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Newark Airport Incident Reveals Obvious Security Flaw

While we debate the merits of intrusive screening methods, some guy at Newark International Airport foiled TSA with the ingenious plot of walking the wrong way through the exit of a terminal checkpoint. The terminal is on lock-down. According to CNN Police are seeking the individual, who walked from the public side to the sterile side, said TSA spokeswoman Anne Davis

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Newark Airport Incident Reveals Obvious Security Flaw

We Will Never Stop Idiots From Wrong-Waying Airport Security

How best to protect America from the newly urgent threat of terrorists going the wrong way through airport security ?

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We Will Never Stop Idiots From Wrong-Waying Airport Security

Kathy Griffin’s NYE F-Bomb

Kathy Griffin saying inappropriate things on CNN is now officially a New Years' tradition. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Checkbook Journalism: A User’s Guide

The Society of Professional Journalists is scolding NBC News for buying its “exclusive” interview with David Goldman —the father of that Brazilian kid—by chartering a jet to fly father, son, and NBC reporter back to the U.S. Shocking, indeed

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Checkbook Journalism: A User’s Guide

Sexxy Exploded Underwear Pics Fascinate CNN’s Rick Sanchez

Rick Sanchez is usually a straight-forward, if shouty, news anchor. But tonight while filling in for Campbell Brown, Sanchez could barely contain his excitement over pictures of the Underwear Bomber’s blasted briefs, obtained just minutes before by CNN

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Another Nigerian detained on a flight.

A separate incident on a second Detroit flight has lead to the arrest of another Nigerian man, now in custody.

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Another Nigerian detained on a flight.

NWA Flight 253: Winners, Losers, Heroes, and The Schadenfreude of Burning Balls

Some guy tried to light an explosive devise, ended up producing a mediocre fireworks show inside of an airplane. So, he failed, ended up with burned balls. Now we have heroes and tighter air travel regulations.

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NWA Flight 253: Winners, Losers, Heroes, and The Schadenfreude of Burning Balls

Explosive device set off aboard airliner

A passenger on a flight Friday from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, ignited a small explosive device shortly before landing and the White House is considering the incident an attempted terrorist attack, a senior administration official said. The Northwest passenger, identified as a Nigerian national “claiming to have extremist affiliation,” was placed in custody and is being treated for burns suffered in the explosion, according to a federal government bulletin obtained by CNN from a source familiar with the investigation. The explosive device “was acquired in Yemen along with instructions as to when it should be used,” the bulletin said.

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Console families of military suicides, lawmakers urge Obama

Washington (CNN) — President Obama should end a longstanding policy of not writing letters of condolence to families of troops who commit suicide, dozens of lawmakers urged him in a letter Wednesday. The lawmakers warned that “our armed forces are in the midst of a suicide epidemic.” U.S. Army statistics show that more than 200 troops have killed themselves this year, more than in 2008, which was a record year.

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Balloon Boy Hoax Fines at $42K and Climbing

The parents who orchestrated the Balloon Boy hoax were hit with a tab of $42,000 from local, state and federal agencies for their October, national TV stunt.

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Balloon Boy Hoax Fines at $42K and Climbing