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![House Bill Would Provide Major Pay Increase for TSA Screeners](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/tsa.jpeg)
House Bill Would Provide Major Pay Increase for TSA Screeners
By Steve Neavling TSA screeners could receive an average 30% pay increase, along with benefits and due process protections that most other federal employees receive, under a bill passed by the U.S. House last week. Since the creation of the TSA after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, TSA employees “have been part of a…
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Border Patrol Agent Killed in Car Crash Identified
The Border Patrol agent who was killed in a solo car crash in a rural area of California near the U.S.-Mexico border has been identified.
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Mass Shooting in Buffalo Was ‘Racially Motivated Violent Extremism,’ Wray Says
The mass shooting that killed 10 Black people in a Buffalo grocery store was “an act of racially motivated violent extremism,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said Monday.
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Buffalo Shooter Says He Altered Assault Weapon to Hold More Bullets
By Allan Lengel The 18-year-old shooter at the Buffalo supermarket massacre on Saturday bought his XM-15 semiautomatic from a licensed dealer near his hometown and said he illegally modified it to hold more bullets, the Washington Post reports. Payton S. Gendron, in online postings weeks before the shooting, said he bought the Bushmaster in January…
![Randy Weaver, Key Figure in Ruby Ridge Standoff, Dies](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/randall-weaver-mugshot-float-ht-jt-170815_16x9_992.jpg)
Randy Weaver, Key Figure in Ruby Ridge Standoff, Dies
Randy Weaver, whose refusal to leave his remote Idaho cabin led to the 11-day Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992, has died, The New York Times reports.
![On-Duty Border Patrol Agent Killed in Solo, Rollover Car Crash](https://ticklethewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/27520553668_2235832946_z.jpg)
On-Duty Border Patrol Agent Killed in Solo, Rollover Car Crash
A Border Patrol agent was killed in a solo car crash in a rural area of California near the U.S.-Mexico border Friday morning.
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DOJ Opens Grand Jury Investigation into Trump’s Handling of Classified Material
The Justice Department has launched a grand jury investigation into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents after authorities discovered he brought boxes of White House documents to his Florida home.
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FBI Agent Accused of Assaulting Traffic Agent for Issuing Parking Ticket in Queens
By Steve Neavling An FBI agent was arrested Wednesday for allegedly attacking and handcuffing a New York City traffic agent who wrote him a ticket in Queens. Kenneth Diu, 46, was on a stakeout when he received the ticket on April 19, police sources told The New York Daily News. Diu was issued a desk…