Новости за 11.08.2015

J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS!Holy Moly: Geno smith got sucker punched in locker room this morning. Broken jaw. Out 6-10 weeks at least.Read full article >>

TOKYO — Emperor Akihito is a man of few words. Japan’s American-written constitution designed it that way.But the 81-year-old figurehead has increasingly found ways to skirt the constitutional limits on his role and has, in characteristically subtle language, appeared to voice his displeasure with the path that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is leading Japan down.Read full article >>

Three dozen retired generals and admirals released an open letter Tuesday supporting the Iran nuclear deal and urging Congress to do the same.Calling the agreement “the most effective means currently available to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons,” the letter said that gaining international support for military action against Iran, should that ever become necessary, “would only be possible if we have first given the diplomatic path a chance.”Read full article >>

When Kim Kardashian tweeted and instagrammed her enthusiasm about a morning sickness treatment, her words of praise were a direct pipeline to tens of millions of followers.“OMG. Have you heard about this? As you guys know my #morningsickness has been pretty bad,” the celebrity wrote on an Instagram post that she also linked to on Twitter late last month. Kardashian has more than 34 million Twitter followers and 42 million Instagram followers.Read full article >>

MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass. — Summertime, and the living is pricey. Small hotels are charging 500 bucks a night — without breakfast — and tourists renting a car for a week will not get much change from $1,500.Read full article >>

Flip Saunders, the Minnesota Timberwolves’ president of basketball operations and head coach, is undergoing treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he announced Tuesday.The disease was diagnosed eight weeks ago during an examination by Dr. Sheldon Burns, the team’s vice-president of medical services, and Saunders immediately began treatment at the Mayo Clinic for what the team said is a “very treatable and curable form of cancer.”Read full article >>

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — Air National Guard C-130s roared over the lush, shaggy grass of the Elizabeth Drop Zone here last week, a near-steady hum overhead. Army Ranger students were a few hours into a mission known as Operation Pegasus, and needed to parachute in from a height of about 1,100 feet.Read full article >>

Beset by fundraising troubles, Rick Perry's presidential campaign sees a path forward by morphing into a skeletal operation and living off the land to keep the former Texas governor's candidacy alive through to the start of next year's caucus and primaries.Read full article >>

On Monday night, protesters again gathered in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. Demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb have flared up in recent days to mark the first anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager who was fatally shot by a white police officer.Read full article >>

An international hacking ring armed with tens of thousands of corporate secrets pocketed more than $100 million from illicit trades, targeting a core vulnerability of the financial system in one of the digital age's most sprawling insider-trading schemes, federal investigators said Tuesday.Read full article >>

It comes up early and often (if indirectly) in GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson's 1990 biography, "Gifted Hands." And it generated one of the biggest applause lines in the first GOP presidential primary debate.Read full article >>

The news that Rick Perry has stopped paying all of his campaign staff following Thursday's debate is a sure sign of major troubles -- and could be the leading edge of the collapse of his campaign.If this is the end -- and Perry's super PAC support could well keep him on life support for a bit longer -- it would be a remarkable bit of timing: Perry entered the 2012 presidential race as its frontrunner on August 13, 2011 -- almost four years to the day when it's become clear that his second bid for... Читать дальше...

In a legal filing submitted last week, Little League International claims the Jackie Robinson West team out of Chicago had just five eligible players on its 13-player roster during last year’s Little League World Series.Read full article >>

FERGUSON, Mo. — Police bolstered by emergency orders maintained close watch Tuesday over protest-wracked streets in Ferguson after another night of demonstrations saw multiple arrests and brought new potential flash points.Read full article >>

LOS ANGELES — Dante Harris, the leader of a local flight attendants union, had a question for the 17,500 people inside the Los Angeles Sports Arena.“Did all of you make the trip out here on a Monday night because everything is going well for you and your family?”Read full article >>

China surprised the world on Tuesday, announcing it would devalue its currency in a move likely to boost Chinese exports and support the country's flagging economic growth. The change to the currency's value was the most dramatic in two decades.Read full article >>

Life has its ups and downs, but parenthood is supposed to be among the most joyous. At least that's what the movies and Target ads tell us.In reality, it turns out that having a child can have a pretty strong negative impact on a person's happiness, according to a new study published in the journal Demography. In fact, on average, the effect of a new baby on a person's life is devastatingly bad — worse than divorce, worse than unemployment and worse even than the death of a partner.Read full article... Читать дальше...

‘If you watch, she’ll start salivating,” Sally Swift says from a control room in the Minnesota Public Radio studios. “It’s really funny.” She’s talking about Lynne Rossetto Kasper, who on the other side of a large window is settling into a detailed description of a marinated chicken dish that Carly from Chantilly, Va., could prepare in a small kitchen. Read full article >>

A Google by any other name would actually smell 5 percent more sweet.That, at least, is how much the search engine's stock price shot up after it announced it would be calling itself "Alphabet" from now on. Why? It's not that investors care about the name itself. It's that investors care about what the name says about how it will run itself.Read full article >>

Actress Melissa Gilbert is best remembered as the freckle-faced child star in the 1970s and ’80s TV series “Little House on the Prairie.” America watched her grow up on set — where she had her first kiss, learned to ride a horse and survived her first bee sting, she once told the Archive of American Television.Read full article >>

When it comes to online dating, deciding how to present yourself may be more of a science than an art. One strike — such as a mirror shot or airbrushed selfie — and you’re out.So we asked some online dating experts for help on making the best first impression. Follow these tips, and you might get more right swipes.Read full article >>

BEIRUT — Following angry protests by government supporters, Syrian authorities say they have arrested a cousin of President Bashar al-Assad who is accused of murdering a military officer in a road-rage incident, the Syrian state news agency reported. Read full article >>

Another day, another Donald Sterling lawsuit. The notoriously litigious former owner of the Clippers is taking TMZ and V. Stiviano to court in a case that gets to the heart of that “former” part, given that a leaked recording of Sterling making racist comments is what got him ultimately ousted from the NBA.Read full article >>

FERGUSON, Mo. — St. Louis County declared a state of emergency Monday as authorities arrested dozens of demonstrators here and charged an 18-year-old black man who had been critically wounded by police with assaulting law enforcement officers.Read full article >>

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — No one is more eager for CBS’s “Late Show With Stephen Colbert” to start next month than Colbert himself. He prays every night for GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump to stay healthy “until I can get on the air.”Read full article >>