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• Barna probes: Does America really know Jesus?
  
  
  With Bible-themed movies and programs hitting the big screen and flat screen in unprecedented numbers over the past few years, one Christian research company set to find out what Americans really believe about Jesus Christ.
  
  
• Obama OK calling out 'Christians' as offenders, but not as victims
  
  
  
  
  
  President Obama continues to draw criticism for not identifying murder victims in Kenya as Christians.
  
  
• Obama's Iran deal: Someday the world will cry, 'Why?!'
  
  

  
  

  
  

   

   

  
  

  Barack Obama is a young man. By the time he leaves office, he will be in his mid-50s. 

  Based on life expectancy, he could live for another 40 years or so. So he will be around to see the full consequences of his disastrous Iran nuclear "framework."
• Still uneasy about Common Core? Wait until you find out who birthed it
  
  
  
  
  Though implementation of Common Core is credited to – or blamed on - the Obama administration, an education analyst says the foundation was laid by Hillary Clinton in the 1980s.
  
  
  
• Sanger on $20 bill is 'disgraceful' to blacks, says pro-lifer
  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  A black pro-life leader says that African Americans have been betrayed by leadership in Washington, D.C.

  
  
• Gas tax increase? Not to worry, says analyst
  
  
  Congress is quickly approaching a deadline on highway funding, but one analyst predicts a gas tax increase won't be part of any deal.
  

AP Headlines After bomber's conviction, jury to decide life or death BOSTON (April 9, 2015)- Now that a jury has convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on all charges, even more is at stake in the next phase of the federal trial: The same 12 people must decide whether the 21-year-old lives or dies. Wisconsin man accused of trying to join Islamic State group MADISON, Wis. (April 9, 2015) — A Wisconsin man traveled to the Middle East in a failed attempt to join the Islamic State group, federal authorities said Thursday. SC officer who shot man had prior excessive force complaint NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (April 9, 2015)- The South Carolina police officer charged with murder after video surfaced of him shooting a fleeing unarmed black man in the back was allowed to stay on the force despite an earlier complaint that he used excessive force against another unarmed man. Obama: Decision near on removing Cuba from terror list KINGSTON, Jamaica (April 9, 2015) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that he soon decide whether to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism now that the State Department has finished a review on the question as part of the move to reopen diplomatic relations with the island nation. VA makes little headway in fight to shorten waits for care FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (April 9, 2015) — A year after Americans recoiled at new revelations that sick veterans were getting sicker while languishing on waiting lists — and months after the Department of Veterans Affairs instituted major reforms — government data shows that the number of patients facing long waits at VA facilities has not dropped at all. Iran's top leader stops short of endorsing nuclear deal TEHRAN, Iran (April 9, 2015) — Iran's top leader on Thursday stopped short of giving his endorsement to the framework nuclear deal struck last week between Teheran and world powers, while the country's president warned separately that Tehran's approval of a final deal depends on the immediate lifting of all sanctions related to its controversial nuclear program. NKorea says it deports American for plotting, making videos SEOUL, South Korea (April 9, 2015)- North Korea says an American woman who frequently visited the North over nearly 20 years has been deported for what the communist regime calls "plot-breeding and propaganda."