Новости за 18.11.2015

The Islamic State has claimed three major attacks recently. This has led to a reassessment of the group that had been focused on building its caliphate in the Middle East.

The state's "fetal assault" law punishes women whose babies are born with drug withdrawal symptoms. Proponents say the law spurs women to seek treatment, while opponents say it deters them.

Another winning dance-floor monster, from the finest cartoon canine in the world of electro-house.

Sensors that work inside the body are gaining new skills. The latest version can track heart rate and respiratory rate, as well as temperature, as it travels through the digestive system.

Alongside dreamy vocals and psychedelic guitar, Spires taps into the unsettling side of '70s public information films in the new video for "In Between."

Roughly 133 billion pounds of food go uneaten each year — much of it still edible. So for a half-year, the two filmmakers behind Just Eat It vowed to eat nothing but food entering the waste stream.

On Thursday, November 19th, to mark the one-year anniversary of the most popular Tiny Desk Concert ever and the 10th anniversary of his debut album, T-Pain will play our Washington, D.C. headquarters.

A new stage play finds Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf at the controls of an oddly horror-free version of the Stephen King novel.

Muslim residents of Brussels are holding a rally in the city to protest the Paris attacks and proclaim their opposition to the so-called Islamic State.

Watch the cathartic, energetic Icelandic rock band perform "Salt" live in the studio.

The city saw its 300th killing of the year over the weekend; since then, gun violence killed five more people.

One year after the death of Jonathan Athon, the bassist's last recordings with the metal band Black Tusk are set for release. "God's On Vacation" sounds just as burly, unrelenting and trashy as ever.

Sanders is set to give a speech Thursday explaining Democratic Socialism to voters. There's a long history of big political speeches designed to take on and neutralize a lingering concern of voters.

Locations have been secret until now. Ghost city hunters are using smart phones and GPS receivers to track down the infamous empty housing complexes.

Your Song Changed My Life will explore the moment that musical obsession became a call to action, featuring interviews with musicians from Smokey Robinson to St. Vincent.

Jay Inslee is declining to join the many governors who say they don't want Syrian refugees within their borders.

French planes bombed the Islamic State's self-declared capital Raqqa in Syria this week. The U.S. gave them a target list. Steve Inskeep talks to Anne Bernard of The New York Times, who's in Beirut.

After the early morning raid in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, French President Francois Hollande reminded everyone that France is at war with terrorists.

Kevin Barry's hallucinatory new novel imagines John Lennon in 1978, at his lowest, wandering around Ireland (with a very mysterious tour guide) in search of a private island he bought but can't find.

The candidates have mostly stayed away from discussing the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. That's quickly changing.

The extradition of drug kingpin Caesar Gastelum Serrano to the U.S. signals Mexico's new willingness to send accused narco-traffickers across the border.

At one of the memorials to the Paris attacks, two strangers met and started a friendship. Both had witnessed the carnage at the Bataclan theater, and both are struggling to move on with their lives.

A bullet ran through 19-year-old Emma Parkinson's body, from her thigh to her hip. Her aunt told ABC Australia that Emma is doing much better now that her mother is by her side.

Researchers find that wage cuts endured by workers whose peers do not have their wages cut are much more painful and detrimental to morale than wage cuts that are experienced by everyone on a team.

It's difficult for regulators to stop companies that flout the Do Not Call Registry. Robocalls can come from overseas, making them hard to regulate, and they often spoof caller IDs.