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Associated Press Monday, 1 June 2015, 07:52 Last update: about 12 years ago

CONGRESS-SURVEILLANCE

WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency loses its authority to collect Americans' phone records in bulk, after Republican Sen. Rand Paul stands in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday session in the Senate. But the program is likely to be revived within days. 

UNITED STATES-TALIBAN FIVE

WASHINGTON — Qatar has agreed to temporarily extend travel bans on five senior Taliban leaders released last year from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for captured Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a senior U.S. official says.

PEOPLE-KIM KARDASHIAN

LOS ANGELES — Kimye are expecting another baby. Kim Kardashian says she is pregnant with her second child with Kanye West.

FIFA-WARNER

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner renews his criticism of the United States, where he faces corruption charges, by releasing a pair of videotaped comments — one of them based on a story by satirical website The Onion.

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