Новости за 21.06.2015

A standout high school athlete in peak health has been killed after contracting a rare strain of plague this month, according to Colorado health officials.Authorities suspect Taylor Gaes, 16, contracted bubonic plague from fleas on a dead rodent or other animal on his family’s rural property near Fort Collins, Colo., according to the Colorodoan.Read full article >>

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The church beloved as “Mother Emanuel” reopened its doors Sunday morning, four days after an unspeakable tragedy turned it into a crime scene.Hundreds lined up early Sunday in the hot Charleston sun to slowly enter the sanctuary. The the organist played “Come to Jesus,” and the church bells rang out with “Amazing Grace.”Read full article >>

A 24-hour manhunt in New Orleans has ended after police arrested a prisoner who is accused of fatally shooting a veteran police officer who was transporting him in a police vehicle on Saturday.Update: #NOPD arrested 33-year-old Travis Boys this morning near the intersection of Reynes and St. Claude. #NOPDAlertRead full article >>

In a speech at a California fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee last week, President Obama offered a remarkably candid assessment of how he has tried — and failed — to change Washington. Two paragraphs, in particular, stand out.Read full article >>

The solstice means the hours of daylight will shorten even as weather heats up.

If there's one subject on which you just can't win as a Republican politician these days, it seems to be the Confederate flag.After the racially motivated Charleston shootings this week and a Supreme Court case regarding the flag, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is facing pressure to take down the flag, which is still flying high at a Confederate War memorial on state house grounds. She hasn't heeded the calls, and her staff says it's up to the general assembly. Her fellow South Carolinian and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Читать дальше...

Sen. Ted Cruz, then a newly-declared presidential candidate, was getting ready to give a speech in New Hampshire. But first he had a more important task: trying to get his young daughters to eat breakfast.Read full article >>

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis was about to take a major step backing the science behind ­human-driven global warming, and Philippe de Larminat was determined to change his mind. A French doubter who authored a book arguing that solar activity — not greenhouse gases — was driving global warming, de Larminat sought a spot at a climate summit in April sponsored by the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Nobel laureates would be there. So would U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. economist Jeffrey... Читать дальше...

Pluto is so far away (3 billion miles) and so small (about two-thirds the size of our moon) that we’ve never had a good look at it, not even with the Hubble Space Telescope. In Hubble images, Pluto has always been a tiny, pixelated blob.Read full article >>

Pluto is so far away (3 billion miles) and so small (about ­two-thirds the size of our moon) that we’ve never had a good look at it, not even with the Hubble Space Telescope. In Hubble images, Pluto has always been a tiny, pixelated blob.Read full article >>

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The glow of their phones lighted up their faces in the night. Terrell White and his friends kept looking down at the updates, trying to separate rumor from conspiracy theory from actual fact. It was 9 o’clock — 24 hours after a suspected white gunman had killed nine black people at church two miles to the south — and here on King Street, the struggle to understand was underway.Read full article >>

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Nestled in a sea of flowers at the solemn memorial outside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston is a handwritten message to South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley: “Take the flag down. It hurts us.”Read full article >>

Max Scherzer retired the first 26 Pittsburgh Pirates in order. One remained, and pinch-hitter Jose Tabata was one strike away from becoming the final out of the first perfect game in Washington Nationals history Saturday. Tabata put up a fight. Scherzer threw an inside slider, but it didn’t break like normal. Instead, it grazed Tabata’s dropping elbow, and the frenzied Nationals Park crowd moaned. Scherzer took a long look to the sky, dropped his head, then called for the next ball and regrouped. Читать дальше...

Tucked in the woods 30 miles north of Washington is a plant packed with energy-guzzling machines that can make even an environmentalist’s heart sing — giant conveyor belts, sorters and crushers saving a thousand tons of paper, plastic and other recyclables from reaching landfills each day.Read full article >>