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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…

By Afp Published: 15:37 EST, 31 March 2015 | Updated: 15:37 EST, 31 March 2015 The US abandoned late Tuesday a midnight deadline to agree the outlines of a nuclear deal with Iran but insisted that “enough progress” merited extending marathon talks into Wednesday. “We’ve made enough progress in the last days to merit staying until Wednesday. There are several difficult issues still remaining,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said….

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The U.S. and five other world powers moved Tuesday toward annoucing a preliminary agreement that would enable them to continue negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear program for the next three months, though with many key issues unresolved. In six days of intense high-level talks, the group has been able to avoid a breakdown that would have imperiled an 18-month effort to reach a deal curbing Iran’s nuclear activities. But negotiators…

(CNN)Gov. Mike Pence pledged Tuesday to “fix” Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law to clarify that it does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. But he insisted the problem isn’t the law itself but how it’s being perceived, saying a fix is needed only because of “frankly, the smear that’s been leveled against this law.” And he said the fix won’t involve statewide anti-discrimination protections for LGBT Hoosiers. The first-term…

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft took the stand at the Aaron Hernandez murder trial in Bristol Superior Court today, telling the jury that he met with the former Patriots tight end two days after Hernandez’s friend Odin Lloyd was murdered. Both the prosecution, led by William McCauley, and defense questioned Kraft as a witness, asking about the details of the June 19, 2013 meeting, and whether or not Kraft…

Immigration activists disillusioned with Obama, Democrats as amnesty afterglow fades

(CNN)Gov. Mike Pence pledged Tuesday to “fix” Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law to clarify that it does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. But he insisted the problem isn’t the law itself but how it’s being perceived, saying a fix is needed only because of “frankly, the smear that’s been leveled against this law.” And he said the fix won’t involve statewide anti-discrimination protections for LGBT Hoosiers. The first-term…

The U.S. and five other world powers moved Tuesday toward annoucing a preliminary agreement that would enable them to continue negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear program for the next three months, though with many key issues unresolved. In six days of intense high-level talks, the group has been able to avoid a breakdown that would have imperiled an 18-month effort to reach a deal curbing Iran’s nuclear activities. But negotiators…

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft took the stand at the Aaron Hernandez murder trial in Bristol Superior Court today, telling the jury that he met with the former Patriots tight end two days after Hernandez’s friend Odin Lloyd was murdered. Both the prosecution, led by William McCauley, and defense questioned Kraft as a witness, asking about the details of the June 19, 2013 meeting, and whether or not Kraft…

Immigration activists disillusioned with Obama, Democrats as amnesty afterglow fades

The U.S. and five other world powers moved Tuesday toward annoucing a preliminary agreement that would enable them to continue negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear program for the next three months, though with many key issues unresolved. In six days of intense high-level talks, the group has been able to avoid a breakdown that would have imperiled an 18-month effort to reach a deal curbing Iran’s nuclear activities. But negotiators…

(CNN)Gov. Mike Pence pledged Tuesday to “fix” Indiana’s controversial religious freedom law to clarify that it does not allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. But he insisted the problem isn’t the law itself but how it’s being perceived, saying a fix is needed only because of “frankly, the smear that’s been leveled against this law.” And he said the fix won’t involve statewide anti-discrimination protections for LGBT Hoosiers. The first-term…

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft took the stand at the Aaron Hernandez murder trial in Bristol Superior Court today, telling the jury that he met with the former Patriots tight end two days after Hernandez’s friend Odin Lloyd was murdered. Both the prosecution, led by William McCauley, and defense questioned Kraft as a witness, asking about the details of the June 19, 2013 meeting, and whether or not Kraft…

Immigration activists disillusioned with Obama, Democrats as amnesty afterglow fades

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, is depicted between defense attorneys Miriam Conrad, left, and Judy Clarke during his federal death penalty trial in Boston on March 5.(Photo: Jane Flavell Collins, AP) BOSTON — Defense attorneys for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev resumed efforts to distance him from the planning of the attacks as they began their first full day of defense testimony Tuesday in Tsarnaev’s trial. The 21-year-old is charged in…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland—With a key deadline just hours away, U.S. and European officials said nuclear negotiations were imperiled by deep uncertainty over whether Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would sign off on the necessary concessions for a deal. All parties to the talks have set March 31 as the date for concluding a framework agreement that would outline all the main elements of a deal constraining Iran’s nuclear program in…

Republican legislators in Indiana said Monday that they were working on adding language to the state’s controversial new religious freedom law that would make clear that the measure does not permit discrimination against gays and lesbians.  The effort is the latest attempt to quell a firestorm that has led two governors to ban publicly funded travel to the Hoosier State and threatens to overshadow this weekend’s NCAA men’s basketball Final…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland—With a key deadline just hours away, U.S. and European officials said nuclear negotiations were imperiled by deep uncertainty over whether Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would sign off on the necessary concessions for a deal. All parties to the talks have set March 31 as the date for concluding a framework agreement that would outline all the main elements of a deal constraining Iran’s nuclear program in…

Republican legislators in Indiana said Monday that they were working on adding language to the state’s controversial new religious freedom law that would make clear that the measure does not permit discrimination against gays and lesbians.  The effort is the latest attempt to quell a firestorm that has led two governors to ban publicly funded travel to the Hoosier State and threatens to overshadow this weekend’s NCAA men’s basketball Final…