Новости за 12.08.2015

Former president Jimmy Carter announced Wednesday that he has cancer and will be undergoing treatment at Emory Healthcare in Atlanta.Carter, 90, said the disease was discovered during recent liver surgery to remove "a small mass" and that the cancer "is now in other parts of my body."Read full article >>

As millions of students head back to school in coming weeks, they’ll be toting more than just a few notebooks and a backpack. Increasingly, public schools are leaning on families to outfit entire classrooms, asking them to supply items as varied as cardstock, copier paper, hand sanitizer and Band-Aids.Read full article >>

The track defect that caused last week’s Metro derailment was detected more than a month ago, but it was not repaired, the agency’s top executive said Wednesday.In addition, the flaw’s detection should have triggered the immediate shutdown of the section of rail involved, but the agency continued to run trains through it until the derailment.Read full article >>

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency toured the sludge-coated banks of Colorado’s Animas River on Wednesday, as the Obama administration sought to limit the environmental and political damage from last week’s 3-million-gallon toxic waste spill — one caused in part by the agency’s own contractors.Read full article >>

BEIJING — China’s currency slid for a second day on Wednesday, sending more shockwaves through global financial markets and raising fresh questions about the credibility of the country’s economic management.Read full article >>

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said Wednesday that he disagrees with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s idea that the United States should go into Iraq and seize oil being used to fund the Islamic State militant group, saying that there are limits on what military power can do.Read full article >>

CAIRO — An Islamic State affiliate claimed Wednesday to have beheaded a Croatian national held hostage for weeks in what would be the group’s first killing of a foreign captive in Egypt.If confirmed, the death would mark a fresh challenge to Egypt’s economy and the country’s effort to stem a rising Islamist insurgency that has targeted major tourist sites and military outposts.Read full article >>

Last Tuesday, a pair of French hikers died of heat exhaustion in White Sands National Monument after setting out on a day hike without enough water. Three days later a hiker was killed by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone. These incidents are unspeakable tragedies for the people and families involved, but the fact that they make national news underscores a key point: the nation's national parks are an incredibly safe place to visit.Read full article >>

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) signed legislation Wednesday to spend $250 million from taxpayers on a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team — a deal he has championed for months despite fierce opposition from fiscal conservatives who usually agree with him.Read full article >>

Amid concerns of renewed unrest on the streets of Ferguson, Mo., police said Wednesday that no one was arrested during Tuesday night’s protests.Still, St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger announced Wednesday afternoon that he was extending the state of emergency he had declared two days earlier. The state of emergency allows the St. Louis County Police Department to oversee security in Ferguson. Stenger said in a statement it was “because of their ability to maintain order that I find it prudent... Читать дальше...

CAIRO — An Islamic State affiliate in Egypt claimed Wednesday to have beheaded a Croatian national held hostage for weeks in what would be the group’s first slaying of a foreign captive.If confirmed, the killing would mark a fresh challenge to Egypt’s economy and the country’s effort to stem a rising Islamist insurgency after attacks that have targeted major tourist sites and military outposts.Read full article >>

“Dear Mum, my name is Margot Bachmann and I am your daughter, born on Oct 25 1944 in Heidelberg. All my life I asked my family about you, without being given any answers. I want to come and find you so that I can hug you once again. I’m immensely happy to be able to finally know you.”Read full article >>

The number of S&P 500 companies with all-male boards of directors has now dropped to an even dozen.A decade ago, 60 companies — that's 12 percent of the S&P 500 — didn't have any female directors on their boards. Even 10 months ago, the research firm Catalyst listed 18 companies without a single woman. Yet the pace of change has quickly accelerated and the number has today plummeted to only 12 companies, or about 2 percent.Read full article >>

One of the most prominent differences in the bases of support for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is in racial composition. In Fox News' most recent poll, Clinton led Sanders by 29 points among all voters -- and by 50 points among non-white voters. Sanders has increased his emphasis on courting non-white voters for that very reason.Read full article >>

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s fashion empire is under fire for allegedly failing to pay interns. Forty interns — past and present — have filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court against the Olsen twins’ company, Dualstar Entertainment Group. Former design intern Shahista Lalani, who’s leading the charge, claimed she worked 50 hours a week back in 2012 tackling tedious jobs such as cleaning, photocopying, sewing and running errands — but never saw a cent, according to court documents... Читать дальше...

Lawyers representing the NFL and its players’ union will meet Wednesday in U.S. District Court in New York for a settlement conference over the league’s four-game suspension of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady for his role in the DeflateGate scandal. Here’s what you need to know about what’s likely to go down.Read full article >>

The poverty that poor African Americans experience is often different from the poverty of poor whites. It's more isolating and concentrated. It extends out the door of a family's home and occupies the entire neighborhood around it, touching the streets, the schools, the grocery stores.Read full article >>

A federal agency has concluded that the driver of a Wal-Mart tractor trailer was the primary cause of a crash that seriously injured actor Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian last year. On June 7, 2014, Morgan — best known for his work on “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” — was in a limo bus when it was rear-ended by a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike. The crash killed comedy writer James McNair. Morgan suffered a broken leg, nose and ribs in the accident. He was also in... Читать дальше...

Consumers are creatures of habit — and that laziness has a cost.It’s not unusual for people to procrastinate financial actions until the last possible moment. And once a decision is made, many people are likely to stick with that choice — even for decades — as better deals pass them by.Read full article >>

Nefertiti — she’s an ancient Egyptian queen and the source of a fantastic mystery regarding the iconic remnants of long-lost royalty.For decades, archaeologists have speculated on the location of the queen’s remains, the last royal mummy missing from the dynasty of the famous King Tutankhamun, better known as King Tut. But now, an archaeologist claims that he has found her secret tomb in the Valley of the Kings, hidden just beyond a wall near the resting place of the boy-pharaoh.Read full article... Читать дальше...

Hours after a Texas police officer was fired for fatally shooting an unarmed college football player, the athlete’s father said he found little comfort in the decision.“Relieved wouldn’t be the word,” Adrian Taylor told The Washington Post in a telephone interview. “We are all human and make mistakes and there isn’t a winner in this. You know what I mean? We are both losers.”Read full article >>

“Three percent of all Planned Parenthood health services are abortion services.”—Planned Parenthood, fact sheet on Web site “In 2013, abortions made up 94% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services.”Read full article >>

TOKYO — Japan switched on a nuclear reactor Tuesday on the southern island of Kyushu, marking a first, tentative return to nuclear energy following the catastrophic meltdowns at Fukushima four years ago.Read full article >>

All across the world, a smorgasbord of serious economic and political problems are leading people to leave their homes in search of a better life in Europe. Once they arrive, however, many end up in limbo: The tent cities that have sprung up in Paris and Rome are evidence of the trouble migrants can find once they arrive. Some British tabloids have even demanded that the army be sent in to confront "the Jungle," one makeshift migrant camp in Calais, France.Read full article >>

After Tracey Bell tried to register to vote in Virginia last year, she got a letter in the mail saying her citizenship was in doubt and she would have to pay $10 to prove it. Confused and annoyed, Bell ranted on Facebook.Read full article >>