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 …

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.

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.

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

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 …

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 …

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.

Missing Virginia child, Noah Thomas, found dead in septic system  —  PULASKI COUNTY, Va. — Noah Thomas, the five-year-old boy who disappeared Sunday from his home in Dublin, Virginia, was found dead Thursday afternoon.  —  “We are very saddened to announce that we have recovered the body …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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

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.

Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating  —  1Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.  —  2Earth & Space Research, Oregon, USA.  —  The floating ice shelves surrounding the Antarctic Ice Sheet restrain the grounded ice-sheet flow.

California loosens Jessica's Law rules on where sex offenders can live  —  California officials announced Thursday that the state would stop enforcing a key provision of a voter-approved law that prohibits all registered sex offenders from living near schools.

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.