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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 …
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Andreas Lubitz: Friends in the co-pilot's hometown express shock and surprise — Marseille prosecutor says co-pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed plane ‘deliberately’ - both he and pilot Patrick Sonderheimer trained at Lufthansa Flight Training School in Bremen — Andreas Lubitz was the boy …
Stephanie Kirchner / Washington Post:
French prosecutor: Co-pilot of doomed flight sought to ‘destroy the plane’
French prosecutor: Co-pilot of doomed flight sought to ‘destroy the plane’
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IN.gov:
Governor Pence Issues Statement Regarding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act — Start Date: — Start Time: — End Date: — Entry Description — Indianapolis - Governor Mike Pence today issued the following statement after signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (SEA 101) in a private ceremony.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Indiana's Pence to sign bill allowing businesses to reject gay customers — Bill allows businesses to reject gay customers 02:10 — Washington (CNN)Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is set to sign into law a measure that allows businesses to turn away gay and lesbian customers in the name of “religious freedom.”
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Arutz Sheva:
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
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Jordan Schachtel / Reuters:
Administration Declassifies Top-Secret Doc That Reveals Israel's Nuclear Secrets — The Pentagon has declassified a document that was once labeled “top-secret,” which goes into sophisticated detail about Israel's nuclear weapons program. The document was released quietly just prior …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Dem Senator Devised A Fantastic Response To Tom Cotton's Iran Letter — Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) would like to prevent Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) from sending any more letters to Iranian leaders about the nuclear deal, prompting her to file an amendment to block just that.
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The Huffington Post:
Senate Democrat Trolls Tom Cotton So Hard — WASHINGTON — Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) delivered a pitch-perfect trolling lesson to the Senate on Wednesday, filing an amendment calling to defund “the purchase of stationary or electronic devices for the purpose of members of Congress …
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Scott Walker Shifts Stance on Immigration at Private Dinner — Likely GOP presidential candidate says he backs allowing undocumented immigrants becoming eligible for citizenship — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a private dinner of New Hampshire Republicans this month that he backed …
Alex Rogers / TIME:
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.
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Kathleen Miller / Bloomberg Business:
Potential 2016 Candidates Paul, Rubio Push Senate Colleagues to Boost Defense Spending
Potential 2016 Candidates Paul, Rubio Push Senate Colleagues to Boost Defense Spending
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Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Changes His Tune On Defense Spending
Rand Paul Changes His Tune On Defense Spending
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The Hill:
House passes Boehner-Pelosi Medicare deal in resounding vote — The House on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to repeal automatic cuts to doctors under Medicare, endorsing a rare bipartisan deal that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) negotiated with Democrats. — The bill, which passed by a vote of 392-37 …
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Feds: National Guardsman plotted attack for ISIS — Shares - — A National Guardsman arrested for supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, had allegedly planned an attack on a military post in Illinois, the Justice Department said Thursday.
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New York Post:
Building explodes in NYC's East Village — As many as 30 people were hurt when an explosion caused a partial building collapse and ignited a massive fire in the East Village on Thursday afternoon, law-enforcement sources told The Post. — Flames were engulfing two buildings at the scene …
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Associated Press:
AP EXCLUSIVE: IRAN MAY RUN CENTRIFUGES AT FORTIFIED SITE — LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — 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 …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Walker says he'd reject deal with Iran ‘on day one’
Walker says he'd reject deal with Iran ‘on day one’
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
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.
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John R. Bolton / New York Times:
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.
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
Scott Walker's interview debacle: How the movie “Trading Places” explains the Iran/Israel conflict! — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is widely viewed as botching his early opportunity as nominal frontrunner for the 2016 GOP nomination. Even on the right, some former admirers …
The Huffington Post:
Kentucky's New Heroin Law Marks A ‘Culture Shift’ — WASHINGTON — On Tuesday night, Kentucky lawmakers passed wide-ranging legislation to combat the state's heroin epidemic. The bipartisan measure represents a significant policy shift away from more punitive measures toward a focus on treating addicts, not jailing them.
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
Congressman Resigning Over Scandal Drops Abraham Lincoln Reference In Farewell Speech — The perfect time for a Lincoln reference: your farewell speech after resigning from Congress amid a scandal over reimbursement of miles not traveled on a Chevy Tahoe. — vine.co
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Scott Wise / WTVR-TV:
Missing Virginia child, Noah Thomas, found dead in septic system, law enforcement sources say — PULASKI COUNTY, Va. — Noah Thomas, the five-year-old boy who disappeared Sunday from his home in Dublin, Virginia, was found dead Thursday, three law enforcement sources confirmed to WDBJ7 in Roanoke.
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