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The Senate has voted to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse. The legislation approved 60-34 with bipartisan support shortly after midnight Saturday would extend for two years the program known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It now goes to President Joe Biden’s desk to become law. U.S. officials have said the surveillance tool, first authorized in 2008 and renewed several times since then, is crucial in disrupting terror attacks, cyber intrusions and foreign espionage. But concerns over Americans' civil liberties almost blocked its reauthorization.

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Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the territory's southernmost city of Rafah  has killed at least nine people, six of them children. The strike late Friday came as Israel pursues its nearly seven-month offensive against the Hamas militant group in Gaza. The war has led to a dramatic escalation of tensions in an already volatile Middle East. Rafah currently hosts more than half of Gaza’s total population of about 2.3 million people, most displaced by fighting elsewhere. The Israeli government says it intends to push a ground offensive into the city, where it says Hamas is currently holed up.