More than 36 hours after key provisions of the Patriot Act expired during a congressional stalemate, the Senate voted to curtail the bulk collection of Americans' phone records in what is being called a "remarkable reversal" of national security policy. Under the USA Freedom act, which now heads to President Obama's desk, where it is expected to pass, phone data would stay private, but the government could search records under court orders. Read more at The New York Times.