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ByKenDilanian The Associated Press WASHINGTON Houselead- ers have reached a biparti- san compromise on a bill that would end the National Security Agency's contro- versial collection of Amer- ican phone records, but the measure faces an uncertain future in the Senate. The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the latest version of a bill known as the USA Freedom Act by a bipartisan vote of 25 to 2. The measure seeks to codify President Barack Obama's proposal to end the NSA's collection of do- mestic calling records. It would allow the agency to request certain records held by the telephone companies under a court order in ter- rorism investigations. The authority to collect those records and other related surveillance pro- visions of the Patriot Act will expire June 1 unless Congress passes a law re- authorizing it. The House bill would do that, with changes. Senate leaders have introduced a bill that would reauthorize the pro- visions with no changes, al- lowing the NSA to continue collecting phone records. A similar bill to the one that cleared the Judiciary Committee passed the full House last year by a bipar- tisan vote of 303 to 121 but narrowly failed a proce- dural vote in the Senate. The Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. Bob Good- latte, R-Va., said the bill's provisions had been care- fully negotiated with both the intelligence commit- tee and intelligence agen- cies. During the hearing, law- makers said a deal had been reached to bring the USA Freedom Act to the floor without going through the intelligence committee, where many Republicans support continuing the NSA bulk collection. The NSA's collection and storage of U.S. "to and from" landline calling records — times, dates and numbers, but not content of the calls — was the most controver- sial program among many disclosed by former NSA systems administrator Ed- ward Snowden. Some NSA officials opposed the pro- gram, and independent evaluations have found it of limited value as a coun- terterrorism tool. NSA AND CONGRESS Dealreachedonphonerecordcollection By Andrew Taylor The Associated Press WASHINGTON The House Thursday adopted a com- promise GOP budget that promises to speed repeal of the President Barack Obama's health care law while giving the Pentagon an additional $38 billion. The 226-197 vote sends the non-binding budget plan to the Senate for a vote next week. It prom- ises to balance the budget in nine years with more than $5 trillion in spend- ing cuts, though Republi- cans make clear they aren't interested in actually im- posing controversial cuts to programs like Medicare, food stamps, Pell Grants or the traditional Medic- aid program with follow- up legislation. Instead, the House-Sen- ate budget framework in- creases spending in the near term by padding war accounts by almost $40 billion next year. And Sen- ate Republicans skittish over politically dangerous cuts to Medicare blocked a House move that called for giving subsidies to future retirees to purchase health insurance on the open mar- ket instead of a guaranteed package of Medicare cover- age. Under Washington's ar- cane budget process, law- makers first adopt a budget that's essentially a vision- ary document and follow it up with binding legis- lation to set agency bud- gets, cut or raise taxes, and make changes to so-called mandatory programs like Medicare and food stamps, whose budgets run as if on autopilot. Republicans tout the long-term economic ben- efits of a balanced bud- get and say it's better to tackle the long-term finan- cial problems of programs like Medicare and Medic- aid sooner rather than later. Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., said the GOP plan "will not only get Washington's fis- cal house in order but pave the way for stronger eco- nomic growth, more jobs and more opportunity. It invests in our nation's pri- orities, ensures a strong national defense and saves and strengthens and pro- tects important programs like Medicare and Social Security." But Democrats say the GOP plan unfairly tar- gets the middle class and the poor while leaving in place lucrative tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. "The Republican budget moves this country in ex- actly the wrong direction," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who Thursday an- nounced a run for the Dem- ocratic presidential nomi- nation. "At a time of mas- sive wealth and income inequality, it gives huge tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, while making devastating cuts to educa- tion, Medicare, affordable housing and prescription drug coverage." Obama is sure to veto the measure, which is sched- uled to advance by late July. WASHINGTON House adopts compromise GOP budget NASA,JOHNSHOPKINSUNIVERSITYAPPLIEDPHYSICSLABORATORY, CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON VIA AP This October 2008image shows the Rembrandt impact basin discovered by the Messenger spacecra during its second flyby of Mercury. By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPECANAVERAL,FLA. The only spacecraft ever to or- bit Mercury ended its four- year tour with a crash land- ing Thursday NA SA's Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun's closest planet at about 8,750 mph, creating a crater an estimated 52 feet (16 meters) across. Messenger became the first spacecraft to orbit hot, little Mercury, in 2011. It cir- cled the solar system's in- nermost