WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court today ruled in favor of the Obama administration in a dispute over the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of telephone data on hundreds of millions of Americans.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court ruling that said the program likely violates the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches.The ruling means the government can continue collecting the data for the next few months, although the program is set to expire at the end of …