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• Edward Snowden says judge's ruling vindicates NSA surveillance disclosures

  16 Dec 2013: • NSA whistleblower welcomes Judge Richard Leon's ruling
  • 'Programs would not withstand constitutional challenge'
  • Judge: phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional
  
  

• NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules

  16 Dec 2013: Collection of US phone metadata 'likely' in breach of fourth amendment as judge describes scope of programe as 'Orwellian'

• Republicans eye immigration reform after budget deal exposes party rift

  13 Dec 2013: • House speaker signals major break from conservative wing
  • Break could be strategy to make immigration push in new year

• Budget deal passes House before Senate enters second night of partisan strife

  13 Dec 2013: • Two-year budget deal passes 332-94
  • Republicans fight in Senate and among selves

• Conservative rift laid bare as Boehner rips into Tea Party over budget strategy

  12 Dec 2013: Angry speaker says rightwing lobby groups have 'lost all credibility' after attempts to stir up opposition to a budget deal

• House Republicans set to vote for bipartisan budget bill

  12 Dec 2013: Vote scheduled for 5pm Thursday should allow Senate to pass legislation to ease sequester pressure before Christmas break

• Fragile US budget deal under fire from both Republicans and Democrats

  11 Dec 2013: Democrats seek to negotiate further deal on unemployment benefits while GOP fends off attacks from conservative groups

• US senator's chief of staff investigated over child abuse images

  11 Dec 2013: Tennessee Republican Lamar Alexander says Ryan Loskarn has been placed on administrative leave without pay

• US congressional leaders unveil two-year budget deal

  11 Dec 2013: Democrat and Republican negotiators reach two-year budget deal to fix federal spending at $1.012tn

• New bill seeks to repeal outdated state HIV discrimination laws

  10 Dec 2013: Proposed federal legislation targets 32 US states that retain laws making it illegal to not declare HIV status to sexual partners

• Obama shakes hands with Raúl Castro for first time at Mandela memorial

  10 Dec 2013: Historic handshake with Cuban leader at Mandela event as Obama urges world leaders to follow former president's example

• Senate Republicans block attempt to update firearms rules for 3D guns

  10 Dec 2013: Congress renewed existing law, which was due to expire on December 9, without approving amendment to close 3D-gun loophole
  
  

• Senate Republicans expected to block effort to close 3D-gun law loophole

  9 Dec 2013: Latest setback to gun control efforts in Congress comes just days before first anniversary of Newtown school shooting

• Twitter, Facebook and more demand sweeping changes to US surveillance

  9 Dec 2013: AOL, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple and LinkedIn to call for reforms to restore the public's trust in the internet

• Obama and Netanyahu downplay differences on Iran nuclear deal

  8 Dec 2013:

  Israeli prime minister says he shares US preference for ending Tehran's alleged weapons programme through diplomacy

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