Новости за 19.08.2015

KUSRA, West Bank — The men of this hilltop town who gather at night with clubs and flashlights stress they are not afraid. But they say something changed after the recent arson attack that left a toddler dead in a village just a few miles away.Read full article >>

The thing about a zombie apocalypse is that no one sees it coming until it’s already upon us. It starts out with an experiment, usually benevolent by design: an attempt to cure a disease, or study a monkey, or help fund presidential candidates who can’t raise enough money on their own. But without warning, things take a turn for the worse.Read full article >>

The release of names purported to be users of cheaters site AshleyMadison.com on Wednesday — a hacked list that reportedly includes thousands of guys with e-mail addresses registered to Hill offices, federal agencies and even the White House — doesn’t exactly have the city on edge, in the cinematic mode a Hollywood scriptwriter might concoct.Read full article >>

BEIRUT — Khaled Asaad was a respected scholar who devoted more than five decades of his life to preserving the majestic, 2,000-year-old ruins of Palmyra, a city in the Syrian desert.On Tuesday, Islamic State extremists beheaded the former chief of antiquities in the city and left his body hanging in public for terrified residents to view, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).Read full article >>

Will Smith is reportedly working on a revival of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," with new characters and a new interpretation for the 21st century of the classic television show about race and class.In the original show, Smith's character leaves behind his down-and-out upbringing in West Philadelphia to live with his relatives, the Bankses, in the posh Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel-Air. The Fresh Prince's family hopes to give him a better life away from Philly's rough streets.Read full article >>

Jared Fogle, who for years served as the national spokesman for the sandwich chain Subway, is facing federal charges that he paid to engage in sexually explicit acts with children and that he received and distributed child pornography, according to federal documents.Read full article >>

Ten years ago next week, a terrifying hurricane stood perched atop the Gulf of Mexico. Katrina. It had rapidly intensified from a Category 3 into a deadly Category 5 monster and began its northward turn towards the Gulf coast—weakening, fortunately, but still driving a tremendous wall of water.Read full article >>

If you’re angry with the Social Security clerk you dealt with, or happy with the airport security screener who rifled through your bags, you can now tap a button on a kiosk and let the government know.Read full article >>

Hillary Clinton held a press availability in Las Vegas on Tuesday afternoon. It did not go well.Clinton got into an extended back and forth with Fox News Channel's Ed Henry over the private e-mail server she exclusively used during her time as secretary of state. Here it is:Read full article >>

Police in Thailand broadened their hunt Wednesday for the perpetrator of a deadly bomb attack in central Bangkok, issuing a police sketch of the man sought in a huge manhunt and suggesting he was part of a wider network.Read full article >>

In the past week, the small Denver technology firm at the center of the scandal surrounding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s e-mails has received death threats. There have been phone calls from screaming strangers. The company has removed from its Web site biographies of its executives as well as testimonials from some of its customers.Read full article >>

It’s a tiny little thing, no bigger than a pencil eraser and certainly not capable of thinking for itself, but it’s got all the major structures and 99 percent of the genes present in the brain of a five-week-old fetus.Read full article >>

The Department of Housing and Urban Development said Tuesday that in response to an unsparing audit by its watchdog, it’s urging public housing authorities across the country to kick out tenants who make too much money to qualify for government subsidies.Read full article >>

As a conservative who has advocated for criminal justice reform, I have a lot of admiration for the #BlackLivesMatter movement, which has been remarkably effective at raising awareness of the myriad ways that black Americans are treated differently — or, put more bluntly, treated worse — by law enforcement. Although I haven’t always agreed with their tactics or rhetoric, I have appreciated the movement’s tenacity and unwillingness to be mollified by platitudes and talking points from politicians... Читать дальше...

Transgender whistleblower Chelsea Manning was found guilty Tuesday on four disciplinary charges and given 21 days of recreational restrictions for breaking military prison rules — keeping expired toothpaste and Vanity Fair’s Caitlyn Jenner cover, among other things, in her cell, her attorney said.Read full article >>

Amid reports that hackers apparently had posted online the personal and financial information for up to 40 million members of the infidelities-R-us Web site Ashley Madison, some Americans responded Tuesday night with a shrug.Read full article >>

Zimbabwe has charged a second man in connection to the killing of Cecil the lion, but his name is not Walter Palmer.Prosecutors on Tuesday accused Zimbabwean farmer Honest Ndlovu of allowing the American dentist to hunt Cecil on his land without the required permission, the Associated Press reported.Read full article >>

Cheating spouses beware: Hackers claim to have released data stolen last month during a breach at Ashley Madison, a dating site for people looking for affairs.A roughly 10-gigabyte file that purported to contain several points of personal data, including e-mails, member profiles, credit-card transactions and other sensitive information about Ashley Madison's millions of users became available Tuesday, according to numerous media reports.Read full article >>

PHILADELPHIA, Miss. — The Confederate flag was on the run earlier this summer. It was coming down everywhere. National retailers stopped selling it. South Carolina’s legislature ordered it removed from the state capitol grounds. Momentum swelled across a nation horrified by a neo-Confederate’s killing of nine African Americans in a historic South Carolina church.Read full article >>

The graduation this week of two female soldiers from the Army’s famously difficult Ranger School has put new pressure on the U.S. military to make women eligible to serve across its combat ranks, current and former U.S. officials said.Read full article >>

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday evening approved the world’s first drug designed to stir a woman’s waning desire for sex, a condition that affects an estimated 1 in 10 U.S. women.The approval of the controversial drug, flibanserin, which the FDA twice rejected before and now will be marketed as Addyi, comes with a series of conditions reflecting the agency’s concerns about serious side effects. These include a boxed warning that highlights the risks of low blood pressure and fainting... Читать дальше...

Scott Walker has sought to reassure jittery donors and other supporters this week that he can turn around a swift decline in the polls in Iowa and elsewhere by going on the attack and emphasizing his conservatism on key issues.Read full article >>

For more than 120 days, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver have ground it out at Ranger School, the Army’s famously difficult school designed to build elite leaders capable of withstanding the rigors of combat. They’ve withstood fearsome weather, exhausting hikes, sleepless nights and simulated combat patrols designed to test their reaction time, teamwork and tenacity under fire.Read full article >>

For Republican leaders, one loaded phrase represents the difference between the party they are and the party they wish to be: “repeal and replace.”Since 2010, Republicans have pledged to repeal and replace President Obama’s Affordable Care Act — promising a legislative backflip that would please conservatives who despise the law’s every word andmoderates who want to keep some of its benefits.Read full article >>

SECRETARY OF State John F. Kerry was in Cairo on Aug. 2 for a “U.S.-Egypt Strategic Dialogue,” the first in six years. Mr. Kerry offered some sunny bromides. “We are confident,” he declared, “that Egypt has really good reason to ensure that the fundamental rights of its citizens are protected, that vital principles such as due process and freedom of press and association are cherished, and that women are empowered, and that every Egyptian has the right to participate peacefully within a truly democratic... Читать дальше...