HOUSTON — If the Trump administration gets its way, U.S. citizens boarding international flights will have to submit to a face scan, a plan privacy advocates call a step toward a surveillance state. The Department of Homeland Security says it’s ...

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Travelers to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport now have the option of using a mobile application to get through customs faster. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release Friday that the airport will become the 18th one ...

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A Baltimore customs lawyer who teaches Sunday religious classes has been awarded The Jewish Women’s Archive’s first Natalia Twersky Educator Award for developing a lesson that compared women from America’s labor movement to women from the Jewish story of Purim. ...

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LINTHICUM — Anyone hoping to catch a flight to Cuba next month from Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport will have to wait until fall. Weekly flights were to begin on March 21, days before Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit the ...

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LINTHICUM — A travel agency and BWI airport say weekly charter flights between Maryland and Cuba will begin next year. Island Travel & Tours Ltd., along with its partner, Sky King Inc. will offer weekly charter service beginning March 21. ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport has been cleared to offer passenger air service to Cuba, the airport said Tuesday. The federal approval comes as part of the president’s effort to ease restrictions on travel to the communist island ...

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Federal agents have found more than two pounds of cocaine and heroin in a locker aboard the cruise ship Enchantment of the Seas in Baltimore. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a drug-sniffing dog found two packages of heroin and ...

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