Congress has passed a temporary extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, preserving the intelligence community's authority to collect communications data on foreign targets while the program's domestic privacy implications remain unresolved. Section 702 has drawn sustained criticism because it allows the NSA and other agencies to collect data on American citizens incidentally swept up in foreign-targeted surveillance, without obtaining a warrant. The extension buys lawmakers additional time to negotiate reforms but does not alter the program's existing legal architecture or introduce new civil liberties protections. For businesses, legal advocates, and privacy-focused technology firms, the absence of structural reform means continued exposure to government data requests under a framework courts and critics have called constitutionally ambiguous. The next legislative window will determine whether Congress can broker a compromise between intelligence community access requirements and Fourth Amendment-grounded reform proposals that have stalled repeatedly in prior reauthorization cycles.
India's Expenditure Finance Committee has cleared a Rs 1.25 lakh crore outlay for India Semiconductor Mission 2.0, up 64 percent from ISM 1.0's Rs 76,000 crore. The proposal now goes to the Cabinet, as two chip plants begin commercial output and a third, CG Semi, is set to open July 4, 2026.
The Supreme Court blocked Trump from firing Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, preserving the Fed's independence from presidential removal power. A separate ruling the same day gave Trump broader authority to dismiss leaders of other independent federal agencies.
The US Supreme Court has blocked President Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, who faced unproven mortgage fraud allegations. The ruling preserves Fed independence for now and keeps a politically charged removal case alive in the courts.
The US Supreme Court, splitting along ideological lines, has allowed the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian immigrants.
