A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) baggage screener was charged with grand larceny after she was seen on surveillance videos removing currency from a jacket, place it in a latex glove and then leaving for a bathroom. When investigators found the woman she did not have the money on her, but the owner of the jacket and the cash says he is missing $5,000. The incident took place at New York's JFK International Airport.

DHS Secretary Napolitano delivered her “2nd Annual Address on the State of America's Homeland Security” at The National Press Club today (1/30). In this year’s address, subtitled “Homeland Security and Economic Security,” Napolitano discussed TSA, maritime borders, southwest border security, and how world events can factor into U.S. homeland security, among other issues.

The ban on carrying larger amounts of liquids on to airplanes at European airports may soon be lifted as a new technology is being tested that can scan and detect explosives in containers over 100ml. The new scanner called INSIGHT 100 supposedly can screen and detect explosives inside opaque containers within 5 seconds.

Before the TSA could question her after officers detected a gun in an x-ray scan of her bag, a woman grabbed the offending piece of luggage and entered Dallas-Fort Worth Airport's Terminal D this (1/18) morning. The woman was finally located on a plane that had already left the gate.

Authorities ordered the aircraft to return. It did and the woman, her bag and gun were removed. After questioning she was released. She said she had forgotten the firearm was in her bag. She faces charges from at least one state law violation, but officials say she will not face any federal charges.

With Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt Mars probe spacecraft scheduled to fall to earth sometime between January 14 and 16, the head of the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos implied that certain forces in the Western Hemisphere may be shooting down Russian spacecraft. Russian experts predict the Phobos-Grunt, including 7.5 tons of fuel which will most likely explode, will burn-up on re-entry with only 20-30 fragments weighing no more than 200 kilograms reaching earth.

RIA Novosti - "Popovkin indicated on Monday that certain forces in the Western hemisphere, which is a shadow zone for Russia, may be shooting down Russian spacecraft."

Following the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and as the country asserts control over its borders, new rules and regulations are going into effect including one that requires the U.S. Air Force to now ask for permission to travel through Iraqi airspace. This is the same airspace that U.S. aircraft has flown through at will for the past 20 years. The Iraqi's are also putting time limits on how long aircraft can be in their airspace. One Air Force official noted that other than the inconvenience this should not affect the Air Force's mission elsewhere in the region.

The pilot and first officer of a British Airways plane both reported feeling ill at the same time during a flight last month from Heathrow to Glasgow, Scotland. One passenger said they heard what they described as a "panicked" call for a member of the cabin crew to come to their aid. The flight made an emergency landing at Heathrow and the incident is being investigated.

A group of Russian bloggers' claim they were able to enter a Russian plant that manufacturers engines for civilian and military rockets and wander around and take pictures for five days without seeing any security has generated a response from the government. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has given Russia's space agency until January to fix security at all its plants or face the consequences. He also said, "I don't advise anybody to penetrate strategic installations anymore."