Washington — The House and Senate on Thursday passed a temporary extension of a key surveillance authority that allows U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on foreigners without a warrant, buying ...

Congress has approved another short-term extension of controversial spy powers that permit US officials to monitor phone calls and text messages from foreign targets. The deadline to renew the ...

Washington — A powerful surveillance authority that the U.S. government uses to spy on foreigners cleared the House on Wednesday, resolving one stalemate that threatened to derail its renewal before ...

Congressional Republicans are racing to extend a controversial spying program before it is scheduled to lapse Friday at midnight. House lawmakers voted 235 to 191 in a bipartisan manner to extend ...

American flags fly in front of the U.S. Capitol at sunrise, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington. Credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP After a dramatic few weeks of scrapped votes and tough ...

The House passed a bill extending authorization for a contentious foreign spying power for three years, after weeks of GOP disputes initially forced Congress to issue a much shorter extension earlier ...

The U.S. Capitol is seen past antennas and satellites atop the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Washington Field Office near Judiciary Square on February 10, 2026. A law that has allowed federal ...

The GOP-led Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) deal is facing its first hurdle in the House Rules Committee. As the House Rules Committee takes up FISA, several GOP hardliners have offered ...

Every now and again, depending on how long a life Congress gave it last time, the FISA debate makes the news. Some in Congress want to give it a five-year extension this time around, but naysayers ...

Last month, I had a video interview with a candidate that caught me off guard. It was a second-round interview, and I was tasked with asking some deeper questions and providing some more technical ...