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The United States will review soon a list of countries whose air travelers are subject to tighter screening and could remove nations like Nigeria if they are no longer deemed to be security threats, a U.S. official said.

The United States does not want countries to use identical airport security systems which could make it easier for potential attackers to elude them, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Friday.

The nation’s top counterterrorism officials are testifying Wednesday before Congress about the Christmas bombing plot.

The Obama administration on Wednesday defended plans to try the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks in criminal courts despite harsh criticism from Republicans who say the trials are too risky.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and other Republicans say that putting suspected terrorists on trial in New York creats unnecessary security issues.

The Senate on Thursday approved a wide-ranging $42.9 billion measure to pay for improving U.S. border security, clamp down on illegal immigration and beef up cyber security in fiscal 2010.

One is a assemblyman in California; the other a piano tuner in Pennsylvania.