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World powers, Iran reach framework for nuke deal
Prosecutors: Lubitz probed suicide methods, cockpit security
Matt Bai: Marco Rubio wants his identity back
Indiana governor OKs changes to religious objections law
Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies
Arkansas, Indiana approve fixes to acts seen as targeting gays
Boston bombing prosecutors ask judge to explain conspiracy to jury
Two New York City women accused of 'terrorist attack' plan
Gunmen attack university in Kenya
The Menendez indictment: 'Girlfriend 2,' the doctor and the senator

World powers, Iran reach framework for nuke deal

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 10:02 AM PDT

Iran and six world powers have agreed on the outlines of an understanding to limit Iran's nuclear programs, officials told The Associated Press Thursday. Negotiations continued on a dispute over how much of it to make public.

Prosecutors: Lubitz probed suicide methods, cockpit security

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 01:41 PM PDT

BERLIN (AP) — The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before he flew the plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people, German prosecutors said Thursday.

Matt Bai: Marco Rubio wants his identity back

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"Someone stole my credit card," Marco Rubio said when I entered his office last week.

Indiana governor OKs changes to religious objections law

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:07 PM PDT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has approved changes to new law that sparked boycotts of the state amid fears that it would allow discrimination against lesbians and gays.

Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:00 PM PDT

ARTESIA, Calif. (AP) — The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, a California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions of followers from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died. He was 88.

Arkansas, Indiana approve fixes to acts seen as targeting gays

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:12 PM PDT

By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the Republican-dominated statehouses of Indiana and Arkansas on Thursday approved fixes to religion acts that had provoked a storm of criticism from rights groups and big U.S. companies because the measures were seen as allowing for discrimination against gays. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, signed his state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law minutes after it arrived on his desk. There was no immediate indication whether Indiana Governor Mike Pence, also a Republican, had approved the new measure sent to him. Hutchinson had come under pressure from Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, to revoke the original measure which it said would send the wrong message about Arkansas, where it is based.

Boston bombing prosecutors ask judge to explain conspiracy to jury

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 09:11 AM PDT

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to instruct the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial that defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev need not have known all the details of the plot to be guilty.

Two New York City women accused of 'terrorist attack' plan

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:29 PM PDT

By Ellen Wulfhorst and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York City women have been arrested and accused of planning to wage a "terrorist attack" in the United States, according to a federal criminal complaint made public on Thursday. Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, plotted to hit police, government or military targets based on their "violent jihadist beliefs," according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. The complaint said Velentzas and Siddiqui were conspiring "to prepare an explosive device to be detonated in a terrorist attack in the United States." It said Velentzas had praised al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and said she and Siddiqui were "citizens of the Islamic State." The women, who were roommates in the city borough of Queens, had researched how to build an explosive device and that they had read textbooks on electricity and watched online videos about soldering, it said.