It's a nightmare for any traveler: getting to the airport and not having their ID. For many Americans, a version of that headache will become a reality starting today when the federal government ...

Today, nearly 20 years after Congress passed legislation mandating a nationwide program known as Real ID, was the deadline for travelers to show the new identification for domestic flights. And yet ...

Twenty years in the making, the 2005 REAL ID Act is finally going into effect on May 7. The act, passed amid other increasingly tight security measures following 9/11, established that Americans would ...

Residents in a handful of U.S. states are not required to upgrade to new REAL IDs if they already possess an enhanced driver's license. Americans are less than one ...

It's often assumed the 2005 Real ID law was a result of the terrorist attacks of 2001 and the 9/11 Commission's recommendation that the federal government "set standards" for state-issued IDs. But ...