US Senate Faces Deadline on Domestic Surveillance

The future scope of the U.S. government’s domestic surveillance activities could be decided this week as Congress works to reauthorize soon-to-expire anti-terrorism efforts while reforming a controversial data collection program. At issue are activities of the secretive National Security Agency exposed by fugitive former contractor Edward Snowden that created a political firestorm at home and abroad, and were recently ruled illegal by a federal appeals court. Last week, the House of...

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