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The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

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A senior Democratic aide familiar with the negotiations referred to the section as a “legislative scam,” telling WIRED: “There are many members who don’t quite understand the ins and outs of this law. Tossing the phrase ‘Fourth Amendment requirement’ into the bill is the speaker and the intelligence community working to dupe them into supporting a bill that has no meaningful constitutional safeguards.” Section 5 directs the US attorney general to revoke existing rules on congressional access to the secret court that oversees the 702 program and issue new ones within 60 days. The provision is not self-executing: The access it promises is only as broad as the attorney general chooses to make it. Section 6 is the only provision in the bill with any prospective bite. It strikes language in current law that lets an FBI supervisor, or any employee of equivalent rank, approve a query of the 702 database using an American’s identifier, leaving the decision to an attorney. The same attorneys, however, sit within the class of career employees the administration reclassified …

After 2 failed votes, Mike Johnson unveils new plan to extend key U.S. spy powers : NPR

After 2 failed votes, Mike Johnson unveils new plan to extend key U.S. spy powers : NPR

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., takes questions at a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle caption J. Scott Applewhite/AP Speaker Mike Johnson, R.-La., is forging ahead with his latest proposal to renew a key American spy power. His bill, revealed Thursday, is largely unchanged from a previous plan which failed in a series of overnight votes earlier this month. The program at center of the debate, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), is set to expire on April 30. FISA 702 allows U.S. intelligence agencies to intercept the electronic communications of foreign nationals located outside of the United States. Some of the nearly 350,000 foreign targets whose communications are collected under the provision are in touch with Americans, whose calls, texts and emails could end up in the trove of information available to the federal government for review. For almost two decades, privacy-minded lawmakers from both parties have sought to require specific court approval before federal law enforcement can conduct a targeted review …

Trump says Lebanon and Israel agree to extend Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by 3 weeks

Trump says Lebanon and Israel agree to extend Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by 3 weeks

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On Wednesday, Amal Khalil, a well-known Lebanese journalist covering southern Lebanon, was killed by an Israeli strike.  Lebanese health officials said the Israeli military opened fire on an ambulance that responded to the scene, preventing rescuers from reaching her. Her body was pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building several hours later. The Israeli military denied that it had deliberately targeted journalists or fired on rescuers, but the case sparked widespread anger in Lebanon ahead of the Washington talks. After a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Lebanon’s Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Mitri said the government is working on a report documenting alleged war crimes by Israel and that ministers had discussed joining the International Criminal Court. The latest Israel-Hezbollah war has killed around 2,300 people in Lebanon, including hundreds of women and children, and displaced over 1 million people. Last week’s talks were the first between Israel and Lebanon since 1993. Both countries have relied on indirect communication, often brokered by the US or UNIFIL, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon. Lebanon’s top …

White House Expected to Extend Jones Act Waiver up to 90 Days, Sources Say

White House Expected to Extend Jones Act Waiver up to 90 Days, Sources Say

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April 23 (Reuters) – ⁠The ⁠White House is ⁠expected to extend the Jones ​Act waiver for up to 90 days ‌as early as Friday ‌to help blunt fuel price ⁠pressures ⁠tied to the Iran conflict, according to two ​sources familiar with the decision. The move would temporarily ease requirements that goods transported ​between U.S. ports be carried on American-built ⁠and ⁠American-crewed vessels, allowing foreign-flagged ⁠ships ​to move fuel and other key commodities ​more freely ⁠as the administration seeks to contain energy market disruptions from the war and tensions in the Strait of ⁠Hormuz. A White House official told Reuters the extension is ⁠under consideration, but declined to comment on the length and timing of any announcement. Trump waived Jones Act limitations for 60 days starting March 17, hoping the move would help tame the surge in fuel prices ⁠caused by the Iran war by increasing shipments from the U.S. Gulf Coast to other coastal markets in ​the country. (Reporting By Jarrett Renshaw; Editing ​by Nia Williams) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – …

Trump says the US will extend its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request

