For years, travelers have been forced to awkwardly remove their shoes in the airport security line, a policy that dates back to a failed, decades-old terrorism plot. The rule just changed with a big ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a major shift to airport security protocol, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has ended the long-standing requirement for most passengers to remove their shoes at ...

Kristi Noem announced on July 8 shoes are no longer required to be removed at airport security. No longer requiring shoe removal went into effect immediately. TSA began requiring travelers to remove ...

After nearly two decades of shuffling barefoot through airport security lines, American travelers can finally leave their shoes on. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week ended one of the ...

People enter a Transportation Security Administration security checkpoint at Philadelphia International Airport on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Ending the shoe removal policy signals that the TSA is willing ...

NEW ORLEANS — It's a shift in security screening before boarding a plane. Now, you no longer have to put your shoes in a separate tray to go through the TSA scanner at U.S. airports. So, we decided to ...