Новости за 20.08.2015

A day after Gawker alleged in a report that Josh Duggar had paid for an account on the infidelity site Ashley Madison, Duggar — the oldest child of the family famous for the now-canceled TLC show “19 Kids and Counting” — said in a statement posted to the family website that he has “been the biggest hypocrite ever.”Read full article >>

It took less than a year for America's factory output to rebound from the 1991 recession. It took 3½ years to bounce back from the 2001 recession. Now, six years clear of the Great Recession, manufacturing output still hasn't returned to the pre-crisis levels it reached in 2007, according to revised economic data from the Federal Reserve.Read full article >>

Investigators for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will recommend that Caitlyn Jenner face a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge in connection with a crash she was involved in last February.Read full article >>

BRUSSELS — Greek Prime Mini­ster Alexis Tsipras resigned Thursday, calling snap elections in his economically embattled nation in a bid to combat dissent within his own party.The decision injected fresh uncertainty into Greece’s turbulent economics. The nation last month narrowly escaped being cast out of the euro currency zone and instead took on a new round of austerity in exchange for its third bailout in five years.Read full article >>

This story has been updated.KEENE, N.H. — A feistier, combative Jeb Bush said Thursday that he doesn't believe the term "anchor babies" is offensive and blamed Democrats for perpetuating the idea that it's a loaded term.Read full article >>

CAIRO — The Islamic State claimed a massive car bombing on Thursday that targeted security forces here in the Egyptian capital in what the militant group deemed as retaliation for a deadly government operation against its fighters.Read full article >>

Now that two women are graduating from the legendary Ranger school, can we get back to reality?Yes, it is impressive that these women conquered the Army’s 62-day equivalent of the men’s Hunger Games, crawling, walking and running over mountains, into the air and through swamps.Read full article >>

Former president Jimmy Carter said that the cancer doctors discovered earlier this year on his liver has also been found on his brain. Carter, 90, said he will receive his first radiation treatment for the disease Thursday afternoon.Read full article >>

CAIRO — The Islamic State claimed Thursday it carried out a massive car bombing that targeted Egyptian security forces in Cairo, calling the operation revenge for the deaths of some of its members earlier this year. Read full article >>

Danny is undergoing a period of intensification despite the harsh, dry air that surrounds it in the Atlantic Ocean.

Tim Howard’s year-long sabbatical from the U.S. national soccer team is over, and the star goalkeeper is scheduled to rejoin the squad in Washington ahead of the Sept. 4 friendly against Peru at RFK Stadium.Read full article >>

Well, that didn't take long.Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the small company whose polarizing pill to treat low sex drive in women was approved Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration, has been purchased by Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals for approximately $1 billion.Read full article >>

Donald Trump's big immigration plan has been described alternatively as a "good start," "clueless" and havoc-inducing. And, at least one other candidate, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, co-signed what may the Trump plan's most controversial and improbable feature: putting an end to automatic U.S. citizenship at birth.Read full article >>

California’s drought was spawned by natural weather variations that have bedeviled the West throughout recorded history.But a new study released Thursday says human-caused global warming is worsening the natural phenomenon. The study by Columbia University’s Earth Institute isn’t the first to say warming has played a key role in fueling California’s dry conditions,  but it’s the first to measure its impact, predicting that it increased the problem by as much as 25 percent.Read full article >>

You know the scene: A forlorn young woman walks to the fridge, grabs a pint of Ben & Jerry’s and eats straight from the container, dripping spoon in hand. The audience gets the message loud and clear: This girl’s been dumped.Read full article >>

CAIRO — The Islamic State claimed Thursday it carried out a massive car bombing that targeted Egyptian security forces in Cairo, calling the operation revenge for the deaths of some of its members earlier this year. Read full article >>

CAIRO — A car bomb targeting security forces exploded in the Egyptian capital early Thursday morning, the Interior Ministry said, shaking buildings across the city raising fears of an increasingly brazen insurgency that has stepped up attacks in Cairo. Six policemen were injured in the attack, the ministry said.Read full article >>

Jared Fogle, the fat-shedding “Subway guy” and former face of the world’s largest restaurant chain, agreed Wednesday to a plea deal for possessing child pornography and having sex with underage girls, a precipitous fall for an American everyman held up as a model for healthy living.Read full article >>

In response to an unsparing audit by its watchdog, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has flipped its stance and now says it is urging housing authorities nationwide to evict tenants who earn too much to qualify for government subsidies.Read full article >>

If you were a psychiatrist and a chronically depressed patient told you he wanted to die, what would you do?In Belgium, you might prescribe this vulnerable, desperate person a fatal dose of sodium thiopental.Read full article >>

We could wearily shrug, say “Oh, well,” and economize waste and annoyance by just building the proposed $142 million Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial. But long after its perpetrators are gone, it would squat there, representing Washington at its worst and proving that we have forgotten how to nurture our national memory with intelligent memorials.Read full article >>

The two women who will graduate Friday from the Army’s Ranger School did not seem particularly destined to break that gender barrier. Both were strong students and gifted athletes, like many others who emerge from high schools across the country every year. But they made their mark on the U.S. military this week by tapping rare levels of determination that intensified over time.Read full article >>

DERRY, N.H. — They showed up by the hundreds. They stood in line under the hot sun for hours. They carried paper cutouts of Donald Trump’s face. They folded into the seats of a high school auditorium here, hard rock music pulsating, and got ready to ask questions of the bombastic billionaire they hope to elect president. This was Trump’s first New Hampshire town hall meeting, and the place was crackling.Read full article >>

DERRY, N.H. — They showed up by the hundreds. They stood in line under the hot sun for hours. They carried paper cut-outs of Donald Trump’s face. They folded into the seats of a high school auditorium here, hard rock music pulsating, and got ready to ask questions of the bombastic billionaire they hope to elect president. This was Trump’s first New Hampshire town hall meeting, and the place was crackling.Read full article >>

ON FRIDAY, two women will stand alongside 94 men — and thousands more in history — to receive their U.S. Army Ranger tabs. For the men, the new pins on their uniforms will represent an opportunity for future service. For the women, the first to graduate from Ranger School, the pins will be little more than badges of honor: Though the female soldiers have passed every test thrown their way, they still cannot audition to join the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. Read full article >>