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Donald Trump’s candidate for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional district has scrubbed the former President from her campaign website, and appears to be in the middle of abandoning her run for Congress.Ortagus’s Twitter biography has changed in recent weeks, since she was first removed from the ballot by the Tennessee GOP under rules concerning Republican bonafides. Other removed candidates are challenging the rules in federal court.) But Ortagus’s website, which featured multiple endorsements and mentions of former President Donald Trump, is now a simple landing page with the tag line, “Thank You” on a browser tab.

Huge round-up of T&A ... er ... TSA links coming up!

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning that any would-be commercial airline passenger who enters an airport checkpoint and then refuses to undergo the method of inspection designated by TSA will not be allowed to fly and also will not be permitted to simply leave the airport. That person will have to remain on the premises to be questioned by the TSA and possibly by local law enforcement. Anyone refusing faces fines up to $11,000 and possible arrest. "Once a person submits to the screening process, they can not just decide to leave that process," says Sari Koshetz, regional TSA...

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — The organizers of the Miss California USA pageant sued former beauty queen Carrie Prejean Oct. 19 to get back the $5,200 they gave her in January for breast implants. The legal action, a countersuit responding to a suit by Prejean, also seeks proceeds from a book Prejean is writing. Prejean won last year’s Miss California USA pageant, then got breast implants to help her compete in the national pageant in April, where she placed second. There she ignited a controversy when she expressed her opposition to gay marriage in response to a question by a pageant...

How's this for a celebrity endorsement? Model and actress Angie Harmon, who was part of a group of Hollywood celebrities that supported John McCain [*] last year, loves NewsBusters. In fact, she told In Style magazine that NB's her favorite website (from June 2009 edition via LexisNexis, no link available, h/t NBer Stacy Bergfeld):

TSA Reportedly To Fire Director Of Philadelphia Screeners Philadelphia TSA Director On Administrative Leave POSTED: 11:33 PM EST December 30, 2003 PHILADELPHIA -- NBC 10 News has learned that the director of federal screeners at Philadelphia International Airport will soon be fired. Law enforcement sources said James Golden, the TSA director at the airport, has mismanaged his duties and has made serious ethical lapses in judgment. He hired and promoted his son-in-law to several high-level management positions. He also reportedly brought in a former exotic dancer and a former dental hygienist and made them supervisors over the security screeners. All...