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(CNN)Indiana is the new ground zero in the battle over the Republican Party’s future. The GOP’s years-long existential debate over how to expand the party’s reach is exploding in the Hoosier State after Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed a controversial religious freedom bill into law last week. The measure, which is being criticized for allowing companies to deny services to gay customers in the name of religious belief, is catching…

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(CNN)Indiana is the new ground zero in the battle over the Republican Party’s future. The GOP’s years-long existential debate over how to expand the party’s reach is exploding in the Hoosier State after Republican Gov. Mike Pence signed a controversial religious freedom bill into law last week. The measure, which is being criticized for allowing companies to deny services to gay customers in the name of religious belief, is catching…

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In September 2012, Benjamin Netanyahu stood before the United Nations General Assembly holding a cartoonish drawing of a makeshift bomb, which came to be known as the Wile E. Coyote poster. The gimmick grabbed front page headlines around the world, but as the New York Times reported the next day, Netanyahu’s “attention-grabbing performance seems to have created confusion in, of all places, Israel.” According to the report, the percentages on…

Harry Reid’s announcement that he will not stand for reelection to the Senate from Nevada in 2016 is a major loss for the climate movement — and yet another signal that the U.S. Senate is being transformed by today’s bifurcated, parliamentary politics into an institution almost unrecognizably different from its traditions. But while Reid may be the last Senate traditionalist to serve as Majority Leader, he was first and foremost…

FORT MEADE, Md. (WJZ) — One man is dead and another critically injured after cashing an SUV through the gates of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade. Guards opened fire on the two men, who investigators say were inside a stolen SUV. Meghan McCorkell has more. FBI officials say they do not believe this was an act of terrorism but a bizarre incident that led to a serious security…

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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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