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California shooting shows security vulnerabilities on buses

By MICHAEL TARM and STEFANIE DAZIO | February 4, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Would-be plotters bent on staging an attack aboard a passenger plane know they've first got to pass through a gauntlet of security measures at an airport, from body scans and spot interrogations to pat-downs and even close scrutiny...

Body scanners threaten our freedoms as citizens

By Letter Writer | November 30, 2010

It's very simple. You can either have safety, or you can have freedom. By their very nature, these two principles stand at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. They foil one another just like water and oil, but as it sadly turns out, freedom is...