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• Obama vetoes Republican bid to block union election rules
• Co-pilot told flight school of depressive episode in 2009
• New Jersey school evacuated after reports of armed intruder
• Armed man caught after taking hostages at Pennsylvania firehouse
• Police: Prisoner who stole gun, fled hospital found in DC
• Indiana governor wants changes to religious-objections law
• Live: Special report on Indiana religious freedom law
• Florida jogger wearing headphones killed by train
• U.S. top court says private medical providers can't sue states over Medicaid
• Reports: Banned group takes prosecutor hostage in Turkey
• Defense to intensify in trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber
• On a cold Boston morning, remembering Teddy Kennedy
• Mother charged with murdering toddler son in NYC bathroom
• Suspect in massive Los Angeles arson fire seen in video: L.A. Times
• Parents of dead student sue Clemson University, fraternity
• Differences persist on deadline day for Iran nuke talks
• Detroit commission OKs raises for city council, clerk: newspaper
• Mother of Colorado cinema gunman prays son spared death penalty: newspaper
• Theater gunman not a ‘monster,’ Arlene Holmes writes in new book
• Indiana to clarify 'religious freedom' law, Georgia, N.C. bills stall
• Indiana lawmakers try to quiet firestorm surrounding new law
• Exclusive: Pentagon chief sends military wish lists to Congress with reservations

Obama vetoes Republican bid to block union election rules Posted: 31 Mar 2015 10:58 AM PDT U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday vetoed a measure by Republicans in Congress that would have blocked a government labor agency's rules designed to speed up the time it takes to unionize workers. The rules would shorten the period between a union filing a petition to represent workers and an election, from the current median of 38 days to as little as 14 days. Employers would be required to share workers' names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses with unions. The National Labor Relations Board adopted the rules last year and they are set to take effect April 14.

Co-pilot told flight school of depressive episode in 2009 Posted: 31 Mar 2015 10:43 AM PDT Lufthansa says the note was found in emails that Andreas Lubitz sent.

New Jersey school evacuated after reports of armed intruder Posted: 31 Mar 2015 10:10 AM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey elementary school was evacuated on Tuesday after reports of an armed intruder on the grounds, law enforcement officials said. Police and SWAT teams converged on Village Elementary School in Holmdel Township, about 40 miles (64 km) south of New York City, just after noon local time and searched for a gunman, said Charles Webster, a spokesman with the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. No shots were reported fired and no one was injured, Webster said. (Reporting by Laila Kearney; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Chizu Nomiyama)

Armed man caught after taking hostages at Pennsylvania firehouse Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:54 AM PDT (Reuters) - An armed suspect believed to be a former firefighter was apprehended on Tuesday after taking four firefighters hostage inside a suburban Philadelphia firehouse, officials said. Reports of an armed suspect at the LaMott Fire Company in Cheltenham Township, about 13 miles north of Philadelphia, came in to authorities at about 10:40 a.m., said John Corcoran, spokesman for the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety. About an hour later, a suspect was taken into custody, officials said. No one was injured in the incident. ...

Police: Prisoner who stole gun, fled hospital found in DC Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:38 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — Police say a prisoner who escaped custody at a northern Virginia hospital with a guard's gun has been captured in Washington.

Indiana governor wants changes to religious-objections law Posted: 31 Mar 2015 09:04 AM PDT Mike Pence said Tuesday that he wants legislation on his desk by the end of the week to clarify that a new religious-freedom law does not allow discrimination.

Live: Special report on Indiana religious freedom law Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:33 AM PDT Yahoo's Bianna Golodryga and Olivier Knox analyze Gov. Pence's remarks about the legislation.

Florida jogger wearing headphones killed by train Posted: 31 Mar 2015 08:02 AM PDT By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida jogger wearing headphones was struck and killed by an Amtrak train, apparently unable to hear the conductor sounding the horn, authorities said on Tuesday. Edwardo Salazar, 26, of Frostproof in central Florida, died on Monday afternoon while jogging on the tips of the wood crossbeams outside the track's metal rails, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reported. Salazar's headphones were plugged into his iPod, according to the report. "The headphones likely led to him not hearing the train," said sheriff spokeswoman Carrie Horstman, adding Salazar might not have known that a train's girth is wider than the metal rails.

