NPR Politics
A key U.S. spy tool has lapsed — now what?
The legal authority underpinning one of America's most critical intelligence-gathering tools has lapsed after Congress failed to reach a renewal agreement. FISA Section 702, which reportedly supplies more than 60% of the president's daily intelligence briefing, allows the government to collect communications of foreign targets overseas. The lapse leaves a significant gap in national security infrastructure and raises urgent questions about how long officials can operate on existing authorities before intelligence collection is meaningfully disrupted.
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A Trump push to cut 'statistical noise' could mean less data from the Census Bureau
The Trump administration is pushing to restrict the Census Bureau's use of differential privacy techniques — methods that introduce calculated noise into datasets to protect individual identities. The move could result in less granular public data available for redistricting, policy research, and federal resource allocation. Critics warn that stripping these protections may force the Bureau to withhold entire datasets rather than risk exposing personal information.
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