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.

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 ...

Here’s everything you need to know about the new Real ID requirements. So you’re probably wondering: What is the Real ID, anyway? It’s an enhanced form of identification, either a federally compliant ...

A flood of last-minute REAL ID applicants at California DMV offices have already prompted officials to ask those who can to delay their visits to obtain the ID. The deadline to obtain a REAL ID to ...