The head of the Transportation Security Administration has backed off a public commitment to conduct a new independent study of X-ray body scanners used at airport security lanes around the country.

Scanners were introduced at airports to combat hijacking in the 1970s - Getty Images The conveyor-belt security scanners at airports are always a source of irritation. You were gliding through, ...

Controversial airport scanners that produce a naked image of travelers will be removed in June, the Transportation Security Administration announced Friday. The company that makes the scanners, ...

Early airport body scanners were far more revealing than most travellers realised. In the early 2010s, Rapiscan X-ray ...

Questions are being raised about the safety of X-ray body scanners at some airports across the country, after an article reporting that they might cause cancer. Questions are being raised about the ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Safety in schools tops this year's checklist, as education leaders across the country evaluate and rework protocols. A new step to strengthen school safety is under the microscope.

It looks as though the backlash against those full-body scanners now in use in airports by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has officially begun. On Saturday morning, Oceanside, ...

The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly removing its X-ray body scanners from major airports over the last few weeks and replacing them with machines that radiation experts believe ...