planet 4,105 times and collected more than 277,000 images. "Today we bid a fond farewell to one of the most resilient and accomplished spacecraft ever to have ex- plored our neighboring planets," said lead scien- tist Sean Solomon, direc- tor of Columbia Universi- ty's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Solomon noted in a state- ment that Messenger set a record for planetary flybys — once past Earth, twice past Venus and three times past Mercury before enter- ing Mercury's orbit — and survived "both punishing heat and extreme doses of radiation" to surpass expec- tations. Flight controllers man- aged to keep the spacecraft going a few extra weeks by using helium gas not orig- inally intended as fuel. But the gas tank finally emptied and gravity's relentless tug did Messenger in. Mercury is the last of the rocky inner planets in our solar system — also count- ing Mars and Venus — to be littered by mankind. Thursday's crash oc- curred on the side of Mer- cury facing away from Earth and telescopes. Sev- eral minutes passed before NASA received confirma- tion. Controllers received no signal from Messenger when it was supposed to be back in the coverage zone — a sign that the spacecraft, measuring 10 feet solar wingtip to wingtip, had, in- deed, succumbed to gravity. Astronomers who used Messenger to detect Mer- cury's frozen water-covered poles and significantly off- center magnetic field called it an end of an era. Doomsday at Mercury: NASA cra falls from orbit and into planet SPACE By Amanda Lee Myers and David Dishneau The Associated Press BALTIMORE Police com- pleted their investigation into the death of Freddie Gray a day earlier than planned Thursday and de- livered it to the chief pros- ecutor in Baltimore, who pleaded for patience and peace while she decides whether to bring charges. The deputy commis- sioner also revealed a new detail that raises still more questions about what the officers involved have told investigators: He said the van carrying Gray to the police station made a pre- viously undisclosed stop that was captured on video by a "privately owned cam- era." A grocery store owner told The Associated Press later Thursday that it was his closed-circuit secu- rity camera that provided the recording. Speaking in Korean, Jung Hyun Hwang said officers came in last week to make a copy, and that the only other copy was stolen, along with his video equipment, when looters destroyed his store Monday night. He told the AP that he didn't see what the record- ing showed of the police van on April 12. State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby must review the ev- idence, consider charges and decide how to move forward in the death of Gray, who suffered severe spinal injuries at some point after he tried to run from police on April 12, and died a week later. Police Commissioner An- thony Batts took no ques- tions and provided no de- tails about the report, which he said represents the work of more than 30 investigators. Questions about the case must now go to Mosby, he said. "I understand the frus- tration; I understand the sense of urgency," Batts said. "That is why we have finished it a day ahead of time." Batts said his officers would keep probing at the direction of the state's attorney, while Mosby stressed that her office is doing its own investiga- tion. "We are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified. We ask for the public to re- main patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system," her statement said. Batts left it to Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis to release yet another offi- cial timeline of what hap- pened to Gray after his ar- rest nearly three weeks ago. In all, the previously un- disclosed stop now makes four stops between the time officers arrested Gray and his arrival at a police sta- tion, where he was found unresponsive. He was hos- pitalized in critical condi- tion and died a week later. Batts and Davis said nothing more about when or how investigators ob- tained the previously un- disclosed video or learned about the additional stop. However, five of the six of- ficers gave statements to investigators the day Gray was injured, and as re- cently as a week ago, the stop was not part of the of- ficial timeline, suggesting investigators learned of it later. Gray was arrested after he made eye contact with an officer and ran. Offi- cers chased him down and handcuffed him behind his back. Bystander vid- eos recorded police load- ing him, dragging his legs, into one of two metal com- partments in the back of the van. Police earlier said the van stopped once so that officers could put Gray in "leg irons" because he had become "irate;" stopped again because the driver asked for an additional unit to check on Gray's condition, and then again to put an additional pris- oner in the van's other com- partment before arriving at the station. Now police are saying an additional stop was made before the driver asked of- ficers to check on his con- dition. They said nothing about this stop other than its location — a desolate in- tersection where the gro- cery store is surrounded by vacant lots. Last week, Batts had said the second prisoner told in- vestigators the driver did not speed, make sudden stops or "drive erratically" during the trip, and that Gray was "was still moving around, that he was kick- ing and making noises" up until the van arrived at the police station. 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