House narrowly rejects effort to halt NSA surveillance program

Thursday, July 25, 2013

WASHINGTON -- The House narrowly rejected a challenge to the National Security Agency's secret collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records Wednesday night after a fierce debate pitting privacy rights against the government's efforts to thwart terrorism.

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