The national deadline for Americans to obtain a REAL ID to use for travel an other purposes is fast approaching. Newsweek has put together everything you need to know before next week's deadline.

Starting May 7, anyone flying domestically or entering secure federal facilities in the United States must have a Real ID, Enhanced ID or valid passport. All states, the District of Columbia and the ...

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 ...