Trump says the US will extend its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States was indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran — a day before it was to expire — as a new round of peace talks was on hold. The announcement appeared to ease fears that the fighting, which had shaken energy markets and the global economy, would promptly resume. Pakistan had planned to host a second round of talks, but the White House put on hold Vice President JD Vance’s planned trip to Islamabad as Iran rebuffed efforts to restart negotiations. Iran has not yet responded to Trump’s announcement of the ceasefire extension. Both countries have warned that, without a deal, they were prepared to resume fighting. Pakistan scrambles to get US and Iran to negotiate Pakistani leaders, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, worked intensively to get both sides to agree to a second round of ceasefire talks, according to two officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Sharif later thanked Trump for his “gracious acceptance” …

Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump’s Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance

Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump’s Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance

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House Speaker Mike Johnson convened a vote in the dead of night on Friday, calling lawmakers back to the floor after midnight in a push to preserve a surveillance program that allows federal agents to read the communications of Americans without a warrant. Twenty Republicans broke ranks and sank it, a sharp rebuke of both Johnson and President Donald Trump, who had spent the week personally working holdouts to back the bill. The failed vote caps weeks of bipartisan resistance to a clean reauthorization of the surveillance program, authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The 702 program permits wiretaps of communications ostensibly belonging to foreigners overseas, but is also known to intercept vast amounts of Americans’ emails, texts, phone calls, and other data—private messages that the FBI and other agencies routinely access without a warrant. Congressional authorization for the program will expire on Tuesday. The White House and GOP leadership have spent weeks pressing for a “clean” reauthorization, fending off a bipartisan alliance of House Freedom Caucus Republicans and progressive Democrats …

Mediators move to extend US-Iran ceasefire, Trump says talks could resume soon

Mediators move to extend US-Iran ceasefire, Trump says talks could resume soon

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President Donald Trump said talks with Iran to end the war could soon resume and end in a deal, telling the world to watch out for an “amazing two days”, while US forces imposing a blockade turned back vessels leaving Iranian ports. With the prospect of US and Iranian officials returning to Pakistan for more talks, Vice President JD Vance, who led negotiations that ended on Sunday with no breakthrough, said he felt positive about where things ​stood. Source link

NeNe Leakes, Carlos King Extend Queen & King of Reality Tour

NeNe Leakes, Carlos King Extend Queen & King of Reality Tour

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NeNe Leakes and Carlos King, two pioneers of the reality television space, have added four additional tour dates to their previously sold-out debut. The joint Real Housewives of Atlanta alums are extending their buzzy Queen & King of Reality Tour with stops in Birmingham, Tampa, Dallas and Houston, to take place this May and June, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively reveal. The Queen & King of Reality Tour promises to deliver “candid, unfiltered conversations about pop culture, relationships and gossip, with NeNe reliving her most legendary moments from reality television.” “Baby, when I say the girls showed up, they showed OUT. The love has been so real, we had no choice but to run it back in more cities,” Leakes said in a statement of their decision to extend the tour. “This tour is fun, it’s exciting, it’s honest and it’s exactly what the fans have been asking for. If you thought the first shows were something, just wait… we’re taking it up another level.” Leakes is an original Real Housewives of Atlanta star, one …

Russia refuses to extend Easter truce unless Zelensky ‘accepts its terms’

Russia refuses to extend Easter truce unless Zelensky ‘accepts its terms’

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Russia will not extend a truce with Ukraine over Orthodox Easter unless Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accepts its terms, the Kremlin said in an interview aired Sunday. “Sustainable peace can come when we secure our interests and achieve the goals we set from the very start. This can be done literally today. But Zelensky must accept these well-known solutions,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to Russian news agencies.  “Until Zelensky musters the courage to assume this responsibility, the special military operation will continue after the truce expires,” Peskov added, referring to the war in Ukraine. Earlier Sunday, Ukraine and Russia accused each other of violating the truce in place for Orthodox Easter thousands of times, as the war dragged on into its fifth year. Both sides had agreed to observe the halt to hostilities for the religious holiday, after Putin agreed on Thursday to a proposal made by Zelensky more than a week before. “As of 7am on 12 April, 2,299 ceasefire violations were recorded. Specifically: 28 enemy assault actions, 479 enemy shellings, 747 strikes …