Новости за 20.01.2016

In an interview with NPR, Clinton confirmed she eating fresh jalapeño peppers on the campaign trail to stay healthy, which started after she read about how peppers boost immunity back in 1992.

The former secretary of state says a new report that some emails on her private server exceeded the "Top Secret" classification is "an effort to inject" controversy into her campaign.

The singer-songwriter plays most of the instruments himself on his new album. Critic Ken Tucker says you can hear a love for pop music in Hughes' silly sentiments and artful arrangements.

Kevin Bales' book, Blood and Earth, explains why slavery in the world's lawless zones is essential to operate mines that pose a grave threat to the environment.

The young Minnesota folk-pop singer performs a short concert in his home state.

Criminal background checks and assurances that a person "is competent to be a journalist" are among the requirements put forth by State Rep. Mike Pitts in South Carolina's Legislature.

The latest instance of public school teachers calling in sick en masse comes a day after Gov. Rick Snyder's State of the State address, in which he did not directly mention poor school conditions.

The deal OK'd by a key Senate panel preserves stricter school nutrition standards enacted since 2010, but gives schools more leeway in implementing them. It also calls for encouraging salad bars.

Our first new mix of 2016 includes a David Bowie cover from Glen Hansard, premieres from Ray LaMontagne, Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Laura Gibson and more.

Seven of us share our initial reactions to the songs we're receiving as some form of preamble to SWISH with each other and with you.

The Russian shoegaze band alternates thunderous pop and astral highlife funk in a radiant video shot in its hometown of St. Petersburg.

The Northern Hemisphere saw the biggest rise in land temperatures, finishing 2.59 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the 20th century average.

Hans Asperger identified autism as a spectrum of disorders in the 1930s, but his work was ignored for decades because he went on to work under the Nazis. Research and treatment suffered as a result.

The new images obtained by The Associated Press show the site of St. Elijah's Monastery in the ISIS-held city of Mosul. ISIS likely destroyed the monastery in the fall of 2014.

Something very big, out beyond Neptune, is warping the orbits of small, icy objects circling our sun. Astronomers haven't seen it yet, but say the culprit could be a planet with 10 times Earth's mass.

U.S. peacekeeping troops have been based for decades in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, where the greatest danger was often sunburn. But with extremists now nearby, the mission has become far riskier.

Reinventing himself once more, the former frontman of Archers Of Loaf and Crooked Fingers makes a clean break from his past.

The search for any potential survivors turned up life rafts, but no one was aboard. The operation now becomes one of salvage and recovery.

After wading through more music than one person can possibly see, here's how six different writers (and a photographer) remember this year's edition of a glorious annual overload.

No deaths were caused by the New Year's Eve fire. The short-circuit occurred in a bright light that's used to illuminate the hotel's exterior, police say.

Gunmen attacked a university in Charsadda, Pakistan, killing at least 20 people. Steve Inskeep talks to Jonathan Boone, a reporter with The Guardian. Charsadda has been the scene of previous attacks.

A new study finds black students are half as likely as white students to be assigned to a gifted program. Unless their teacher looks like them.

At Glastonbury High School, boys used to wear blue gowns; girls wore pink. The school's Gay Straight Alliance Club requested the change. Now everybody will wear a blue gown with a white sash.

Last year the scientists came up with a vaccine that could cure AIDS, drug addition and Ebola. This year, according to the Pyongyang Times, they've discovered hangover-free alcohol.

Tim Powers — best known for his time-travel classic The Anubis Gates — mixes up the decades again in Medusa's Web, a tale of an eerie estate in Hollywood and a family unmoored in time.