Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – the legal backbone for a huge share of NSA’s warrantless collection on foreign targets, which inevitably sweeps up Americans’ communications too – formally lapsed on June 15, 2026, after Congress failed…
A grand jury has indicted Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke on charges including criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports, in a case tied to an alleged $35,000 bribe paid to her in 2022 while she…
Archaeologists examining a 1,600-year-old mummy in Egypt have identified a fragment of Homer’s Iliad among the materials used in the embalming process — a striking reminder of how far Greek literary culture had spread into Roman-era Egypt centuries after the…
Sen. Rand Paul has released a tranche of diary entries written by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic, turning up the pressure ahead of Fauci’s scheduled appearance before a Senate committee this week on the origins of the coronavirus.…
Heavy flooding on the Rio Grande has torn roughly 120 large anti-crossing buoys — each weighing close to a ton — loose from their moorings near Eagle Pass, Texas, sending them drifting downriver toward the border community of Laredo, according…