Congressional Republicans are racing to extend a controversial spying program before it is scheduled to lapse Friday at midnight.  House lawmakers voted 235 to 191 in a bipartisan manner to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term. The vote split Republicans, with more than 20 GOP privacy hawks voting against a three-year extension of the warrantless surveillance...

California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter sent an email to donors that included the phrase “F*** Trump” four times — once even in the subject line — just a day after the most recent assassination attempt on President Donald Trump’s life at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday. The “F*** Trump” email from Porter’s campaign is the latest controversy to trouble Porter, who has previously been scrutinized...

The U.S. military is racing to boost missile production after years of output that lagged behind current demand left key weapons in short supply, according to an analysis of Pentagon procurement data. At current production rates, some of the Pentagon’s most critical munitions would take years — and in some cases decades — to replenish, exposing a gap between battlefield use and industrial capacity that cannot be quickly...