News of the Day From Across the Nation

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has ruled that the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its once-secret program that systematically collects records of Americans’ domestic phone calls in bulk.

[...] the American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday that it would ask a federal appeals court to issue an injunction to halt the program, setting up a potential conflict between the two courts.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made $7.4 million during 2013 and paid about 40 percent in taxes, according to his tax return, part of a disclosure of 33 years of tax information released Tuesday by his presidential campaign.

In releasing the returns, Bush may be trying to sidestep the kind of controversy that dogged the GOP’s last nominee, Mitt Romney, who endured months of criticism about the taxes he paid on the fortune he earned as a private equity manager.

4 Gulf spill: A former BP engineer is entitled to a new trial on an obstruction of justice charge stemming from an investigation of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Prosecutors accused Mix of deleting text messages about the amount of oil flowing from BP’s Macondo well after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.