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Andrew Getty, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, appears to have died of natural causes or an accident inside his Hollywood Hills estate, a coroner’s official said. A time of death has not been determined, but a preliminary investigation suggests that foul play was not involved, authorities said. A security hold — a directive from detectives to the coroner’s office not to publicly disclose details about a case — has…

Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was hospitalized Tuesday, her official website confirmed. When asked for information regarding Mitchell, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said that about 2:30 p.m., a person in the 600 block of Funchal Road was taken to an area hospital in fair condition. He would not identify the person or provide further information. Mitchell has long lived in the Bel-Air neighborhood. Around 10 p.m., the verified Twitter account for Mitchell’s website…

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks question during a news conference, Tuesday, March 31, 2015, in Indianapolis. Pence said that he wants legislation on his desk by the end of the week to clarify that the state’s new religious-freedom law does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)The Associated Press Share Photo   Reddit ✉ Indiana Gov. Mike Pence speaks question during a news conference, Tuesday, March…

(Bloomberg) — Nigerian bonds rose to the highest in almost four months, while the country’s stocks were poised to extend gains, after former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari defeated President Goodluck Jonathan in a largely peaceful vote. The African nation’s $500 million of Eurobonds due in July 2023 advanced for the 11th day, pushing the yield down 19 basis points to 6.01 percent by 8:46 a.m. in Lagos. The Nigerian Stock…

A police officer outside the home of Andrew Getty, an heir to Getty oil fortune, who was found dead Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) This post has been updated. The grandson of one of the most storied American industrialists has been found dead in Los Angeles. Andrew Getty, 47, grandson of oil baron J. Paul Getty and an heir to the family’s fortune, was found dead at his home on…

The video allegedly shows passengers on board the flight clearly aware of what is happening to them. They can be heard screaming, and there are cries of “My God” in several different languages. There are also three loud metallic bangs, which could be the sound of Captain Patrick Sondheimer trying to break down the locked cockpit door. The video shows what appears to be part of the aircraft hitting the…

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Dusseldorf, Germany (CNN)Years before he was at the controls of a Germanwings plane that plunged into the French Alps, Andreas Lubitz told the airline he worked for that he’d had a bout with depression. Lubitz, the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 who authorities accuse of deliberately crashing the plane, told his Lufthansa flight training school in 2009 that he had a “previous episode of severe depression,” the airline said Tuesday….

In other times, maybe even fairly recently, the religious freedom law signed last week in Indiana could have allowed Republican lawmakers to appeal to their core conservative supporters without attracting much notice from the general public. But the blowback against it that has upended the state’s business and political culture offers a vivid example of the unprecedented speed with which public opinion over gay rights has shifted. The change, stunning…

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<!– Robert Kovacik / KNBC Los Angeles police investigate a death at the Hollywood Hills home of Andrew Getty. LOS ANGELES — Andrew Getty, 47, grandson of the oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, was found at his Hollywood Hills home, his family said Tuesday night….

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND — Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program blew past a Tuesday deadline, U.S. officials said, with diplomats struggling to reach con­sensus on the difficult issues of sanctions, enrichment research and future limits. The Obama administration had committed itself to reach a broad political agreement with Iran and a group of world powers by March 31, with three additional months to nail down many complex details. The decision to keep…

PARIS—Deutsche Lufthansa AG has unearthed documents showing that Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz informed its own flight-training school that he had a “previous episode of severe depression,” the airline said Tuesday, renewing questions over whether it should have paid closer attention to the 27-year-old’s record. Mr. Lubitz informed the school in 2009 of the episode in email correspondence before resuming flight…

Dusseldorf, Germany (CNN)Reports say video found in the wreckage on a French mountainside shows the nightmarish final seconds of Germanwings Flight 9525, but a police spokesman said the accounts were “completely wrong.” French magazine Paris Match and German newspaper Bild reported that a video recovered from a cell phone at the wreckage site showed the inside of the plane moments before it crashed. “One can hear cries of ‘My God’…

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Negotiators trying to produce a nuclear accord with Iran will fail to meet their self-imposed March 31 deadline to come up with a broad political understanding about eliminating Iran’s pathway to a bomb, the State Department said today. “We’ve made enough progress in the last days to merit staying until Wednesday,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said in a statement to reporters in Lausanne, Switzerland, where the talks are being…

In this courtroom sketch, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, is depicted between defense attorneys Miriam Conrad, left, and Judy Clarke, right, during his federal death penalty trial, March 5, 2015, in Boston. Jane Flavell Collins/AP Photo In the Boston Marathon bombing trial the prosecution took 92 witnesses and more than three weeks to present their case, but today the defense for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested after just four witnesses and about six hours….

(Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 22 drug offenders serving time in federal prison, accelerating the administration’s efforts to reduce penalties for many of those convicted of such crimes. Obama’s decision, announced on Tuesday, more than doubles the number of commutations he has issued, and is the latest sign that the White House is taking aim at a drug war the president has characterized as counterproductive. Many…

The Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., on Monday. (Danny Johnston/AP) Amid intense criticism of Indiana’s religious liberties law, which has prompted lawmakers in that state to vow to fix the legislation, another state charged ahead with a similar measure. Arkansas lawmakers on Tuesday passed their own religious freedom bill, putting the state on the verge of formally adopting a law that could lead to another firestorm. On Tuesday afternoon, after some…