U.S. top court says private medical providers can't sue states over Medicaid Posted: 31 Mar 2015 07:30 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that private medical providers cannot sue a state in order to raise Medicaid reimbursement rates to deal with rising medical costs. The justices, on a 5-4 vote, ruled in favor of the state of Idaho, which says that medical providers have no legal recourse to sue. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)

Reports: Banned group takes prosecutor hostage in Turkey Posted: 31 Mar 2015 07:13 AM PDT ISTANBUL (AP) — Members of a banned leftist group took a chief prosecutor hostage in his office Tuesday inside a court house in Istanbul, Turkish news agencies said. Police said negotiators were speaking to two militants in attempts to end the standoff.

Defense to intensify in trial of accused Boston Marathon bomber Posted: 31 Mar 2015 04:31 AM PDT Defense of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is expected to intensify on Tuesday with his lawyers' first full day of calling witnesses. They have contended that Tsarnaev's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was the driving force behind the bombing and that Dzhokhar played a secondary role in it and in the fatal shooting of a police officer three days later. Their argument is intended to reduce Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's relative culpability in the jury's eyes and persuade them to sentence him to life in prison. On Monday, prosecutors wrapped up their case against Tsarnaev with testimony from the medical examiners who autopsied 23-year-old Chinese exchange student Lingzi Lu and 8-year-old Martin Richard.

On a cold Boston morning, remembering Teddy Kennedy Posted: 31 Mar 2015 03:42 AM PDT A host of political luminaries attended the dedication Monday of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute on Columbia Point, right next to the presidential library of Teddy's older brother, President John F. Kennedy.

Mother charged with murdering toddler son in NYC bathroom Posted: 31 Mar 2015 02:39 AM PDT (Reuters) - A mother was charged with murder after she locked herself in the bathroom of a New York City restaurant on Monday with her one-year-old son, who was later pronounced dead, police said. Latisha Fisher, 35, entered the bathroom with her child, Gavriel Ortiz-Fisher, at 5 Boro Burger in Manhattan, the New York Police Department said. After the woman spent a "large quantity of time" locked inside, workers concerned over her well-being unlocked the door key and found her son unresponsive and foaming at the mouth, NYPD Sergeant Brendan Ryan said.

Suspect in massive Los Angeles arson fire seen in video: L.A. Times Posted: 31 Mar 2015 02:07 AM PDT (Reuters) - A suspect who sparked a massive arson fire last year that gutted a multi-story apartment complex under construction in Los Angeles was captured on surveillance tape reviewed by authorities, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. The video showed the suspect parking a car on the 110 Freeway before walking into the building with "cans of fuel," the paper said, based on a recording of a community meeting last week addressed by Los Angeles Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Ruda. Fire department representatives could not be immediately reached for comment.

Parents of dead student sue Clemson University, fraternity Posted: 31 Mar 2015 12:30 AM PDT By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The parents of a 19-year-old Clemson University student who died last year after falling from a highway bridge during a pre-dawn fraternity run sued the university, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and three of its members for $50 million on Monday. Tucker Hipps' body was found by police last September beneath a highway bridge over a lake near the Clemson, South Carolina campus when he didn't return from the run with other fraternity pledges. The two civil suits, which seek $25 million each, allege that Hipps died as a result of a confrontation with a fraternity member over breakfast food he was told to bring that morning. Hipps then went over the railing of the bridge into shallow water in Lake Hartwell head first, the lawsuits said, adding that a fraternity member shone a flashlight into the dark water below but took no further action to locate the student.

Differences persist on deadline day for Iran nuke talks Posted: 31 Mar 2015 12:15 AM PDT Diplomats scrambled to reach consensus just hours ahead of a self-imposed deadline.

Detroit commission OKs raises for city council, clerk: newspaper Posted: 30 Mar 2015 10:21 PM PDT Just months after Detroit officially exited the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a panel recommended on Monday 2.5 percent raises for city council members and the city clerk starting next fiscal year, the Detroit Free Press said. The Detroit Elected Officials Compensation Commission, which determines whether elected officials can receive raises, voted unanimously on Monday night to support the pay hikes, the newspaper said. The move would bring the salary for the clerk and council members to $78,761 from $76,840 and the council president's to $82,776 from $80,757, the Free Press said. The compensation commission's recommendation will go into effect unless it is rejected by the City Council by a two-thirds vote, according to the Free Press.

