The British government's insistence that its spies don't use the vast espionage powers of the U.S. National Security Agency to sidestep U.K. restrictions on domestic eavesdropping was called into question by a court document published Wednesday.

The two-page memorandum challenges that official line, carrying an acknowledgement by Britain's electronic eavesdropping agency GCHQ that it scoops up an undisclosed amount of "unanalyzed intercepted communications content" from its foreign intelligence partners without a warrant.

A U.S. District Court judge said he will decide by next week whether to approve a proposed settlement that resolves federal discrimination allegations against the City of Austin over how firefighters are hired.

A signature from Judge Lee Yeakel, expected by Nov. 7, would allow the Austin Fire Department to resume hiring fire cadets, a process that was suspended as the U.

During the punishment phase of Steven Thomas’ capital murder trial Tuesday, his ex-wife and ex-girlfriend both testified he had assaulted them and another witness said that during a substance-abuse therapy session Thomas had admitted killing a person.

Thomas was convicted Monday of capital murder in the death of 73-year-old Mildred McKinney in 1980.