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WASHINGTON — Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries – and that gathered data is destroyed every five years.

Last year, fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked against the database of millions of U.S. phone records gathered daily by the NSA in one of the programs, the intelligence officials said in arguing that the programs are far less sweeping than their detractors allege.

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ARDMORE, Pa. — Phil Mickelson began his week with a flight back-and-forth across the country. Even longer might be the 18 holes that now stand between him and that U.S. Open title he has been chasing his entire career.

And he’s never had a better opportunity than this one.

Despite a bogey on the final hole of a taxing Saturday afternoon, Mickelson was the sole survivor to par at Merion with an even-par 70 that gave him a one-shot lead over Hunter Mahan, Charl Schwartzel and Steve Stricker going into the last round.

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My dream was always to become a lawyer. I used to believe that law was the most direct way to impact the world around me. I thought entrepreneurs were only concerned with small issues, while lawyers worked on solving the big problems in the world.

It didn’t take too long for me to realize that I had it backwards.

I’ve learned that thinking like an entrepreneur isn’t what I once thought it was about –ruthlessly exploiting opportunities and constantly seeking out new ventures. Instead, it’s about being bold, creative, and mindful in your everyday actions.

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For those of you who may have thought that Taylor Swift and feminist lyrics were “never ever ever ever” going to go together, there is now a Twitter account to prove you wrong. Created by a rising senior at Brown University named Clara Beyer, @FeministTSwift has gone viral this week, gaining over 47,000 followers in its first few days of existence.

Beyer is a self-proclaimed feminist and a Taylor Swift fan, which she admitted to Buzzfeed “isn’t always easy.” Her internal struggle — and the internal struggle all Swifties must face — is perhaps best expressed in the account bio:

“Happy. Free. Confused. Oppressed by the patriarchy. At the same time.”

Click through 10 of the funniest tweets, below, and head over to the Feminist Taylor Swift Twitter account to read more.

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ARDMORE, Pa. — Tiger Woods made birdie at the first hole, only to watch his day go racing downhill from there.

By the time it was over, Woods skidded to seven bogeys and a 6-over-par 76 Saturday, tumbling down the leaderboard and matching his worst round as a pro at the U.S. Open. That left him 10 strokes behind third-round leader Phil Mickelson, the only player under par at the short but devilishly tough Merion Golf Club.

Despite leading the PGA Tour in putting in recent weeks, Woods needed 36 putts on the severely undulating greens. He blamed his inability to gauge the speed of those baffling putting surfaces for his three days of uneven play.

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