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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…

Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to reporters at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, March 10, 2015.(Photo: Seth Wenig, AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton e-mailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while secretary of state, despite her explanation she exclusively used a personal e-mail address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single device, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. The dispute…

SANAA, Yemen — Artillery fire in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, the last stronghold of the embattled Yemeni government, killed 26 people overnight Tuesday, news reports said. Iran-allied Houthi rebels along with allied army units are pressing in on the outskirts of the city despite six days of Saudi-led airstrikes meant to halt their advance. A Health Ministry official said 26 people were killed in that push, the Reuters…

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ADEN (Reuters) – An air strike killed at least 40 people at a camp for displaced people in north Yemen on Monday, humanitarian workers said, in an attack which apparently targeted nearby Houthi fighters who are battling President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi. Yemen’s state news agency Saba, which is under the control of the Houthis, said the camp at Haradh was hit by Saudi planes. It said the dead included women…

Under fire by critics of Indiana’s new Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and companies threatening to boycott the state, Governor Mike Pence published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Monday night defending the law, which he wrote “has been grossly misconstrued as a ‘license to discriminate.”‘ The ACLU, Apple CEO Tim Cook and other critics believe the Indiana RFRA could be used as a rationale to withhold services from…

A Singaporean teenager arrested for posting an expletive-laden YouTube video attacking the country’s late founding leader Lee Kuan Yew and Christianity was charged Tuesday with jailable offences including obscenity and hurting religious feelings. Amos Yee, a slight student with a thick mop of hair, smiled and fidgeted as charges were read to him in a district court. He was released on Sg$20,000 ($14,500) bail. Yee, who…

About 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Vasquez allegedly ran across the eastbound lanes of a freeway exit near downtown LA before a car struck and killed him. Martina Reyes, the driver of the vehicle, was not arrested. She was uninjured. Vasquez was last seen by friends at the University of Southern California’s Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity around 1:30 a.m. According to the Los Angeles Times, he reportedly told a friend he wanted…

Two former federal agents who worked on the 2013 bust of underground drug market Silk Road were charged with multiple felonies this week alleging that the pair used the operation for their own gain, blackmailing defendants and stealing more than $1.5 million worth of bitcoin under the cover of darknet. The 2013 arrest and subsequent prosecution of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was considered a win for the government, which…

(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…

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…

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…

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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,…

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…

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…