Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) proposed sweeping digital privacy protections Tuesday that would require the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.

Leahy’s proposal (.pdf) would nullify a provision of the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act that allows the government to acquire a suspect’s e-mail or other stored content from an internet service provider without showing probable cause that a crime was committed, as long as the content has been stored on a third-party server for 1...

The worst seems to be over for South Asia’s vultures, which just a decade ago appeared to be headed straight for extinction.

Hundreds of thousands were dying every year. Scientists had no idea why. Only a last-minute stroke of luck revealed how the majestic creatures were being accidentally poisoned by medicine given to cows.

The medicine was banned in animals in 2006. Its use hasn’t ceased completely, but it’s diminished enough to slow the vulture die-off. Their survival is far from assured, but at least they have a chance.

“There used to be millions, right in the heart of all the big cities. T...