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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…

(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…

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…

(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…

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…

Immigration activists disillusioned with Obama, Democrats as amnesty afterglow fades

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…

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…