Новости за 22.06.2015

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan disclosed Monday that he has been diagnosed with late stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which he described as “a very advanced and very aggressive” form of cancer. The 59-year-old Republican, who was sworn into office in January after winning an upset victory over then-Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown (D), described the diagnosis as a challenge he was determined to confront and a hill he would have to climb. Read full article >>

MADISON, Wis. — To build a war chest for his all-but-official presidential campaign, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been inviting wealthy prospective donors here for a series of private, leisurely dinners — 10 to 20 people at a time — at the top of the Edgewater, a luxury hotel with sweeping views of this capital city.Read full article >>

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — ­Taliban forces were less than four miles from this strategic northern city Monday after seizing control of two key districts over the weekend, triggering fears that they could capture their first Afghan city since U.S.-backed forces toppled the hard-line Islamist regime in late 2001.Read full article >>

The seven young men sitting before some of Capitol Hill’s most powerful lawmakers weren’t graduate students or junior analysts from some think tank. No, Space Rogue, Kingpin, