Barbara Boland

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second left, and State Department Chief of Staff Jon Finer, left, meet with other members of the U.S. delegation at the garden of the Palais Coburg hotel where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held in Vienna, Austria, on Friday, July 10, 2015. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP)

Iran nuclear deal expected Sunday

Kelly Cohen, Barbara Boland · July 12, 2015 3:14 pm

Same-sex wedding cake topper figurines are seen at Cake and Art cake decorators June 10, 2008 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Defiant Sweet Cakes owners have until Monday to pay crushing $135k fine

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 10:58 pm

Afghan villagers gather near a house destroyed in an apparent NATO raid in Logar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, June, 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ihsanullah Majroh)

National Security

Airstrikes obliterate ISIS in Afghanistan

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 10:04 pm

Army Specialist Shenandoah Rogers, of the Arizona National Guard's 180th Field Artillery unit, works his computer's joy stick controlling a remote TV camera, as he monitors a suspected illegal alien crossing a fence line June 30, 2006 in Nogales, Arizona, on the southern border with Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. (Photo by Gary Williams/Getty Images)

National Security

New data breach: Army National Guard

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 7:44 pm

Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner, accompanied by her attorney is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the the agency's targeting of Tea Party groups, where she invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Midnight raids, secret subpoenas: IRS’ Lerner close friends with leader who targeted Scott Walker

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 6:41 pm

President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with Vietnamese Communist party secretary general Nguyen Phu Trong in the Oval Office of the White House, on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama: Federal gov’t will integrate races into wealthy communities

Barbara Boland · July 11, 2015 3:32 pm

Sydney Owen, 2 carries one of the chickens as he helps to round them up at Ravenseat, the farm of the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen on April 15, 2014 near Kirkby Stephen, England. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Reminder from feds: Don’t cuddle or kiss chickens

Barbara Boland · July 10, 2015 8:05 pm

Watch: Rebel star Kid Rock’s defiant response to Confederate flag protestors

Watch: Rebel star Kid Rock’s defiant response to Confederate flag protestors

Barbara Boland · July 10, 2015 3:42 pm

"As a nation, we have got to apologize for slavery" Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said during a recent Sirius XM interview. (AP Photo)

Sanders: ‘We have got to apologize for slavery’

Barbara Boland · July 10, 2015 3:11 pm

Megyn Kelly blasts Obama’s silence on San Fran shooting: ‘He picks and chooses the victims he wants to highlight’

Megyn Kelly blasts Obama’s silence on San Fran shooting: ‘He picks and chooses the victims he wants to highlight’

Barbara Boland · July 10, 2015 2:30 pm

Carter: ‘Innate racism’ still haunts America

Carter: ‘Innate racism’ still haunts America

Barbara Boland · July 10, 2015 12:44 pm

In this Oct. 24, 2013 photo, Mark Risinger, 16, checks his Facebook page on his computer as his mother, Amy Risinger, looks on at their home in Glenview, Ill. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Feds want their hands on users’ Facebook, Twitter activity

Barbara Boland · July 9, 2015 7:47 pm