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens, was allowed on a
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WASHINGTON - A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam - formerly known as singer Cat Stevens - was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said.    United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration...
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US Sen. Edward M. &quot;Ted&quot; Kennedy said yesterday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on the government&#39;s secret &quot;no-fly&quot; list.
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Hand sanitizer makes it through security in one airport, then it's confiscated at another. Screening lines back up because only two of six lanes are open. And then there's the occasional all-too-intimate patdown. Those complaints and other frustrations make the nation's airport security agency about as popular as the IRS.
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A legislative leader was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to have a businessman at the center of a federal racketeering probe arrange to threaten someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly  known as Cat Stevens, blasted the United States' system of  screening airline passengers for potential terrorists as  "indiscriminate" and "unjust" in an editorial in Tuesday's  (Sept. 28) Los Angeles Times.
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Don Young, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has become the latest member of Congress to reveal he was mistaken for a suspected terrorist at an airline ticket counter.
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The top Republican in the US House of Representatives said he had been &quot;duped&quot; by disgraced ex-lawmaker Mark Foley, whose sexual solicitations of teenage aides in Congress he decried as &quot;vile,&quot; and &quot;repugnant.&quot;