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News.com.au
34 minutes ago
- News.com.au
US scraps shoe removal at airport screening
Passengers at US airports will no longer have to remove their shoes to pass through security under a new policy unveiled Tuesday, 20 years after the requirement was introduced. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the change to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) rules at a news conference at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. Passengers at US airports have been required to take off shoes during screenings since 2006, five years after the arrest of "Shoe Bomber" Richard Reid, who had explosives hidden in his footwear onboard. "In those 20 years since that policy was put in place, our security technology has changed dramatically. It's evolved. TSA has changed. We have a multi-layered whole of government approach now to security," Noem said. "We are very confident that we can continue to provide hospitality to folks and for American travelers and for those visiting our country, while maintaining the same standard of security for passengers and for our homeland," she added. Reid, a member of Al-Qaeda, was overpowered by other passengers as he tried to light a fuse on his shoes on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001. Reid pleaded guilty to terrorism and other charges and is serving a life sentence at a maximum security prison in Colorado. TSA said in a statement on the shoe policy change that other security measures will remain in place. "Other aspects of TSA's layered security approach will still apply during the TSA checkpoint process. For example, passengers subject must still clear identity verification, Secure Flight vetting, and other processes," it said. Past attacks -- both successful and thwarted -- have led to a raft of new airport security measures in recent decades, especially following the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which hijackers flew passenger jets into the Twin Towers in New York as well as the Pentagon. In 2006, British authorities announced they had foiled a terror plot that aimed to blow up several planes in mid-air simultaneously with liquid explosives. Since then, tough restrictions have applied to liquids and gels, such as toothpaste. And electronics have also come in for additional screening in a bid to head off attacks, with passengers required to remove laptops from bags, for instance. cl-wd/md
Sky News AU
36 minutes ago
- Sky News AU
Trump tells pharmaceutical manufacturers to ‘get their act together' or be tariffed
US President Donald Trump is taking aim at pharmaceutical manufacturers by threatening to impose a massive 200 per cent tariff on one of Australia's largest exports to the United States. The US President has told drug manufacturers they have one year to 'get their act together'. The US has long pressured the Australian government to overhaul its Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme system, although pharmaceuticals accounted for $2 billion worth of exports in 2024. President Trump also announced a 50 per cent tariff on copper, although it is unclear when these levies will come into effect.
The Age
36 minutes ago
- The Age
Trump says big copper tariff coming along with crippling drug levy
President Donald Trump said he plans to implement a 50 per cent duty on US copper imports, while also indicating he could offer pharmaceutical manufacturers at least a year before applying a crippling 200 per cent tariff on their foreign-made products. Trump told reporters during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday in the US he was still planning tariffs on select industries, including drugs, semiconductors, and metals. 'I believe the tariff on copper we're going to make it 50 per cent,' Trump said when asked by a reporter what the rate on those products would be. Copper futures in New York surged as much as 17 per cent after Trump's comments, the largest intraday gain in data going back to at least 1988. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, speaking to CNBC shortly after the Cabinet meeting, said his department's investigation into copper had concluded and that he expected the levy 'likely to be put in place end of July — maybe August 1.' 'Copper is finished. We're done with our study,' Lutnick said. 'We've handed the study over to the president. The president knows that he has the ability, since we've studied the market for copper, to set the market tariff for copper.' Loading Trump said he expected to offer pharmaceutical manufacturers some time to bring their operations to the US before slapping tariffs of as much as 200 per cent on their products. An S&P 500 index of drugmakers turned negative after Trump's comments, while shares of Eli Lilly, Merck and Pfizer pared earlier gains. 'We're going to give people about a year, a year and a half, to come in,' Trump said. 'And after that they're going to be tariffed if they have to bring the pharmaceuticals into the country, the drugs and other things, into the country. They're going to be tariffed at a very very high rate, like 200 per cent. We'll give them a certain period of time to get their act together.'
