Новости за 23.07.2016

A wildfire blazing 35 miles north of Los Angeles has grown to 11,000 acres, prompting hundreds of mandatory and voluntary evacuations. The Sand Fire in Santa Clarita started as a brush fire Friday afternoon and is 10% contained. Fighting the fire is a challenge, said Nathan Judy, fire information officer with the Angeles National Forest, […]

A Colorado town’s marijuana-in-the-water mystery didn’t check out after all. Laboratory testing showed there is no THC — the principal psychoactive chemical in cannabis — in the town’s water supply, contrary to what field tests had shown earlier this week, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday. The announcement brought the curtain down the town’s […]

In choosing Tim Kaine as her running mate, Hillary Clinton has selected a no-frills politician widely seen as a “safe” choice. Kaine would be the first to say it, calling himself “boring” during a recent interview. But the Virginia senator is not without his quirks. He is one of only 20 people in U.S. history […]

Tim Kaine took the stage alongside Hillary Clinton in Miami Saturday and offered his first greeting to voters as a vice presidential nominee — in Spanish. “Bienvenidos a todos,” the Virginia senator said, a phrase that translates to “welcome to everyone.” Clinton and Kaine’s first joint appearance as running mates at a campaign rally here […]

Police in Georgia were searching Saturday for a man suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl before leaving her in a parking lot on a busy road. Friday afternoon, police responded to a report of a child wandering alone near a strip mall in Stone Mountain, said DeKalb County police spokesman Maj. Stephen […]

Hillary Clinton stepped onto the stage in Miami Saturday midday to introduce to the country a trusted friend as her new running mate: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine. Clinton and Kaine made their first joint appearance at a campaign rally here at Florida International University, marking the official unveiling of the Democratic ticket that will face […]

Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren continued their ongoing Twitter feud Saturday in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s decision to tap Tim Kaine as her running mate. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, started the latest exchange Saturday morning when he again referred to the Massachusetts senator as “Pocahontas,” a reference to her claimed Native American […]

Hillary Clinton is hoping her decision to tap Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate will go down in history as a move that helped her capture the presidency, but it’s already rife with historical implications. Here’s a look at why Kaine’s addition to the ticket is notable in US history. Sitting senator Kaine’s […]

Suspects in Turkey can now be detained for up to 30 days without charges and the government can listen in on all conversations they have with their lawyers under a decree issued by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, according to the Resmi Gazette, an official government publication. It is the first measure implemented under new powers […]

ISIS is claiming responsibility for killing dozens of people during a peaceful demonstration by a minority group in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday. “I saw tens of people laying down in blood around me and hundreds of people running away from the scene,” said Fatima Faizi, an Afghan freelance journalist. So far, 80 bodies and more than […]

The teen gunman who killed nine people in a shooting rampage in Munich on Friday was a mentally troubled individual who had extensively researched spree killings and had no apparent links to ISIS, police said. Speaking at a press conference in the southern German city Saturday, police officials said the 18-year-old lone attacker — who […]

A federal judge on Friday issued a tentative ruling to deny a bid to dismiss a lawsuit by unhappy customers of Trump University. U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel made the ruling from the bench in San Diego, California, with more motions to be heard in the coming weeks. The case — one of two class-action […]

The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for killing dozens of people and wounding more than 100 during a peaceful demonstration in Kabul by a minority group Saturday. “I saw tens of people laying down in blood around me and hundreds of people running away from the scene,” said Fatima Faizi, an Afghan freelance journalist. Emergency, […]

[Breaking news update, 9:18 a.m.] ISIS’ media wing, Amaq, says two ISIS fighters detonated their suicide belts among a Shiite gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan. The statement has been reposted online by ISIS supporters. [Previous story, published at 9:14 a.m.] An explosion Saturday killed dozens of people and wounded more than 100 during a peaceful demonstration […]

This weekend, the Democratic Party finds itself at a crossroads. Before the start of its national convention, the Democratic rules committee will meet in Philadelphia and make a choice: Keep the current superdelegate system or not. Some will argue this debate is arcane. However, nothing could be further from the truth. On the one hand, […]

In accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president, Donald Trump’s speech purposefully played to multiple layers of racial anxiety (ones that, alternately, cast undocumented Latinos, Black Lives Matter demonstrators and Muslims as foils straight from central casting) that perfectly captured the mood of the Republican National Convention. Over the course of the week, speaker after […]

[Breaking news update, published at 8:48 a.m. ET] German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed her condolences over Friday’s deadly shooting attack in Munich in which nine people were killed. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on Saturday, she said: “We are mourning those who will never go back to their families.” Addressing the bereaved […]

Pop star Rihanna will be bringing her acting talents to the small screen when she takes on a key role in the final season of “Bates Motel.” Her casting was revealed Friday at the Comic-Con International convention in San Diego, where the cast and crew of the show held a panel discussion. The show’s official […]

A gunman opened fire at a Munich McDonald’s and then at a shopping mall, killing nine people Friday evening. So far, there are more questions after yet another rampage in Europe. What happened: The gunman started shooting at the McDonald’s, then moved across the street to the Olympia shopping mall on Friday. Hours after the […]

A teenage gunman killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a shopping district in southern Germany — before police found his body on a nearby street, authorities said. The 18-year-old stormed a McDonald’s outside the Olympia mall in Munich on Friday evening, police Chief Hubertus Andrae said. The shooting in the nation’s third-largest city […]

A teenage gunman opened fire at a busy shopping district in southern Germany — killing nine people before police found his body on a nearby street, authorities said. The 18-year-old stormed a McDonald’s outside the Olympia mall in Munich on Friday evening, police Chief Hubertus Andrae said. The shooting rampage in the nation’s third-largest city […]

A teenage gunman opened fire at a busy shopping district in southern Germany — killing nine people before police found his body on a nearby street, authorities said. The 18-year-old stormed a McDonald’s outside the Olympia mall in Munich on Friday evening, police Chief Hubertus Andrae said. The shooting rampage in the nation’s third-largest city […]

A Colorado Navy veteran who identifies as neither male nor female has taken the State Department to court for refusing to administer a gender-neutral passport. U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson heard arguments in the lawsuit this week, according to a clerk of the court. No ruling has been issued. Dana Zzyym, 58, was born […]

In case you didn’t hear any fanfare late Friday night when Hillary Clinton announced her vice presidential running mate, that’s because Tim Kaine is not a fanfare type of candidate. He is, by definition, meh. Then again, running against the irrational and unpredictable Donald Trump and his out of touch right wing running mate Mike […]

California Gov. Jerry Brown denied parole to former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten, saying that the murder convict “currently poses an unreasonable danger to society.” Earlier this year, the Board of Parole Hearings had recommended her release. Van Houten and other followers of Charles Manson were convicted for the 1969 murders of supermarket executive […]