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Kimye security bypass delays flight

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NEW YORK - An airline employee at Kennedy Airport is being investigated for allowing Kanye West and Kim Kardashian to bypass a mandatory security screening before they boarded a flight to Los Angeles Tuesday morning...
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NFL, Andre Smith of the Cincinnati Bengals poses for his NFL headshot circa 2011 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by NFL via Getty Images)

Bengals lineman arrested with gun at airport

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ATLANTA (AP) - Cincinnati Bengals tackle Andre Smith was free on bond Friday after his arrest on a charge of carrying a loaded gun at Atlanta's airport...
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Headed to a convention in California, students from Barbizon Modeling School in Atlanta, including (front left to right) Luisa Restrepo, Brian Welch and Jeremiah Davison, relax in the baggage claim area of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after a snow storm on January 10, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed and Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency because of snowfall and ice across Atlanta and Georgia. A winter storm stretched across the Southeast as freezing rain and sleet followed on the heels of a heavy snow that blanketed the region. The students from Barbizon had all their possible flights cancelled to Los Angeles and had been at the airport for the last 24 hours waiting for a flight. Airtran & Delta cancelled all flights out of Atlanta due to icy and snowy weather conditions. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Battery-powered toothbrush prompts airport scare

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ATLANTA (AP) - The tick-tick-ticking sound of a bag alarmed employees at the world's busiest airport, but it turned out to be nothing more than a passenger's battery-powered toothbrush...
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Solange Knowles attends amfAR Milano 2012 during Milan Fashion Week at La Permanente on September 22, 2012 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

Solange's Afro gets a TSA pat down

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theGRIO REPORT - Solange Knowles takes to Twitter after TSA patted her afro down in a Miami airport Wednesday...
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In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2006 file photo, a Massachusetts state trooper keeps watch over travelers making their way through Logan International Airport in Boston. Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston's Logan International Airport are alleging that a program intended to help flag possible terrorists based on passengers' mannerisms has led to rampant racial profiling, the New York Times reported Saturday, Aug. 11,2012.(AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Racial profiling allegedly 'rampant' at Boston airport

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NEW YORK (AP) - Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston's Logan International Airport are alleging that a program intended to help flag possible terrorists based on passengers' mannerisms has led to rampant racial profiling...
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App created to report airport racial profiling

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Civil rights groups are developing an idea for an app that would allow people to report in 'real time' when they are being racially profiled during airport searches...
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Travis Porter member faces airport gun charge

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ATLANTA (AP) - Police say a member of the rap group Travis Porter was arrested when he tried to go through a security checkpoint at the Atlanta airport with a loaded gun...
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Jay-Z's 40/40 Club at Atlanta airport denied

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Jay-Z's bid to put a 40/40 Club in the Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport has been denied...
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Rapper brings weed to airport, TSA: 'C'mon son'

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theGRIO REPORT - Freddie Gibbs was tried to create a new version of the 'Mile High Club.' However, the TSA had one simple response for the Gary, Indiana rapper: 'C'mon Son.'
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Obama soothes bawling baby at San Francisco airport

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President Obama spent only a few hours in San Francisco on Tuesday, but he took just seconds to prove once again why he's the baby whisperer...
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