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The no-shoes rule was implemented by TSA nationwide in 2006. The official adoption of the rule came several years after Richard Reid, a British man who would come to be known as the "shoe bomber," attempted to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoe in December 2001.

TSA to end shoe removal policy at airport security checkpoints. The policy change is nationwide and goes into effect immediately, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. It's now OK to keep your shoes on at the airport.