TSA to delay rules on driver’s licenses
NEW YORK – Fliers who don’t have the latest driver’s licenses will have a two-year reprieve before their IDs are rejected at airport security checkpoints.
Many travelers had been worried that the Transportation Security Administration would penalize them because of a federal law requiring the more-stringent IDs at the start of this year.
But late Friday afternoon, the Department of Homeland Security said passengers could continue using their current IDs until Jan. 22, 2018. Some would have until Oct. 1, 2020.
After those dates, passengers without the proper driver’s licenses would have to use other federally-approved forms of ID such as a passport.
‘Affluenza’ mom unhappy with jail cell
FORT WORTH, Texas – A “woman with means” who was arrested at a Mexican beach resort city with her fugitive teenage son who invoked “affluenza” as a defense after killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck has complained about the conditions of her Texas jail cell, a sheriff said Friday.
“She expressed a slight displeasure about her accommodations, and I told her this was a jail and not a resort,” Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said at a news conference.
Tonya Couch, 48, and her 18-year-old son, Ethan Couch, have been the objects of derision since Ethan was sentenced to probation, rather than jail time, for the 2013 wreck.
New ‘Mein Kampf’ on sale in Germany
MUNICH – An annotated edition of “Mein Kampf,” the first version of Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end of World War II, went on sale Friday in an effort to demystify the book and debunk the Nazi leader’s writing.
The Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History worked for several years on the plain-covered volume, officially titled “Hitler, Mein Kampf: A Critical Edition.” It launched the book days after the copyright of the German-language original expired at the end of 2015 – 70 years after Hitler’s death.
3 tourists stabbed at Egyptian resort
CAIRO – Two suspected militants stabbed and wounded three foreign tourists – two Austrians and a Swede – at a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
Security forces opened fire at the two assailants, killing one and seriously wounding the other, according to a ministry statement.
The ministry identified the slain attacker as 21-year-old Mohammed Hassan Mohammed Mahfouz, a student from Cairo’s Giza neighborhood.
Associated Press
