Late Night FISA Push Tanked By House GOP Hardliners

Late Night FISA Push Tanked By House GOP Hardliners

GOP hardliners blocked House Republicans’ late-night push to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), stalling a five-year renewal of key surveillance powers. The proposal to reauthorize also included new warrant requirements and tougher criminal penalties for misuse of FISA authorities, but lawmakers failed to reach a consensus. (RELATED: ‘Unprecedented Mass Surveillance’: Bipartisan Senators Warn Of Privacy Threat Tied To FISA Renewal)…

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Nassim Soleimanpour & Omar Elerian Debut Theater Producer Then & There

Nassim Soleimanpour & Omar Elerian Debut Theater Producer Then & There

Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and director Omar Elerian have launched a theater production company, There & Then. They are planning on a West End version of Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit at the Duchess Theatre as their inaugural production, presented in association with Nica Burns and her Nimax Theatre Group. The play sees a different performer taking to the…

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The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear”

The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear”

John Davidson’s story has been told in several TV documentaries over the past few decades, starting with a 1988 episode of the BBC series “Q.E.D.,” titled “John’s Not Mad,” which has been credited with doing much to educate the British public about Tourette’s. (Oliver Sacks, one of the episode’s prominent voices, offers a precise, sympathetic…

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