Mother of Colorado cinema gunman prays son spared death penalty: newspaper Posted: 30 Mar 2015 09:02 PM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The mother of Colorado cinema gunman James Holmes says in a new book that she prays prosecutors "stop this quest for death" and allow her son to plead guilty and avoid possible execution, a California newspaper reported on Monday. Details of Arlene Holmes' book were disclosed in an interview that she and her husband, Bob, granted to the Del Mar Times, in which the couple maintained that their son is mentally ill and his life should be spared. James Holmes, 27, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder stemming from a shooting rampage at a cinema in suburban Denver in July 2012. Twelve moviegoers were killed and 70 others wounded when Holmes opened fire inside the theater during a midnight viewing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises." Prosecutors said they will seek the death penalty for the southern California native if he is convicted.

Theater gunman not a ‘monster,’ Arlene Holmes writes in new book Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:46 PM PDT The mother of accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes says in a new book that she prays for her son's victims daily, even calling out the deceased by name. "The first time that I prayed for them by name and by wound, I was shaking, overcome," Arlene Holmes writes.

Indiana to clarify 'religious freedom' law, Georgia, N.C. bills stall Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:16 PM PDT Indiana Republicans pledged on Monday to clarify a new "religious freedom" law, while similar proposals stalled in Georgia and North Carolina after businesses and activists said such measures could be used to discriminate against gays. Arkansas lawmakers, however, signaled they would move forward with their own bill, even after Indiana was rebuked by companies and executives including Wal-Mart Stores Inc , Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook, and Eli Lilly and Co . Indiana's law, signed by Governor Mike Pence last week, was perceived as going further than those passed in 19 other states, giving businesses a right to refuse services on religious grounds.

Indiana lawmakers try to quiet firestorm surrounding new law Posted: 30 Mar 2015 04:40 PM PDT INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence called off public appearances Monday and sports officials planned an "Indy Welcomes All" campaign ahead of this weekend's NCAA Final Four in Indianapolis as lawmakers scrambled to quiet the firestorm over a new law that has much of the country portraying Indiana as a state of intolerance.

Exclusive: Pentagon chief sends military wish lists to Congress with reservations Posted: 30 Mar 2015 03:37 PM PDT By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Monday sent the military's annual "wish lists" to U.S. lawmakers, including 12 Boeing Co F/A-18 fighter jets and 14 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets, but said he would not back any of the requests unless Congress passed a larger overall defense budget. Carter told lawmakers he was sending the lists of "unfunded priorities" to Congress as required under a defense policy law of fiscal 2013, but registered his concerns about any moves by Congress to restructure the Pentagon's budget request. The biggest items on the annual lists this year included a dozen Boeing fighter jets requested by the Navy to cover projected shortfall in strike fighters in coming years at a projected cost of $1.15 billion. If approved by Congress, the orders could help Boeing extend production at its St. Louis manufacturing plant, which is currently slated to end in 2017.

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• U.S. Justice Dept. sues Oklahoma university over treatment of transgender employee
• Accused murderer of missing New York boy will not testify: defense
• NSA shooting: 1 dead after men dressed as women tried to crash gate
• Men disguised as women shot outside NSA gate after ramming checkpoint
• One dead, one hurt as shots fired at U.S. spy agency: reports
• Trevor Noah to replace Jon Stewart as 'Daily Show' host
• 2 being treated for injuries at gate of NSA headquarters at Fort Meade
• Supreme Court preserves New York ban on worship services in schools
• U.S. Supreme Court rejects Obamacare 'death panel' challenge
• Scott Walker’s gloomy pitch for the presidency
• Iran nuclear talks at crunch time
• Former Israeli premier Olmert found guilty in bribery case
• Focus shifts to cause of NYC explosion after 2 bodies found
• Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin: Reuters/Ipsos poll
• Waving fronds around the world, Christians mark Palm Sunday
• New York state lawmakers reach budget deal
• Firefighters gain on Montana fire that forced evacuation of ski area
• Two missing men likely found amid NYC gas explosion rubble: fire official
• Boston police officer shot in the face improving after surgery
• DNA from 78 Germanwings crash victims found

