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Newsfeed FORT MEADE, MD. Two cross-dressing men who were fired upon by Na- tional Security Agency police when they dis- obeyed orders at a heav- ily guarded gate had just stolen a car from a man who had picked them up and checked into a mo- tel, police said Tuesday. The FBI said the driver, Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27, died at the scene, and his passenger remained hos- pitalized Tuesday with unspecified injuries. An NSA police officer was treated for minor injuries and released. NSA police opened fire on the stolen sports utility vehicle after Hall failed to follow instructions for leaving a restricted area, authorities said. As it turns out, Hall and his passenger had just driven off in the SUV of a 60-year-old Baltimore man, who told investigators that he had picked up the two strangers in Baltimore and brought them to a Howard County motel. "We can't confirm there was any sex- ual activity involved," a Howard County Po- lice spokeswoman, Mary Phelan, told The Associ- ated Press on Tuesday. MARYLAND Dress-wearingman killed by NSA police had lengthy record WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton emailed her staff on an iPad as well as a BlackBerry while sec- retary of state, despite her explanation she ex- clusively used a per- sonal email address on a homebrew server so that she could carry a single device, according to doc- uments obtained by The Associated Press. The State Department released a total of four emails between Clinton and her top advisers as part of a Freedom of In- formation Act request filed in 2013 by the AP, which sought Clinton's correspondence with se- nior advisers over a four- year period relating to drone strikes overseas and U.S. surveillance programs. While limited, the emails offer one of the first looks into Clinton's correspondence while secretary of state. WASHINGTON, D.C. Clinton also used iPad for email; mixed personal, work chats BOSTON Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case in his federal death penalty trial Tuesday, a day after they began presenting testi- mony designed to show his late older brother was the mastermind of the 2013 terror attack. The defense admit- ted during opening statements that Tsar- naev participated in the bombings. But Tsar- naev's lawyer said he was a troubled 19-year- old who had fallen un- der the influence of his radicalized 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, who died following a shoot- out with police days af- ter the bombings. MASSACHUSETTS Defense rests in 1st phase of marathon bombing trial MICHAELCONROY—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Indiana Gov. Mike Pence holds a news conference at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. By Tom Davies and Andrew Demillo TheAssociatedPress INDIANAPOLIS Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Tues- day that he wants legisla- tion on his desk by the end of the week to clarify that the state's new religious- freedom law does not al- low discrimination against gays and lesbians. Pence defended the mea- sure as a vehicle to protect religious liberty but said he has been meeting with law- makers "around the clock" to address concerns that it would allow businesses to deny services to gay cus- tomers. The governor said he does not believe "for a min- ute" that lawmakers in- tended "to create a license to discriminate." "It certainly wasn't my intent," said Pence, who signed the law last week. But, he said, he "can ap- preciate that that's become the perception, not just here in Indiana but all across the country. We need to con- front that." Meanwhile in Arkansas, lawmakers were poised to follow Indiana in enacting a law, despite increasing crit- icism from businesses and gay-rights advocates. The Indiana law prohib- its any laws that "substan- tially burden" a person's ability to follow his or her religious beliefs. The defi- nition of "person" includes religious institutions, busi- nesses and associations. Although the legal lan- guage does not specifically mention gays and lesbians, critics say the law is de- signed to protect businesses and individuals who do not want to serve gays and les- bians, such as florists or ca- terers who might be hired for a same-sex wedding. In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Ear- nest said Indiana officials appeared to be in "damage- control mode" following an uproar over the law. Earnest also took issue with Pence's claim that In- diana's law was rooted in a 1993 federal law. He said the Indiana measure marked a "significant expansion" over that law because it applies to private transactions be- yond those involving the federal government. The federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act arose from a case related to the use of peyote in a Na- tive American ritual. But in 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the fed- eral law did not apply to the states. So states began enacting their own laws. Twenty now have them on the books. Governor wants to t we ak n ew l aw Pe nc e s ee ks t o c la ri fy r el ig io n p ro te ct io ns INDIANA By Michelle Faul and Andrew Drake The Associated Press ABUJA, NIGERIA Amid an- ger over an Islamist in- surgency that has claimed thousands of lives, Nigeri- ans returned a 72-year-old former military dictator to power Tuesday in the most hotly contested election in the country's history. Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat to Muhammadu Buhari, a Cabinet minister close to the outgoing president told The Associated Press, pav- ing the way for an unprece- dented peaceful transfer of power in Africa's most pop- ulous nation. It will be the first time in Nigeria's history that an opposition party has dem- ocratically taken control of the country from the ruling party — a sign of the West African nation's maturing young democracy. Jona- than's party has governed since decades of military dictatorship ended in 1999. Celebrations erupted all over Buhari's strong- holds in northern Nigeria and around his campaign headquarters in Abuja. Cars honked and people waved brooms in the air — a sym- bol of Buhari's campaign promise to sweep out Ni- geria's endemic corruption. Jonathan called Buhari to congratulate him Tues- day evening, thus conced- ing defeat, Aviation Minis- ter Osita Chidoka said. Jonathan's concession came before the final an- nouncement of election re- sults by the Independent National Electoral Com- mission and as Buhari pre- pared to address the nation. 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