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Dulles Airport makes TSA list of most unusual finds at checkpoints

By Ciara Wells

Washington Dulles International Airport made it onto the Transportation Security Administration’s annual top 10 list of the most unusual items found at security checkpoints nationwide in 2022.

In September, TSA officers at Dulles Airport discovered two electric cattle prods packed alongside a guitar inside a carry-on guitar case. It ranked #8 on the top 10 list.

TSA said it would have had “no issue” if the items were in a checked bag, but passengers cannot bring such an item in carry-on luggage.

Two orange electric cattle prods were found inside a guitar case by TSA officers at Dulles Airport in September. (Courtesy TSA)

Additionally, another single cattle prod was detected in a carry-on bag at Dulles in May.

Among other items on the list were a firearm in a hollowed out peanut butter jar, a knife in a laptop and fentanyl inside repackaged candy wrappers.

For passengers who are not sure what they can and cannot bring in a carry-on luggage through a security checkpoint, visit TSA’s website for rules and regulations or tweet @AskTSA.

US House campaigns are underway. Yet a redistricting battle triggered by Trump rages in some states

By The Associated Press
Candidates are campaigning and voting is underway in some primaries. Yet a national battle to redraw U.S. House districts for partisan advantage is still raging in some states ahead of the November midterm elections. Voters in Texas and North Carolina already have cast ballots in primary elections for U.S. House districts redrawn at President Donald Trump's urging. But the final boundaries for voting districts remain uncertain in Missouri, even though candidates already are filing for office. And they also are unclear in Virginia, where new congressional districts could hinge both on a voter referendum and court rulings. Voting districts typically are redrawn once a decade, after each census. But Trump triggered an unusual round of mid-decade redistricting when he urged Texas Republicans last summer to redraw House districts to give the GOP an edge in the midterm elections. California Democrats reciprocated, and a tit-for-tat redistricting clash soon spread. So far, Republicans believe they could win nine additional seats in states where they have redrawn congressional districts, while Democrats think they could gain six seats elsewhere because of redistricting. But that presumes past voting patterns hold in November. And that's uncertain, especially since the party in power typically loses seats in the midterms and Trump faces negative approval ratings in polls.
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