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The international community needs to insist on a "better deal" with Iran over its nuclear program, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP Photo)

National Security

Benjamin Netanyahu: World powers must push for a ‘better deal’ with Iran

Kelly Cohen · April 1, 2015 11:04 am

Obama said he would not sign any spending bills that keeps the $493 billion cap for fiscal 2016 in place. (AP File Photo)

Showdown coming over non-defense spending

Joseph Lawler · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

"I think it's fair to say that we've reached our limit right now in so far as the conversations have been going on for more than a year," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. (AP)

National Security

Iran talks blow past another deadline

Charles Hoskinson · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

"We don't know of a single Democrat in Congress â¦ that supports that authorization for the use of military force," said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn.

National Security

Why the Islamic State war authorization might be dead

Susan Ferrechio · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

In current nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Obama administration has been moving closer and closer to the position of the Islamic regime. (AP Photo)

Obama’s Iran legacy on the line in overtime talks

Susan Crabtree · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

McNutt described the technology as a sort of Ã¢â¬ÅthermostatÃ¢â¬ï¿½ that a nation or group of nations would use to refocus the rays of the sun.

Energy and Environment

Top scientists warn climate change solution could make things a lot worse

John Siciliano · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

Utah just approved a law that uses firing squads and Tennessee enacted a law last year that goes back to the electric chair. (AP Photo)Â

Lethal injection drug shortage may get worse

Robert King · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

Tralisa Haggard, right, stands outside the Tennessee Senate chamber during a rally to show of support for Gov. Bill Haslam's Insure Tennessee plan, Monday, March 30 in Nashville. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Medicaid expansion plans rejected by multiple states

Paige Winfield Cunningham · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s unilateral dealmaking riles Congress

Brian Hughes · April 1, 2015 9:00 am

Iraqi security forces and allied Shiite militiamen celebrate in front of the provincial council building in Tikrit, 80 miles (130 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, March 31, 2015. Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants holed up in downtown Tikrit, going house to house Tuesday in search of snipers and booby traps, and the prime minister announced security forces had reached the city's center. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

Tikrit … liberated?

Tara Copp · March 31, 2015 11:00 pm

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked for "all attachments and all documents that include the estimated cost," in addition to any documents "referring or related to the source(s) of funding to cover the cost ... during the base period and options."Â (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Chaffetz subpoenas two members of the Secret Service

Susan Crabtree · March 31, 2015 10:23 pm

The EPA plan sets state-specific targets for lowering carbon dioxide emissions from the existing fleet of power plants. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Grid regulator eyes ‘safety valve’ for power plant rules

John Siciliano · March 31, 2015 9:25 pm