Новости за 08.10.2015

A derailed train collides with Autumn foliage, an airline director flees his employees, a volcano spews into the night sky and more.

Senate Democrats unveiled plans on Thursday for gun control reforms that include closing background check loopholes.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has abruptly pulled out of the race for Speaker of the House on the same day that he was widely expected to be nominated for the position.

French train attack hero Spencer Stone was in a critical condition after being stabbed on Wednesday night.

Volkwagen's top U.S. executive testified Thursday that emissions-cheating software in diesel cars was the work of "a couple of software engineers."

What's behind the spate of "lone-wolf" stabbings, unrest and clashes in Israel and the West Bank have left least 10 dead in one week.

FBI Director James Comey says dozens of people in the U.S. are using encryption software to communicate with ISIS supporters.

General Motors is telling owners of some SUVs not to use their windshield wipers because a short could cause the wiper motor to catch fire.

More than one-third of the world's coral reefs this year are at risk from bleaching -- an effect that can kill coral as ocean temperatures rise.

Back in July, the famous theoretical physicist began taking questions for his first-ever Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session.

Syrian troops and allied militia backed by Russian airstrikes and cruise missiles fired from warships attacked rebel forces on Thursday.

A Rhode Island Hospital kicks out chronically obese patient after he orders pizza. WJAR's Matt Reed reports.

U.S. oncologists, aware that patients are paying more of the costs of expensive cancer drugs, are increasingly declining to prescribe medicines that have scant or no effect, even as a last resort

Patients may be more likely to harm themselves or attempt suicide after weight-loss surgery, a Canadian study suggests.

German prosecutors raided Volkswagen headquarters and other offices on Thursday as part of their investigation into the carmaker's emissions scandal.

First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

Thirty-three people remain unaccounted for five days after the deadly U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital.

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has suggested that President Barack Obama is not a "real black president."

Svetlana Alexievich was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday.

A victim of last week's deadly shooting at an Oregon college who was hailed as a hero tried to save other students was released from hospital.

Police have arrested a man who is accused of stabbing a family member during a funeral, then trying to get away in a limousine, according to police.

Under a deal with prosecutors, Mingdong Chen must spend at least 125 years in prison before becoming eligible for parole.

Is Donald J Trump really running for President? Yes. When will he drop out? Who knows, but 112 days in and 116 days until the first votes are cast in Iowa, it's a smart bet that won't be any time soon.

A Florida school board will pay $600,000 to the families of three students who died after they were hypnotized by high school principal George Kenney.

President Obama called the Doctors Without Borders chief and the president of Afghanistan to apologize for the deadly airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz.