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Large toner cartridges banned from passengers flights

(NEWSER) - The recent mail-bomb plot has prompted the Department of Homeland Security to enact new air cargo restrictions, effective immediately, the New York Times reports. Among the changes:

• Certain packages bound to the US from overseas will be subjects to what the anti-terror agency called “additional and enhanced screening.”
• Toner and ink cartridges weighing more than one pound are now banned from all passengers flights.
• A ban on all cargo flights coming from Yemen was expanded to include neighboring Somalia, another known al-Qaeda operations base.

Package bore same explosive as failed Christmas bombing

(NEWSER) - The US-bound mail bomb discovered yesterday in Yemen had al-Qaeda's fingerprint on it, Dubai officials say, having been packaged in a "professional manner" and containing the same explosive as the failed Christmas bombing. "The plot style carries features similar to previous attacks carried out by terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda," Dubai police said. More»

They're found in Dubai and England, prompt plane searches in US

(AP) - Authorities in Dubai and England intercepted apparent mail bombs addressed to Chicago-area Jewish institutions, triggering a worldwide terror alert. Both were found aboard cargo planes, and both were mailed from Yemen. As a result of those scares, cargo planes at airports in the US, including Newark and Philadelphia, also were searched, and officials said no explosives were found in this country. (President Obama called it a "credible terrorist threat.") More»

(NEWSER) - Senator Robert Byrd wants his colleagues to honor Ted Kennedy by renaming health care legislation in his honor, Politico reports. “As a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling,” said Byrd, 92, himself in poor health. "My heart and soul weeps at the loss of my best friend in the Senate, my beloved friend." More»

(NEWSER) - House lawmakers may well be be voting before the end of summer on a momentous health-care reform bill. But that doesn't mean they're actually going to read the bill. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer laughed off the suggestion when CNS News posed it. “If every member pledged to not vote for it if they hadn’t read it in its entirety, I think we would have very few votes,” he said. More»