Patriot Act surveillance powers lapse with no deal in Senate
The
NSA will lose its authority at midnight to collect Americans' phone
records in bulk, after an extraordinary Sunday Senate session failed to
produce an 11th-hour deal to extend the fiercely contested program.Read More ...
43 years after tragic car crash, Beau Biden’s death leaves Joe Biden grieving again
Earlier
this month, Vice President Joe Biden delivered the commencement address
at Yale University, where he recalled the 1972 car accident that killed
his wife, Neilia, and 1-year-old daughter, Naomi, and left his two
sons, Beau, 3, and Hunter, 2, hospitalized.Read More ...
Qatar extends travel ban on ex-Gitmo inmates; talks continue
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Qatar has agreed to temporarily extend travel bans on five
senior Taliban leaders released last year from the prison at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, in exchange for captured Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a senior U.S.
official said on Sunday.Read More ...
Senate lets NSA spy program lapse, at least for now
By
Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The legal
authority for U.S. spy agencies' collection of Americans' phone records
and other data expired at midnight on Sunday after the U.S. Senate
failed to pass legislation extending the powers. After debate pitting
Americans' distrust of intrusive government against fears of terrorist
attacks, the Senate voted to advance reform legislation that would
replace the bulk phone records program revealed two years ago by former
National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Although the Senate
did not act in time to keep the program from expiring, the vote was at
least a partial victory for Democratic President Barack Obama, who had
pushed for the reform measure as a compromise addressing privacy
concerns while preserving a tool to help protect the country from
attack.Read More ...
A tranquil Muslim hamlet in the Catskills - until the attack plot
By Laila Kearney ISLAMBERG, New York (Reuters) - Just beyond the gated entrance to the tiny Catskills community of Holy Islamberg, population 200, cows graze and ducks glide on a tranquil pond. Islamberg sits about 150 miles northwest of New York City, but the small enclave of Muslim families living on shared land feels a world away from city life, which is what its founders intended 30 years ago, when they established the hamlet on 70 acres of pasture land and dense woods in upstate New York. Last month, however, the community's serenity was disrupted by news that a Tennessee man had pleaded guilty to charges of plotting an attack on Islamberg and its residents.
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Obamas visit Biden family after death of vice president's son
U.S.
President Barack Obama visited Vice President Joe Biden and his family
on Sunday to offer condolences after the death of Biden's son, Beau.
Beau Biden, 46, who served eight years as attorney general of Delaware,
died on Saturday after a recurrence of brain cancer. Obama and his wife,
Michelle, went to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the vice president's
official residence, to offer their condolences to the Biden family.Read More ...
Sun returns to Texas, revealing flood damage across state
Most
of Texas was set to get its first period of extended sunshine in weeks,
allowing surging rivers to recede as emergency-management officials
turn their attention to cleanup efforts in such places as Houston, where
damage estimates top $45 million.Read More ...
Heartfelt tributes pour in for Beau Biden
Leaders
from both sides of the political aisle are mourning the death of Beau
Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, who died Saturday of brain
cancer at age 46.Read More ...
Kerry breaks leg in bicycle crash; returning to US Monday
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg in a bicycle crash Sunday
after striking a curb, and scrapped the rest of a four-nation trip that
included an international conference on combating the Islamic State
group.Read More ...
Watchdog finds ex-Nazis got $20.2 million in Social Security
In
a forthcoming report triggered by an Associated Press investigation,
the top watchdog at the Social Security Administration found the agency
paid $20.2 million in benefits to more than 130 suspected Nazi war
criminals, SS guards, and others who may have participated in the Third
Reich's atrocities during World War II.Read More ...
Beau Biden dies at 46; son of VP had life of adversity
The
former Delaware attorney general was reported to be undergoing
treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington.Read More ...
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