BREAKING NEWS: Germanwings co-pilot DELIBERATELY crashed Flight 4U9525 into mountain to ‘destroy the plane’ after locking his captain out of cockpit, reveals French prosecutor  —  The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings Airbus A320 locked his captain out of the cockpit before deliberately crashing …

US Declassifies Document Revealing Israel's Nuclear Program  —  Obama revenge for Netanyahu's Congress talk?  1987 report on Israel's top secret nuclear program released in unprecedented move.  —  Dimona nuclear reactor circa 1960s  —  National Security Archive/Flash 90

Iran May Run Centrifuges at Fortified Site, AP Reports  —  The United States is considering letting Tehran run hundreds of centrifuges at a once-secret, fortified underground bunker in exchange for limits on centrifuge work and research and development at other sites, officials have told The Associated Press.

What we get wrong about Yemen  —  Foreign intervention in a local fight would be the worst course anyone could take.  —  Lead image by AP Photo.  —  With reports Wednesday that besieged President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi might have fled his palace, Yemen appears closer to collapsing into a total failed state.

Gov. Mike Pence signs ‘religious freedom’ bill in private  —  Gov. Mike Pence signed a controversial “religious freedom” bill on Thursday morning during a private ceremony in his Statehouse office.  —  Pence almost immediately began defending the law, saying at a news conference that the law …

Netanyahu Told to Mend Ties With Washington  —  JERUSALEM — Israel's president on Wednesday officially handed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the task of forming a new government, saying its first priority was to repair relations with the United States and indirectly chiding Mr. Netanyahu …

Rand Paul Proposes Boosting Defense Spending  —  His amendment would add $76.5 billion to the defense budget  —  Just weeks before announcing his 2016 presidential bid, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is completing an about-face on a longstanding pledge to curb the growth in defense spending.

To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran  —  FOR years, experts worried that the Middle East would face an uncontrollable nuclear-arms race if Iran ever acquired weapons capability.  Given the region's political, religious and ethnic conflicts, the logic is straightforward.

DEA agents had ‘sex parties’ with prostitutes, watchdog says  —  Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration reportedly had “sex parties” with prostitutes hired by drug cartels in Colombia, according to a new inspector general report released by the Justice Department on Thursday.

Rahm Emanuel floats naming Chicago airport after Barack Obama  —  Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel, currently fighting for his political life in a heated run-off campaign, floated the idea Wednesday of naming an airport after the Windy City's favorite son: President Barack Obama.

Gregg Jarrett: ‘I Might Not Have Survived’ Without Roger Ailes  —  Meeting a reporter for coffee one cold morning this week, Gregg Jarrett looked great-healthy and full of life.  Wearing a crisp button-down shirt and a pale blue sweater, the longtime Fox News anchor had the familiar look …

House Dem: Global Warming Could Force Women to Trade Sex for Food  —  A senior House Democrat has once again issued an apocalyptic warning that climate change will hit women harder than men, and that it could drive millions of poor women to engage in “transactional sex” in order to provide food and water for their families.

Did you know Obama just took new executive action on immigration?  —  This week President Obama took unilateral executive action — again — to change the nation's immigration laws.  Almost no one noticed.  —  Obama intends to make it easier to bring more foreign guest workers to the United States …

Your subway's late because of a surge in unruly passengers  —  The city's subways are constantly being disrupted — by jerks!  —  An epidemic of bad behavior by out-of-control passengers has caused the number of delays in the city subway system to skyrocket, according to data obtained by The Post.