U.S. Justice Dept. sues Oklahoma university over treatment of transgender employee Posted: 30 Mar 2015 12:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Monday it had filed a lawsuit against Southeastern Oklahoma State University over alleged discrimination against a transgender employee. The DOJ said it also sued the Regional University System of Oklahoma. The department said the woman, Rachel Tudor, was denied a promotion because of her gender identity and was retaliated against after she complained. (Reporting by Emily Stephenson; Editing by Eric Beech)

Accused murderer of missing New York boy will not testify: defense Posted: 30 Mar 2015 11:42 AM PDT By Natasja Sheriff NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former grocery store worker accused of murdering a New York boy missing for decades will not testify in his own defense, his attorney said on Monday. Pedro Hernandez, 54, is on trial for kidnapping and murder in a case that hinges on his confession to police in 2012 that he choked 6-year-old Etan Patz, stuffed him in a box and left him in a New York alley. Patz vanished as he walked alone for the first time to a school bus stop in his Manhattan neighborhood on May 25, 1979. His disappearance sparked a national movement to find missing children, with his picture one of the first to appear on milk cartons.

NSA shooting: 1 dead after men dressed as women tried to crash gate Posted: 30 Mar 2015 09:52 AM PDT A second person is "severely injured" after a gunfight erupted at Fort Meade, officials say.

Men disguised as women shot outside NSA gate after ramming checkpoint Posted: 30 Mar 2015 08:46 AM PDT One man is dead and another severely injured after a shootout at Fort Meade, Maryland.

One dead, one hurt as shots fired at U.S. spy agency: reports Posted: 30 Mar 2015 08:30 AM PDT Guards shot one man dead and seriously wounded a second when the men tried to ram a vehicle into the entrance gate at the Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters of the National Security Agency, on Monday, CNN reported. An NSA spokeswoman had no immediate comment. Spokesmen for Fort Meade and Anne Arundel County Police referred questions to the spy agency. The Washington Post said police at Fort Meade, a U.S. Army base in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, confirmed that the incident happened on the NSA side of the installation but gave no other details.

Trevor Noah to replace Jon Stewart as 'Daily Show' host Posted: 30 Mar 2015 08:13 AM PDT It's official: Comedy Central has announced that Trevor Noah will succeed Jon Stewart as the next host of "The Daily Show."

2 being treated for injuries at gate of NSA headquarters at Fort Meade Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:57 AM PDT Police are investigating an incident at one of the gates of the sprawling Army installation.

Supreme Court preserves New York ban on worship services in schools Posted: 30 Mar 2015 07:24 AM PDT By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact New York City's ban on religious worship services inside school buildings after hours. In a brief order, the court said it would not hear an appeal filed by the Bronx Household of Faith, a conservative Congregational church. The court's action leaves intact an April 2014 ruling by the New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld the ban. The appeals court had said the New York City Board of Education's regulation, created so the city would not be perceived as endorsing religious activity in a public forum, "was consistent with its constitutional duties." That court said the ban was a reasonable way to abide by the so-called Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which provides for separation of church and state.

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Obamacare 'death panel' challenge Posted: 30 Mar 2015 06:52 AM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a new challenge to the Obamacare law that took aim at a bureaucratic board labeled by some Republicans as a "death panel" because it was designed to cut Medicare costs. The high court left intact a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that threw out the lawsuit. (Reporting by Lawrence Hurley; Editing by Will Dunham)

Scott Walker’s gloomy pitch for the presidency Posted: 30 Mar 2015 05:31 AM PDT Scott Walker is worried. He's worried about America. He's worried about his kids and his grandchildren, and everyone else's. He's worried about Islamic radicalism. He's worried about too many people being on food stamps.

Iran nuclear talks at crunch time Posted: 30 Mar 2015 02:49 AM PDT Differences still remain less than two days before a deadline for the outline of an agreement.

Former Israeli premier Olmert found guilty in bribery case Posted: 30 Mar 2015 12:22 AM PDT JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was found guilty Monday of accepting bribes in a retrial of corruption charges, the latest chapter in the downfall of a man who only years earlier hoped to lead the country to a historic peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Focus shifts to cause of NYC explosion after 2 bodies found Posted: 29 Mar 2015 11:16 PM PDT Officials consider the possibility that someone may have improperly tapped a gas line serving one of the buildings.

