23+ hour, 48+ min ago  (951+ words) A key provision of the'Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act'permits the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI and other agencies to collect and analyze vast amounts of overseas communications without a warrant. It incidentally sweeps up the conversations of any Americans who interact…...

20+ hour, 50+ min ago  (882+ words) By FATIMA HUSSEIN, AAMER MADHANI, WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters at a White House briefing Wednesday that the U. S. plans to ramp up economic pain on Iran, and said the new moves will be…...

20+ hour, 26+ min ago  (689+ words) The testimony from Russell Vought jump-starts the White House's push to increase defense spending to nearly $1. 5 trillion in the next budget year, up from nearly $1 trillion this year, while cutting health research, heating assistance and scores of other domestic programs…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1011+ words) By SAMY MAGDY, SAM METZ, MUNIR AHMED and MIKE CORDER, Associated Press The White House said any further talks would likely take place in the'Pakistani capital of Islamabad, though no decision had been made on whether to resume negotiations. The…...

20+ hour, 35+ min ago  (444+ words) Lawmakers in the House of Commons on Wednesday expressed concern about marmalade's future after media reports that U. K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's push for closer ties with the European Union could mean unwanted change for the tangy toast topping. Along with…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (753+ words) Several Allentown nonprofits and agencies that help the city's homeless population are scrambling to help dozens of people who soon will be displaced both by the early closure of a winter warming station and a city sweep of a small…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (632+ words) Although Israeli strikes on Beirut have eased since last week's'shattering 10-minute bombardment'without warning killed over 350 people across the country, southern Lebanon remains under attack. The Israeli military has periodically issued warnings urging residents to flee wide swathes of southern Lebanon…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1000+ words) By STEPHEN GROVES and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Reps. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, and Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, both announced within hours of each other Monday that they were leaving Congress. Their decisions came the day before the House returned…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (434+ words) During a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Beijing, Xi said the strong vitality and exemplary significance of the friendship treaty between the two countries stand out even more under such a backdrop. Xi said China and Russia…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (525+ words) Trump threatens to fire Powell if the Fed Chair decides to stay on after his term ends next month'The Morning Call By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, Associated Press Two prosecutors and an investigator from U. S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office were…...