Yahoo! News: Terrorism

World powers, Iran reach framework for nuke deal
Prosecutors: Lubitz probed suicide methods, cockpit security
Matt Bai: Marco Rubio wants his identity back
Indiana governor OKs changes to religious objections law
Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies
Arkansas, Indiana enact fixes to measures seen as targeting gays
Boston bombing prosecutors ask judge to explain conspiracy to jury
Two New York City women accused of planning 'terrorist attack'
Gunmen attack university in Kenya
The Menendez indictment: 'Girlfriend 2,' the doctor and the senator

World powers, Iran reach framework for nuke deal

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 10:02 AM PDT

Iran and six world powers have agreed on the outlines of an understanding to limit Iran's nuclear programs, officials told The Associated Press Thursday. Negotiations continued on a dispute over how much of it to make public.

Prosecutors: Lubitz probed suicide methods, cockpit security

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 01:41 PM PDT

BERLIN (AP) — The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before he flew the plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people, German prosecutors said Thursday.

Matt Bai: Marco Rubio wants his identity back

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"Someone stole my credit card," Marco Rubio said when I entered his office last week.

Indiana governor OKs changes to religious objections law

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:07 PM PDT

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has approved changes to new law that sparked boycotts of the state amid fears that it would allow discrimination against lesbians and gays.

Robert Schuller, Crystal Cathedral megachurch founder, dies

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 03:00 PM PDT

ARTESIA, Calif. (AP) — The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, a California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions of followers from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died. He was 88.

Arkansas, Indiana enact fixes to measures seen as targeting gays

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 04:32 PM PDT

By Steve Barnes LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Indiana and Arkansas revised on Thursday new religious freedom acts that had drawn criticism from rights groups and U.S. companies that assailed them as discriminatory against gays. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, signed his state's Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law minutes after it passed in the statehouse. Indiana Governor Mike Pence, also a Republican, signed a revised religious freedom law that amended one he signed last week. The original measure catapulted the state into a firestorm because it lacked specific provisions to prevent denial of services and other discrimination against gays.

Boston bombing prosecutors ask judge to explain conspiracy to jury

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 09:11 AM PDT

Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to instruct the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing trial that defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev need not have known all the details of the plot to be guilty.

Two New York City women accused of planning 'terrorist attack'

Posted: 02 Apr 2015 04:58 PM PDT

By Ellen Wulfhorst and Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two New York City women have been arrested and accused of planning to carry out a "terrorist attack" in the United States, according to a federal criminal complaint made public on Thursday. Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, plotted to hit police, government or military targets based on their "violent jihadist beliefs," according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. It said Velentzas and Siddiqui were conspiring "to prepare an explosive device to be detonated in a terrorist attack in the United States." The complaint said Velentzas had praised al Qaeda's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and said she and Siddiqui were "citizens of the Islamic State." The women, former roommates in the city borough of Queens, had researched how to build an explosive device and had read textbooks on electricity and watched online videos about soldering, it said.