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TSA changes shoe policy at checkpoints TSA officially ends policy requiring passengers to take off their shoes 03:41 A Florida woman was caught hiding two turtles in her bra while passing through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at the Miami International Airport, the TSA said Thursday. The woman, who was not identified, had the turtles wrapped in what appeared to be gauze and plastic wrap, according to photos posted on social media by the agency. The TSA did not identify the breed of turtles. One turtle died, the agency said. The surviving reptile was turned over to the Florida Department of…

The real Man of Steel wasn’t woke, but he was radical. Ad Policy A four-panel comic from Action Comics 8, 1939. Superman destroys slum housing to force the government to build public housing for the poor.(Courtesy of Screenrant) The American right has launched another of its characteristically soul-crushing and stupefying culture wars, this time targeting Superman. James Gunn, the director of the latest iteration of the franchise, simply titled Superman, provided the casus belli by innocently telling The Times of London, “Superman is the story of America. An immigrant that came from other places and populated the country. But for…

The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend, and you won’t have to check your mailbox for the invite. The agency’s semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, two and a half centuries since its founding. Two newly announced commemorative stamps will also mark the occasion.USPS was founded as the U.S. Post Office Department on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress. In 1970, Congress reorganized USPOD from a cabinet-level department into an independent agency — the modern USPS. Historians see the establishment of…

George Santos, the disgraced former congressman from New York, surrendered himself to a federal prison on Friday to start serving his more than seven-year sentence for fraud. Santos reported to the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey. The ex-Republican congressman from Long Island was sentenced in April to 87 months in prison and he was ordered to report by 2 p.m. on July 25. He was also ordered to pay $373,949.97 in fines and restitution.The Federal Bureau of Prisons did not disclose where Santos would serve his sentence before it started. The bureau says locations are determined…

The Constitution grants Congress the power of the purse, but President Trump is pushing the boundaries of how far the executive branch can go to control federal spending. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Article I of the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse. Lawmakers are supposed to decide how the government collects and spends money. But President Trump has spent the last six months pushing the boundaries of that power, as some of his top officials look to exert more control over federal spending.NPR senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith and congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh are following the push and…

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Ad Policy In the Summer of 1977, I was a young illustrator, living in the East Village in NY. I would get around town a great deal and wherever I went, working, dating, going to films, dinner, it’s all you heard people talking about: the crazy guy who was shooting people parked in their cars. Strangers in coffee shops would see the Daily News on a table and talk. Jimmy Breslin. There was also an awful blackout. And the Yankees were on their way to the World Series, with TV coverage of the games showing shots of the Bronx burning…

A 14-year-old is dead and another person is injured after an early morning shooting at a dormitory complex at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, authorities said Friday. The suspect, an 18-year-old, has been taken into custody, New Mexico State Police Chief Troy Weisler said during a news conference Friday night. An investigation is ongoing, and authorities said charges are forthcoming. The incident took place at the school’s Casas del Rio (Gila) student housing center, UNM President Garnett S. Stokes said in a statement. The injured victim is currently hospitalized.Four people were playing video games in a dorm room when, “for…

Nearly 4,000 employees, or more than 20% of NASA’s workforce, have applied to leave the agency, NASA confirmed to CBS News Friday.About 3,870 employees have applied to depart NASA over two rounds through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program, NASA disclosed.The deadline for applications to the program is midnight Friday.With those deferred resignations, NASA’s civil servant workforce would shrink from about 18,000 to 14,000 personnel. This figure also includes about 500 employees who were lost through normal attrition, the agency said.”Safety remains a top priority for our agency as we balance the need to become a more streamlined and more…

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about his office’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial transactions — and why he is urging the U.S. attorney general to act further. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Even six years after his death, there are many threads to follow in the story of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The Justice Department interviewed his former girlfriend and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in prison for a second day today, and President Trump tried again to change the subject.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: They talk about me. I have nothing to do with the guy.SHAPIRO: Another…