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Lawsuit argued the scans are a violation of the Fourth Amendment's clause on unreasonable searches and seizures.

The Department of Homeland Security said statistics on airport security were improperly disclosed by a House committee.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

The manager of the Chicago Cubs baseball team was detained by the Transportation Security Administration after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Phoenix, Ariz., this week.

An Amtrak train caught on fire at Washington's Union Station.

The agency is testing a program to allow passengers to bring golf clubs on board trains near Midwest courses.

Another jet clipped the tail of a regional plane at Boston's Logan Airport.

Transportation Security Administration will unveil a pilot version of a trusted traveler program to improve wait times at airport security. 

The man who was Defense secretary in the wake of the 9/11 attacks received a pat-down at a Chicago airport.

The Transportation Security Administration caught a passenger trying to board an airplane with 13 knives in his carry-on luggage, the agency confirmed Wednesday.

TSA spokesman Kawika Riley told The Hill Wednesday afternoon that TSA officers at the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore/Washington International Airport discovered the weapons after the passenger's bag was scanned by an X-Ray machine.

The bag was then searched by hand, which led to the discovery of the knives. The passenger was arrested and the incident did not cause any flight delays.

Lawmakers took the TSA to task for some 25,000 airport perimeter breaches since 2001.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) told the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that he will use another panel to get information from the agency he has harshly clashed with.

Mica, who helped write the legislation that created the TSA, has repeatedly accused the agency of stonewalling his committee, most recently when he tried to investigate delays in the creation of a biometric pilot license Congress ordered the TSA to create.

TSA has argued that it is not under the jurisdiction of Mica's committee, but the Florida representative said Wednesday morning that he would work through another panel to press the agency for information.

"If you refuse to cooperate with my committee ... I have had and will continue to have the cooperation of this subcommittee, on which I serve, and the full committee," Mica said at the start of a meeting of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "And we will get the data, whether it's this or other activities which you've refused to give us information on.

Your morning transportation speed-read:

A throwing star was found in a woman's luggage at southern California's Ontario International Airport.

The Heritage Foundation doesn't like the idea of the Transportation Security Administration having a union.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is going to Orlando, Fla. for the groundbreaking of a commuter rail there.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has signed a law making texting-while-driving a primary offense.

TSA defended its procedures after a Republican lawmaker circulated a critical report.