Washington — A key surveillance tool that lets the government collect foreign intelligence without a warrant is again at the brink of expiration. Barring an 11th-hour intervention, the spy authority, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is set to lapse at 12 a.m. Saturday after President Trump’s pick to oversee the … Read more
Working-class Fishtown has been gentrifying, but a lot of old-timers have decided to stick around. Source link
London’s firefighting service responded Wednesday to a blaze in the Golders Green neighborhood, home to a large Jewish community that’s been targeted by a number of arson attacks in recent months. Images from the scene showed the flames impacting a Jewish supermarket, Kosher Kingdom, and a column of black smoke rising above the area’s main … Read more
It may be America’s most valuable tool for foreign-intelligence collection—and letting it lapse would destroy its safeguards. Source link
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee library board has fired the county’s top librarian for refusing to comply with its vote to move more than 100 LGBTQ books from the children’s to the adult section over its claims that they promote “gender confusion.” The Rutherford County Library Board voted 8-3 on Monday evening to fire library … Read more
Democratic state AGs quote Milton Friedman, if you can believe it. Source link
It requires a balance-of-payments deficit—a problem that has become obsolete. Source link
President Trump’s move to invoke an obscure legal tool to impose a global 15% tariff on U.S. imports could face its own legal challenges, trade experts told CBS News. The White House said in a fact sheet on Friday that the temporary import duty, imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, addresses a “fundamental … Read more