Republicans see Obama as more imminent threat than Putin: Reuters/Ipsos poll Posted: 29 Mar 2015 10:45 PM PDT By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third of Republicans believe President Barack Obama poses an imminent threat to the United States, outranking concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. A Reuters/Ipsos online poll this month asked 2,809 Americans to rate how much of a threat a list of countries, organizations and individuals posed to the United States on a scale of 1 to 5, with one being no threat and 5 being an imminent threat. The poll showed 34 percent of Republicans ranked Obama as an imminent threat, ahead of Putin (25 percent), who has been accused of aggression in the Ukraine, and Assad (23 percent).

Waving fronds around the world, Christians mark Palm Sunday Posted: 29 Mar 2015 09:09 PM PDT Christians around the world are marking Palm Sunday by waving fronds, attending church services and visiting sites in the Holy Land at the start of the Holy Week that ends with Easter.

New York state lawmakers reach budget deal Posted: 29 Mar 2015 08:54 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state lawmakers agreed a budget plan late on Sunday night that includes much-debated ethics and education reforms, state governor Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders said in statement. Cuomo proposed a $142 billion plan in January that keeps spending growth below 2 percent and promises money for big-ticket infrastructure projects while cutting property taxes. (Reporting by Edward Krudy; Editing by Paul Tait)

Firefighters gain on Montana fire that forced evacuation of ski area Posted: 29 Mar 2015 07:51 PM PDT Firefighters in Montana on Sunday were working to contain a wildfire that forced the evacuation of hundreds from a ski area as flames driven by high winds threatened to engulf the only road to and from the resort, officials said. The Red Lodge Mountain Ski Area in the Custer Gallatin National Forest in south central Montana resumed operations on Sunday after skiers were told to leave the day before as a safety precaution. No other structures were under evacuation orders as moderating weather conditions were expected to give fire crews the upper hand for the first time in two days, said fire information officer Jeff Gildehaus. The blaze was one of several that broke out on Saturday in southern Montana and northern Wyoming, where unseasonably warm temperatures and winds gusting up to 60 miles an hour gave rise to extreme fire behavior usually seen in late fall in the Northern Rocky Mountain states, Gildehaus said.

Two missing men likely found amid NYC gas explosion rubble: fire official Posted: 29 Mar 2015 06:33 PM PDT By Sebastien Malo and Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two bodies found on Sunday at the site of a gas explosion that destroyed three New York City apartment buildings last week, injuring 22 people, were believed to be those of two unaccounted for men, the city's top fire official said. The bodies were found about 20 feet apart of one of the buildings reduced to rubble by the blast and fire in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood on Thursday, Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro told reporters. While Nigro said a medical examiner had not officially determined that the remains belonged to the two people who remain unaccounted for, local broadcaster NY1 News said one of the missing men, 23-year-old Nicholas Figueroa, had been identified by his family as one of the bodies found on Sunday. Also missing was Moises Lucon.

Boston police officer shot in the face improving after surgery Posted: 29 Mar 2015 04:37 PM PDT (Reuters) - A Boston police officer who was shot in the face by a man during a traffic stop was improving after hours of surgery during which a bullet was removed from his neck, officials said on Sunday. Six-year department veteran John Moynihan was shot just below the eye on Friday night by a 41-year-old man identified as Angelo West. Fellow officers returned fire and West, who had a criminal record including prior gun charges, died of wounds at the scene. As the driver got out of the car, without warning he shot Moynihan, a 34-year-old former U.S. Army Ranger, in the face, police said. ...

DNA from 78 Germanwings crash victims found Posted: 29 Mar 2015 04:21 PM PDT Forensic teams have isolated 78 distinct DNA strands from body parts at the Germanwings crash site in the French Alps, while investigators continued their grim task in the arduous mountain terrain. As well as trying to identify and return bodies to their families, search teams were also hunting for a second "black box" that has yet to be found six days into the search. "We haven't found a single body intact," said Patrick Touron, deputy director of the police's criminal research institute. So far, forensic teams have isolated 78 DNA strands from recovered body parts, said prosecutor Brice Robin, one of the lead investigators.

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