Новости за 16.08.2015

Is “aggregation” just a euphemism for theft?From his office in the back of a Queens, N.Y., nail salon, Josh Ostrovsky is saying the answer is no. Or maybe that he just doesn’t care — even if comedians are calling for his head.Read full article >>

Is “aggregation” just a euphemism for theft?From his office in the back of a Queens, N.Y., nail salon, Josh Ostrovsky is saying the answer is no. Or maybe that he just doesn’t care — even if comedians are calling for his head.Read full article >>

BEIRUT — Government airstrikes killed as many as 100 people in a Damascus suburb Sunday, activists said, in one of the deadliest attacks of Syria’s four-year-old conflict.The air raids by President Bashar al-Assad’s military targeted a market in the Douma area of the capital, according to activists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the fighting.Read full article >>

While still in his 20s, Julian Bond was already one of the most charismatic and best-known figures of the civil rights movement. Tall, strikingly handsome and a gifted orator, he won a Supreme Court challenge in 1966 to be seated in the Georgia state legislature, and he remained an outspoken voice against discrimination for more than 50 years as president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, chairman of the NAACP and a professor at American University and the University of Virginia.Read full article... Читать дальше...

FROM PARK to cineplex, Star Wars has new plans for taking the world by Stormtrooper.As spotlighted this weekend at Disney’s D23 Expo in Anaheim, everything about Star Wars industries is on track for getting even bigger. Where else but in the Mouse House could news of theme-park expansions rival even the highly anticipated reveals about on-screen content?Read full article >>

A sheriff’s office deputy was fatally shot this weekend after responding to a domestic violence call, authorities in Nevada said.Carson City Sheriff’s Deputy Carl Howell, a married father of four, was killed in the incident, which occurred Saturday, according to the Associated Press.Read full article >>

Julian Bond, a champion of equal rights, died Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. His wife of 24 years, Pamela Horowitz, was leaving the intensive care unit when a nurse stopped her, the first admirer to offer condolences.Read full article >>

This item has been updated.The super PAC allied with Jeb Bush's presidential campaign has the largest piggy bank in American politics — but it's now planning to start spending some of the money.Right to Rise USA is preparing to make an eight-figure ad buy in the early primary states. Starting  Monday, the group plans to begin making media buys in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, it announced Sunday.Read full article >>

Dear Democrats: It’s too late to start over.As in, there’s no replacing Hillary Rodham Clinton as your party’s front-runner for the presidential nomination. Not with Vice President Biden — even if he runs. Not with former vice president Al Gore. (I mean, come on.) Not with your ideal rich-person-with-no-record-and-a-fresh-faced-appeal.Read full article >>

This post has been updated Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that undocumented immigrants "have to go," and he has vowed to undo President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.Read full article >>

Fifty-four people, including five children, were aboard an aircraft that went missing during a brief flight in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, according to reports.The Trigana Air Service plane lost contact with officials on the ground in Oksibil, where it was expected to land, Transportation Ministry spokesman Julius Barata told the Associated Press.Read full article >>

A player in the Milwaukee Brewers’ farm system has made baseball history by becoming the first openly gay active player on a team affiliated with Major League Baseball.David Denson, a 20-year-old first baseman for the Brewers’ rookie affiliate in Helena, Mont., told his teammates roughly a month ago, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a story in which he came out to the rest of the world.Read full article >>

After Carly Fiorina's standout performance in the Aug. 6 Republican pre-debate, we were eager to see her polling numbers. Sure, she spoke in the so-called "kiddie table" debate -- really more of a 5 o'clock forum featuring the bottom seven Republican presidential candidates before the main stage of the top 10 -- and sure, her competition was six men who were pretty, well, lackluster that day. Read full article >>

TOKYO — Japan’s emperor expressed his “deep remorse” Saturday over his country’s actions during World War II, strengthening his usual statement of regret on the anniversary of the end of a particularly ignominious period in Japanese history.Read full article >>

A major malfunction in the system that routes planes through 160,000 square miles of airspace centered over Washington caused airlines to delay or cancel hundreds of flights nationwide Saturday, and some frustrated passengers won’t reach their destinations until Sunday.Read full article >>

It was supposed to be different this time. After the wounds of 2008, many of them self-inflicted, Hillary Rodham Clinton rebooted for 2016 with a new message, new advisers and new energy. But two dynamics have crystallized this month, suggesting the New Hillary is hobbled by old weaknesses. Once again, worried supporters see signs of a bunker mentality in response to bad news about her e-mail server and other controversies, and they see a candidate who can seem strangely blinkered to the threat posed... Читать дальше...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Even for a park with a history of unhappy encounters between people and wildlife, 2015 is shaping up as an eventful year for Yellowstone and its bison. Since mid-May, five visitors have been hurt — gored, trampled or tossed into the air — in run-ins with the park’s most famous residents. Read full article >>

A man was shot and killed Saturday afternoon in the Shaw neighborhood in Northwest Washington, a few blocks from where three people were shot and wounded Tuesday night.The victim was identified by police as Matthew C. Shlonsky, 23, of Northeast. Online information indicated that he was a member of the class of 2014 at American University and was on the honor roll.Read full article >>

DES MOINES — The road to the White House leads from the life-size cow carved from 600 pounds of butter here at the Iowa State Fair to the stand selling $7 grilled pork chops on a stick.There’s where Hillary Rodham Clinton was strolling on Saturday, shaking hands and posing for selfies with sweaty supporters under an unforgiving sun, when the whirring sound of helicopter blades approached, then grew louder, then louder still.Read full article >>

PISKY, Ukraine — The staccato of machine-gun fire begins at dusk, just as the sunflower fields here turn orange with the setting sun.A Ukrainian army company of 110 soldiers defends the right flank of this largely deserted village, less than a mile outside of separatist-controlled Donetsk in eastern Ukraine and close to the city’s strategically key airport.Read full article >>

By many accounts, Vice President Biden has spent his vacation week mulling whether to run for president — again. The decision will test head and heart and involve no small amount of emotion.Tracking the story of is-he-or-isn’t-he-going-to-run is akin to chasing smoke, even to those who are loyal friends. Few people beyond his family are privy to his real thinking. Some Democrats say his advisers are making calls. Everyone looks for evidence of active pursuit of a campaign. Friends say they don’t yet sense a real campaign-in-the-making... Читать дальше...