No US Senate deal, spy provisions expire at midnight: Lawmakers

Washington: The US Senate failed Sunday to reach a deal that would prevent key counterterrorism provisions from expiring at midnight, after Senator Rand Paul blocked the chamber from advancing a solution.

"The Patriot Act will expire tonight," said Paul, a 2016 presidential candidate, after hours of ultimately fruitless debate on how to get a reform bill across the finish line that would have preserved important national security provisions.