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Centrifuges. Sanctions. Nuclear research. Sticking points remain on some of the most basic issues as negotiations between world powers and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program hit crunch time. Tuesday is the deadline for the two sides to finalize a framework agreement. That deal, if it can be reached, is supposed to be the basis for a final accord by the end of June detailing steps for Iran to scale back…

In this March 5 courtroom sketch, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, center, is depicted between defense attorneys Miriam Conrad, left, and Judy Clarke, during his federal death penalty trial in Boston.(Photo: Jane Flavell Collins, AP) BOSTON — Prosecutors rested their case Monday in the Boston Marathon bombing trial after a morning full of grisly testimony from physicians who conducted autopsies on the youngest victims. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, is charged in the April 15,…

Following similar bans by San Francisco and Seattle More What You Need to Know About Indiana’s Controversial Religious Objections Law Democrats Caught Up in Controversial Indiana Religious-Freedom Law Indiana Governor Says Religious Objections Law Is ‘Not About Discrimination’ Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said Monday he intends to sign an executive order that will ban state-funded travel to Indiana as a protest to that state’s new religious objections law, which critics…

Two former federal agents have been charged with stealing digital currency during their investigation into an online black market that allowed users to buy and sell drugs and other illegal items. Carl M. Force, 46, of Baltimore, was a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and Shaun W. Bridges, 32, of Laurel, Maryland, was a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service on a task force that investigated the…

Patience Alexander, 5 (center), daughter of Angie Alexander (left), were recruited by Freedom Indiana to deliver about 10,000 letters from opponents of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to the office of Indiana House of Representatives Speaker Brian Bosma at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on March 23, 2015. (AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Charlie Nye) Indiana became ground zero for the fight over LGBT rights last week when it passed its Religious Freedom Restoration…

President Barack Obama will visit Kenya in July for a meeting on global business development, the White House announced Monday. The president, whose father was from Kenya, will visit the country as part of the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. The conference of business leaders, government officials and entrepreneurs has been taking place annually since 2009. This will be his fourth trip to sub-Saharan Africa during his presidency. – Carrie…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Police have responded to an incident at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade in Maryland, around 20 miles from Washington, local media reported on Monday. Authorities said the driver of a vehicle tried to ram the entrance gate at the Fort Meade U.S. Army base, the FOX News affiliate in Washington said, adding that the incident led to shots being fired. The local NBC News affiliate…

Comedy Central Trevor Noah The show hires from inside–but just barely–signaling a new, international outlook on the fake news. A big question hanging over the transition at The Daily Show when Jon Stewart announced he would leave the show was whether the producers would hire from the outside (as when Stewart himself took over from Craig Kilborn) or the inside (as when Stephen Colbert and Larry Wilmore respectively took the…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — With just two days remaining before a deadline, Iran and diplomats from six countries trying to negotiate a preliminary nuclear deal met Monday in a final-hour attempt to resolve differences on uranium stockpiles, sanctions and future research into nuclear technology. Talks were scheduled throughout the day between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, and foreign ministers…

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The personal details of world leaders travelling to Australia for the G20 summit were mistakenly emailed to a member of the Asian Cup football local organising committee, a report said Monday. Australia’s immigration department confirmed there had been a data breach, but gave no details and did not say whether the world leaders had been informed. “The breach was immediately referred to the Office of the…

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Posted March 30, 2015 20:13:01 Photo: Two magnitude-six earthquakes strike off the coast of Samoa, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. (Supplied: Geoscience Australia) Two magnitude-6 earthquakes have struck off Samoa in the Pacific Ocean, the US Geological Survey (USGS) says. The first quake was measured at magnitude-6.3, the second at 6.8, the monitor said. The epicentre of the first was measured 124 kilometres west-south-west of the…

Disaster killed 150 people including co-pilot Andreas Lubitz who ‘deliberately crashed plane into the mountain’ Pastor Michael Dietrich, from the Lutheran church in Lubitz’s hometown Montabaur, speaks out after crash Two wardens at another local service ask God: ‘Have you forgotten the people who were sitting on the plane?’ Pope Francis prays for victims – citing in particular the 16 German students – at end of Palm Sunday Mass By…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — ­Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program are focused on the pace at which sanctions and restrictions would be eased, diplomats said Sunday, as Israel’s prime minister predicted that the emerging agreement would help Tehran “conquer” the Middle East. With a deadline of Tuesday night closing in, Secretary of State John F. Kerry held a string of back-to-back meetings with Iranian negotiators and with the foreign ministers of France,…

A powerful earthquake rattled the South Pacific nation of Papua New Guinea on Monday, generating a small tsunami and frightening locals near the epicenter, but prompting no reports of damage or injuries. A tsunami of half a meter (1.5 feet) was measured in the harbor of Rabaul, a town near the epicenter of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake, said Martin Mose, acting director for Papua New Guinea’s National Disaster Center. The quake…

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) – An Air Canada plane that suffered heavy damage in an accident in the east coast city of Halifax on Sunday landed short of the runway and hit an antenna array, losing its landing gear, safety officials said. No one was killed in the accident that sent more than 20 passengers and crew to hospital. All but one of those treated had been released by later…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a U.S. television interview that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has seized swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, has been gaining recruits since the start of U.S.-led air strikes against the militant group. Asked how much benefit he was getting from the strikes in Syria that began last September, Assad told CBS’s 60 Minutes: “Sometimes you could have…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two bodies were found on Sunday at the site of a gas explosion that destroyed three New York City apartment buildings last week, injuring 22 people, and officials were working to determine if they were those of two men unaccounted for, police said. The bodies, whose genders were not immediately given, were recovered in an area reduced to rubble by the blast and fire in Manhattan’s…