BARACK OBAMA

The newly elected Nigerian president has made cracking down on the extremist Boko Haram group a top priority.

According to John Kerry, the deal "will bring insight and accountability to Iran's nuclear program."

More than half a century of hostility will fade into history Monday as Cuba and the U.S. jointly reopen embassies in Havana and Washington.

"It grieves us beyond belief to know that his pain found its expression in this heinous act of violence," the Abdulazeez family wrote.

"This latest attack is yet another painful example of the atrocities that the terrorist group ISIL continues to perpetrate against the people of Iraq," a NSC spokesman said.

In response to the shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that left five servicemen dead, governors across the nation issued executive orders to arm National Guard officers.

"He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured," the U.S. presidential candidate says at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, via an executive order, gave the National Guard permission to arm military facilities like recruitment centers.

The Iran nuclear deal is worse than the failed 2005 denuclearization deal with North Korea, according to former Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

"They were sitting there and they were just targets for this madman," the GOP presidential candidate said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

“If I do resign that’s admitting I’m a racist and I’m not,” Patrick Rushing said.

No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, but it bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which has launched countless attacks in the northeastern state.

The signatories to the interim accord, including the U.S. and Russia, agreed to prohibit commercial fishing in international waters in the Arctic.

Airstrikes against the Islamic State group have killed several senior officials in recent weeks, but the militant group continues to advance.

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez is believed to be the lone gunman involved in Thursday's shooting that left four Marines dead, according to the FBI.

The shooting on Thursday morning in Chattanooga, Tennessee, had some officials considering more security.

“I ask all Americans to pray for the families that are grief stricken.”

The alleged gunman, who was shot and killed by police in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been named as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez.

A decadeslong, low-level conflict between Nigerian farmers and herders is costing Nigeria nearly $14 billion in economic development each year.

The Republican front-runner said Washington "looks more like General Motors in 1975."

Thursday was the first time a sitting U.S. president has visited a federal prison.