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The Associated Press AQUINNAH,MASS. A his- toric Martha's Vineyard lighthouse arrived at its new location on Saturday after a painstaking 135- foot move from the edge of an eroding cliff. Richard Pomroy, man- ager of the relocation proj- ect, said the 160-year-old Gay Head Light landed at its new location at 11:10 a.m. and lined up "beauti- fully dead center" on the concrete pad that will be its new home. The nearly $3.5 million project is expected to pro- tect the lighthouse from the threat of erosion for at least another 150 years. Its journey began Thurs- day when a seasoned team of lighthouse movers used powerful hydraulic pis- tons to push the 400-ton, 52-foot tall structure along steel rails at roughly 5-foot increments. At the finish, Pomroy said, a Dixieland band played at a champagne christening for hundreds of spectators. "It's been a revolving door all day long," he said. Pomroy said the next phase begins Wednesday when a new foundation will be started. Crews will also break down the mov- ing apparatus, repair the brick-and-mortar light- house, and restore the scoured-out land around it. ERODING CLIFF ALEXBRANDON—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE President Barack Obama, le , walks around Gay Head Lighthouse while on vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Aquinnah, Massachusetts. Historic Gay Head Li gh th ou se c om pl et es its 135-foot move LAS VEGAS The IRS says a $600 slot machine or bingo jackpot might get its attention in the future, and the prospect has riled gamblers and the casino industry. The agency currently re- quires reporting on a sin- gle jackpot or win that's $1,200 or more for federal income-tax purposes. It has toyed with cutting that threshold in half, to $600. A reportable keno win also could be lowered. The threshold for that game is $1,500. The IRS suggested it is considering making the change and asked for public comments. A pub- lic hearing in Washing- ton, D.C., is scheduled for June 17. The threshold was first established in 1977. The IRS declined to comment. The American Gaming Association is against the changes and says it has collected nearly 10,000 signatures from op- ponents. GAMBLING INDUSTRY IRSpitchestocutjackpottaxthreshold By Denise Lavoie The Associated Press BOSTON A man who was under 24-hour surveillance by terrorism investigators was shot and killed Tues- day after he lunged with a knife at a police officer and an FBI agent outside a phar- macy, authorities said. A law enforcement of- ficial with knowledge of the investigation into what happened said the man had been making threats against law enforcement. The official wasn't autho- rized to release details of the investigation and spoke on the condition of ano- nymity. Police Commissioner William Evans said mem- bers of the Joint Terrorism Task Force approached Us- aama Rahim in the city's Roslindale neighborhood on Tuesday morning to question him about "ter- rorist-related information" they had received when he went at officers with a large military-style knife. Evans said officers re- peatedly ordered Rahim to drop the knife but he continued to move toward them with it. He said task force members fired their guns, hitting Rahim once in the torso and once in the abdomen. Rahim, 26, was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Evans would not disclose why Rahim was under sur- veillance. But Evans said a "level of alarm" prompted authorities to try to ques- tion him. "Obviously, there was enough information there where we thought it was appropriate to question him about his doings," Ev- ans said. "He was someone we were watching for quite a time." Evans later said author- ities knew Rahim "had some extremism as far as his views," but he would not confirm media reports that Rahim had been radical- ized by online propaganda by the Islamic State group. Evans said the officers didn't have their guns drawn when they ap- proached Rahim. He said police have video show- ing Rahim "coming at offi- cers" while they are back- ing away. That account differs from one given by Rahim's brother Ibrahim Rahim, who said in a Facebook posting that his youngest brother was killed while waiting at a bus stop to go to his job. "He was confronted by three Boston Police offi- cers and subsequently shot in the back three times," he wrote. "He was on his cell- phone with my dear father during the confrontation needing a witness." Ibrahim Rahim, a former assistant imam at a Boston mosque, said he was trav- eling to Boston to bury his brother. The Suffolk district at- torney's office and the FBI said they will investigate Rahim's shooting, a routine procedure for shootings in- volving police. LUNGED WITH KNIFE Ma n un de r su rv ei ll an ce b y terror investigators is shot dead STEVEN SENNE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police vehicles sit in front of a multi-storied home Tuesday in Everett, Massachusetts, being searched by authorities in connection with a man shot and killed earlier in the day in Boston. By Erica Werner The Associated Press WASHINGTON Congress approved sweeping changes Tuesday to surveillance laws enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks, eliminating the National Security Agen- cy's disputed bulk phone- records collection program and replacing it with a more restrictive measure to keep the records in phone com- panies' hands. Two days after Congress let the phone-records col- lection and several other anti-terror programs ex- pire, the Senate's 67-32 vote sent the legislation to Pres- ident Barack Obama, who signed it Tuesday night. "This legislation will strengthen civil liberty safe- guards and provide greater public confidence in these programs," Obama said in a statement. Officials said it could take at least several days to restart the collection. The legislation will re- vive most of the programs the Senate had allowed to lapse in a dizzying collision of presidential politics and national security policy. But the authorization will un- dergo major changes, the legacy of agency contractor Edward Snowden's explo- sive revelations two years ago about domestic spying by the government. In an unusual shifting of alliances, the legislation passed with the support of Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, but over the strong opposition of Senate Majority Leader MitchMcConnell.McConnell failed to persuade the Senate to extend the current law un- changed, and came up short in a last-ditch effort Tuesday to amend the House version, as nearly a dozen of his own Republicans abandoned him in a series of votes. "This is a step in the wrong direction," a frus- trated McConnell said on the Senate floor ahead of the Senate's final vote to approve the House version, dubbed the USA Freedom Act. He said the legislation "does not enhance the pri- vacy protections of Ameri- can citizens. And it surely undermines American se- curity by taking one more tool form our warfighters at exactly the wrong time." The legislation remakes the most controversial as- pect of the USA Patriot Act — the once-secret bulk col- lection program that allows theNationalSecurityAgency to sweep up Americans' phone records and comb through them for ties to in- ternational terrorists. Over six months the NSA would lose the power to collect and store those records, but the government still could gain court orders to obtain data connected to specific num- bers from the phone com- panies, which typically store them for 18 months. SURVEILLANCE Obama signs bill remaking NSA phone records program ANDREW HARNIK — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, right, accompanied by, from le , Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. and Sen. 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