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The Obama administration has partially1 declassified2 a court order that authorizes3 and sets the rules for the NSA抯 collections of US telephone information. NPR抯 Dina Temple-Raston reports the disclosure came ahead of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the agency抯 surveillance programs.
The director of national intelligence released something called a 損rimary order,?which lays out the rules for the NSA phone metadata program. The order came from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, and it restricts access to the information and says the metadata information can only be searched on a reasonable suspicion that there抯 a link to terrorism. The document didn抰 include details of what kind of evidence could link someone to terrorism, and the names of terrorist groups the program targets also appeared to have been redacted. The release of the order comes at a time when the NSA is under fire on Capitol Hill for its surveillance activities on Americans. Dina Temple-Raston, NPR News.
Syria is allowing a UN team to inspect three sites where chemical weapons allegedly were used during the country抯 two-year-old civil war. Inspectors5 have already gone to Damascus but have not disclosed the other two locations.
The House is expected to vote soon on bipartisan legislation that would reduce student loan rates at least in the short term. The measure was passed overwhelmingly by the Senate. NPR抯 Craig Windham reports backers of the bill say it would help 11 million students and save undergraduates an average of 1,500 dollars in interest charges.
The Senate bill like a similar measure passed by the House would link student loan rates to the rate on ten-year Treasury6 notes. That would cut the current loan rate of 6.8% by nearly 3% for undergraduates this fall. Democratic Senator Tom Harkin says the compromised bill will lock in that rate for students.
揂nd that means we抣l have an interest rate for the life for the loan.?
Although rates could rise for new loans in future years as the economy improves. The bipartisan bill would cap undergraduate students loan rates at 8.25%. House Speaker John Boehner is calling on GOP lawmakers to support the measure. Craig Windham, NPR News, Washington.
As lawmakers prepare to head back to their home states to face tough questions about jobs, health care and immigration, President Obama went to Capitol Hill today to give members of his party a pep talk. In closed-door sessions he told House and Senate Democrats7 they are on the right side of history. For their part, congressional Republicans say, the president should spend less time on the role talking about economic headway and more time in Washington working with the GOP.
The Federal Reserve says the US economy is going modestly, a downgrade from last month抯 assessment8. It says growth will pick up in the coming months, but the Fed may continue its stimulus9 measures because the economy still needs help.
Before the closing bell, Dow was off 21 at 15,500, NASDAQ up 10, S&P 500 up slightly. This is NPR News.
The Pentagon is spelling out dire4 consequences for the US military if the Congress fails to stop automatic spending cuts from taking effect next year. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel warned today that more sharp reductions may be ordered in the size of the Army and Marine10 Corps11. He says the Pentagon faces more than 50 billion dollars in cuts in 2014 and 500 billion over the next decade.
A military judge is considering Bradley Manning抯 punishment a day after the Army private first class was convicted on 20 espionage12 charges. Prosecutors13 argue Manning抯 actions compromised national security and troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Manning抯 attorneys say their client only wanted to stir up public debate about US foreign policy.
Today the federal government was to have its first-ever auction14 for the right to build offshore15 wind farms. NPR抯 Elizabeth Shogren reports the bidding shows that at least some companies are hot to build offshore wind projects.
The United States doesn抰 have any offshore wind farms, but the auction shows the industry still could take off. The government is taking bids on two patches of deep ocean off the coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Bidding on the smaller parcel stopped at the bargain price of $94,000. But by midday, two companies had bid up the larger parcel to more than half a million and weren抰 done yet. Maureen Bornholdt oversees16 offshore renewable energy projects for the federal Interior Department.
揥hen they win a lease from us today, they then basically have what I consider a dinner reservation.?
Winning companies would have four years to design a project and study its environmental effects. Elizabeth Shogren, NPR News, Washington.
US stocks sending the day mixed.
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