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 …

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.

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

Walker says he'd reject deal with Iran ‘on day one’  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said Wednesday that if he's elected president, on his first day in office he'll reject any deal the White House strikes with Iran over its nuclear program if it continues to allow the country to enrich uranium.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

How Super PACs Are Taking Over  —  A new breed of high-dollar outside groups is reshaping the 2016 presidential race  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says he no longer listens to classic rock, but he still found a way to channel the lyrics of John Lennon when he launched his presidential campaign.

Everything The White House Told You About Bowe Bergdahl Was Wrong  —  His release was supposed to be the political masterstroke in the last days of the war.  But the war is still going, and Bergdahl is going to court.  —  In the space of nine months, he went from being heralded at the White House to facing prison for life.

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.

U.S. forces begin airstrikes in Tikrit, where Iran-backed militias are in lead … BAGHDAD — U.S. warplanes began striking Islamic State forces in and around the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Wednesday, drawing the United States directly into a battle that has pitted the militants against Iraqi forces dominated by Iranian-backed militias.