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Knives On Planes: Guide For Those Pocket Knives Now Allowed On US Flights

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After 9/11, the list of items and products banned on US flights got much longer. But the news from the Transport Security Administration (TSA) is that folding knife blades –and sports equipment - are now permitted again, in order for security personnel to focus on explosive devices.

The official report states the following:

"TSA will allow knives that do not lock and have blades that are 2.36 inches or 6 centimeters or less in length This is part of an overall Risk-Based Security approach, which allows Transportation Security Officers to better focus their efforts on finding higher threat items such as explosives.”

Southwest Airlines flight attendants union condemned the decision, qualifying it "dangerous" and "designed to make the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer," reports Fox news.

The usually despised TSA officers for their overzealous interventions during the pre-flight acceptance process are now making concessions. But hey, nothing bad can happen from trusting people with switchblades or throwing knives on an airplane right? We listed our own safety measures. You know, just in case.

1) Make sure you're sitting behind Angelina Jolie

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2) Brush your teeth before boarding

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3) Some restrictions still apply (see above)

4) Kick and run

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5) Tray-table down...impress your neighbor!

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6) American Airlines marmelade is best eaten with a spoon

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Maryinka As Memory: How A City In Ukraine Has Been Blown Out Of Existence

Citizens of the now destroyed Ukrainian city of Maryinka are left struggling to remember what their town used to look like.

Photo of the destroyed city of Maryinka

The destroyed city of Maryienka by Russian forces

Mykhailo Krygel

As Yulia Semendyaeva looks at a photo of the Ukrainian city of Maryinka, the place where she was born and lived 29 of the 30 years of her life, she cannot recognize a single street.

"The ponds are the only things that are still where I remember them," she says.

As Yulia’s hometown had become unrecognizable, the world, for the first time, was beginning to notice it.

When people began to share photos of the completely destroyed city, where seemingly not one building remained untouched, the Russian military boasted of the "impressive" results of what it calls the "denazification" project in Ukraine.

Today, Maryinka only exists on maps. Its streets still have names. But in reality, it is all only rubble.

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