Новости за 16.08.2016

De Amerikaanse regering heeft vijftien gevangenen vrijgelaten uit het omstreden detentiecentrum in Guantánamo Bay. Twaalf Jemenieten en drie Afghanen zijn maandag overgedragen aan de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Armed men abducted 10 to 12 presumed members of a crime gang who appeared to be celebrating at an upscale restaurant in the popular Mexican beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta, authorities said Monday.

Russia’s boxer Evgeny Tishchenko has won a gold medal in the men’s heavy 91 kg finals during the Rio Olympics.

Being an Olympian is a full-time job. When it's literally your job to perform at Olympic-level standards, staying in shape and eating right is just the baseline. In fact,...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Simone Biles felt her right foot slip. Then her left.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for an ideological "screening" test for all people entering the country as part of his plan to combat terrorism and Islamic State. He also called for temporarily suspending immigration from volatile regions of the world. Photo: AP

Essential Politics: Ban on the release of body camera video showing officer's death clears Senate, actors may keep their age a secret on job websites Aug. 15, 2016, 4:41 p.m. Welcome to Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. Here's what we're watching: A...

Retired four-star General Barry McCaffrey said many parts of Donald Trump's speech on immigration and terror were sheer nonsense.

At the end of June, Biram Dah Abeid, an anti-slavery activist from Mauritania who has led that country’s most successful abolitionist movement, arrived in the United States. He had been here before, to accept the United Nations Human Rights Prize for the work of his Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, in 2013, and to meet with organizations sympathetic to his cause. But this occasion was different. For the past eighteen months, Abeid had been in prison in Mauritania, along with a fellow-activist... Читать дальше...

2016 Summer Olympics live coverage: U.S. gymnast Laurie Hernandez wins silver in beam; Simone Biles earns bronze Aug. 15, 2016, 4:41 p.m. Follow all the action of the 2016 Rio Olympics as our crew of reporters and photographers brings you all the action every day. In this spot, we will also highlight...

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A decade after the first cracks of the Financial Crisis appeared – and six years since the Dodd-Frank law was enacted to prevent another Financial Crisis and to pave the way for resolving too-big-to-fail banks when they fail – Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and “some other banks” are still trying to delay implementation of the new rules.

These banks are asking the Fed to grant them an additional grace period of five years to comply with the so-called Volcker rule... Читать дальше...

Prophets of Rage are kicking off their North American tour on Friday, so it’s a fitting time for the Rage Against the Machine-Cypress Hill-...

An Arab coalition air raid hit a Yemeni hospital on Monday, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 19, just 48 hours after strikes that killed children, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. The United States and Amnesty International separately condemned the attack. "Once again, a fully functional hospital full of patients and MSF national and international staff members, was bombed in a war that has shown no respect for medical facilities or patients," Teresa Sancristoval, of MSF's Emergency Unit in Yemen, said in a statement. Читать дальше...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Kenzo Shirai successfully performed a new trick in the men's vault final at the Rio Olympics on Mond...

Fans are obsessed with their upstart water-polo team, which is led by one of the sport’s legends, and it’s easing the pain being inflicted on the soccer pitch.

ONALASKA — Participants in the Summer Youth Garden Program and their families are invited to attend Clearwater Farm’s Harvest Celebration at 5 p.m. today at Clearwater Farm at 760 Green Coulee Road.

SRINAGAR, India — At least one paramilitary soldier and four suspected rebels were killed in a series of gunbattles in Indian-controlled Kashmir despite a security lockdown in the disputed region Monday as India celebrated the anniversary of its independence from British rule. The Himalayan region has been under curfew for almost six weeks since the largest street protests in years erupted after Indian troops killed a top rebel leader, and security was tightened further in the week preceding India’s Independence Day. Читать дальше...

GB's Jack Laugher puts in a stunning dive at the halfway stage of the men's 3m springboard preliminary to help him qualify for the semi-final.

The State Department wants a chance to review notes and other materials from the FBI's probe of former Secretary Hillary Clinton's email use before any documents are provided to Congress, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Henry Cavill may be donning a black Superman suit for Justice League, according to a photo on his Instagram account! “#Superman,” the 33-year-old actor captioned a photo of a black Superman suit. Fans are now speculating that Henry must be wearing the black suit for Justice League, as the film is currently filming in London, [...]

The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday rejected an appeal by Santa Monica to overturn a recent FAA decision that required the city’s embattled airport to remain open at least until 2023.

UW officials released more details Monday of their request for the 2017-19 state budget, which will go before the Board of Regents on Thursday.

Peter Thiel published an op-ed in the New York Times to muster votes for the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, Recode reports.

The new-age self portrait has pervaded songs, sporting events, award shows and everyday life. There have been selfies at funerals, selfies with homeless people, selfies at concentration camps, Chernobyl and war memorials. Less than a quarter of adults identified selfies — including groupies (selfies with more than one person in them) and similar posed photos — as their favorite type of photo, according to a Harris Poll survey of more than 2,100 adults commissioned by CVS Pharmacy. About half of... Читать дальше...