TSA has quietly ended one of its most well-known safety policies that has been in place at airports across the country for nearly two decades.

Travelers racing to catch a flight at U.S. airports no longer are required to remove their shoes during security screenings, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Tuesday. Noem said the end of ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday announced that all passengers going through airport security around the country will no longer have to take off their shoes.

For the first time since 2006, passengers at U.S. airports are allowed to keep their shoes on at security. “I like that rule,” said Mark Galimberti, who was flying from Pittsburgh to Seattle.

A 20-year rule requiring airline passengers to take off their shoes before going through TSA security checks has been removed ...

Noem said new screening technology is allowing them to get rid of the shoe removal policy that was introduced in 2006 over bombing concerns. The TSA will now use “multiple layers of screening,” ...

Taking off your shoes and placing them in a bin has been the norm for flyers for nearly 20 years, but it won't be much longer.

TSA first implemented the no-shoes policy in 2006 after a passenger tried and failed to ignite a homemade shoe explosive on ...

Travelers in the US no longer need to remove shoes at airport security, thanks to advances in screening and ID procedures, says Homeland Security.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the change on Tuesday, saying it will enhance the travel experience while ...

It has evolved. TSA has changed," Noem said. "We have a multi-layered, a whole of government approach now to security and to the environment that people anticipate and experience when they come into ...