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BADIRAGUATO, Mexico — El Chapo’s gone now, on the far side of his tunnel, a man on the lam in a wide-open world.But where would he go?[The wild fallout from El Chapo’s escape, in 8 numbers]If the past is a guide, questions about the billionaire drug baron Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán tend to find their answers in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains. In these electric-green highlands of eastern Sinaloa state, checkered with plots of marijuana and opium poppy, Guzmán was raised into his illicit profession.Read... Читать дальше...

BADIRAGUATO, Mexico — El Chapo’s gone now, on the far side of his tunnel, a man on the lam in a wide-open world.But where would he go?[The wild fallout from El Chapo’s escape, in 8 numbers]If the past is a guide, questions about the billionaire drug baron Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán tend to find their answers in the rugged Sierra Madre mountains. In these electric-green highlands of eastern Sinaloa state, checkered with plots of marijuana and opium poppy, Guzmán was raised into his illicit profession.Read... Читать дальше...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The 24-year-old gunman who killed four Marines here on Thursday struggled to find meaning in a life that included both the outward success of an assimilated, college graduate and the turmoil of a dysfunctional, sometimes violent home.Read full article >>

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The 24-year-old gunman who killed four Marines here on Thursday struggled to find meaning in a life that included both the outward success of an assimilated, college graduate and the turmoil of a dysfunctional, sometimes violent home.Read full article >>

On Friday, NASA released a new image of Pluto's surface, revealing the icy plains that make up part of the "heart" first spotted in earlier images. Now informally named “Tombaugh Regio” (Tombaugh Region) after Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930, the "heart" is revealing strange geological features — which you can see firsthand in the stunning animation above.Read full article >>

The Huffington Post made a big (okay, big in my world) decision about its Donald Trump coverage on Friday. Here it is:After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won't report on Trump's campaign as part of The Huffington Post's political coverage. Instead, we will cover his campaign as part of our Entertainment section. Our reason is simple: Trump's campaign is a sideshow. We won't take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say... Читать дальше...

JUST SIX short years ago, at Comic-Con 2009, the hall of 6,000-plus high-decibel Marvel fans raucously cheered what was technically billed as the panel for “Iron Man 2,” but something else entirely was in the air. This was the Victory Tour, that palpable moment when an act has had a sudden hit, and now, that wide-eyed surprise is giving way to the seismic pressures and fissures of massive success.Read full article >>

The top editor and publisher of Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French newspaper that suffered a deadly terrorist attack in January, said the publication would no longer draw the cartoons of the prophet Muhammad that have garnered it worldwide notoriety.Read full article >>

CHESTERFIELD, Va. — Two dozen versions of the Confederate battle flag hung from the walls of the hotel ballroom. Grinning retirees wore leather vests emblazoned with it. History buffs in suits had it pinned to their lapels.Read full article >>

Jordan Wiens has always wanted to fly around the world -- business class. His wife is on board for the adventure but would rather save 200,000 frequent flyer miles by flying coach.But after Jordan Wiens won 1.25 million frequent flyer miles with United Airlines, the couple can probably treat themselves to a little more legroom.Read full article >>

LAS VEGAS — With free agency all but complete by the time the NBA convened in Las Vegas for summer league this month, the industry peered forward, to evaluating the next crop of rookies making their professional debuts, to predicting the season set to launch in three months and to speculating about the prized possession in the free agent class of 2016.Read full article >>

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Investigators pored over the foreign travel records of the gunman whose apparent anti-military rampage left four Marines dead, saying Friday that his trips included Jordan but it remained unclear whether he had any contacts with militants abroad.Read full article >>

When President Obama arrived in Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, a vulgar sight awaited him: about 10 demonstrators across the street from Obama’s downtown hotel waving Confederate battle flags as the presidential motorcade pulled up. Read full article >>

When President Obama arrived in Oklahoma City on Wednesday night, a vulgar sight awaited him: About 10 demonstrators across the street from Obama’s downtown hotel waving Confederate battle flags as the presidential motorcade pulled up. Read full article >>

OAK PARK, Ill — Every day renters walk into the Oak Park Regional Housing Center certain they don’t want to live on the east side of town. The east side of town, in this small suburb that borders Chicago, is geographic code for uncomfortably close to where the poor blacks live.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Germany’s parliament on Friday cleared the way for a new Greek bailout, in a contentious vote that exposed deep misgivings in Europe’s powerhouse economy about a $96 billion rescue package forged this week.Read full article >>

It's time to check your freezers again.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced a second, very large frozen chicken recall. This time it involves nearly 2 million pounds of Aspen Foods products that may have been contaminated with salmonella.Read full article >>

CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL FOREST, Ga. — Dozens of Ranger School students lined up at the base of a 3,166-foot tall mountain here on Tuesday morning, dread hanging on some of their faces. The soldiers, wearing boots and camouflage uniforms, needed to make a 1.8-mile climb in an hour while carrying rifles and about 45 pounds of equipment, ascending some 1,000 feet through rocky trails and thick tree cover to a clearing above.Read full article >>

Conventional wisdom has it that the older you are when you get married, the lower your chances for divorce. But a fascinating new analysis of family data by Nicholas H. Wolfinger, a sociologist at the University of Utah, suggests that after a certain point, the risk of divorce starts to rise again as you get older. Here's what that looks like in chart form:Read full article >>

Donald Trump’s proposal to build an impenetrable wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is highly unrealistic and would cost untold billions of dollars, according to experts, documents and former and current government officials.Read full article >>

EL RENO, Okla. — President Obama, who in recent weeks has shed any reticence to talk about racism and discrimination in American life, suggested inside the walls of a federal prison in Oklahoma on Thursday that under different circumstances, he could have been there as an inmate rather than as president.Read full article >>

In the first three months of her presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton has assembled a massive political battleship — hiring more than 400 staff members, collecting reams of expensive polling data and tapping top-flight consultants.Read full article >>

The gunman who targeted U.S. military service members in a late-morning shooting Thursday in Tennessee was a 24-year-old electrical engineer who had grown up in Chattanooga as part of a conservative Muslim family.Read full article >>

Yahoo disclosed last week that African Americans made up just 2 percent of its workers, while Hispanics stood at 4 percent. Those revelations came days after Facebook reported that in 2014 it had employed just 81 blacks among its 5,500 U.S. workers.Read full article >>

In an indication of the battle to come over the just-completed Iran nuclear deal, senior lawmakers of both parties have called on President Obama to stop a vote in the U.N. Security Council, scheduled for next week, to officially endorse the agreement and set terms for its implementation.Read full article >>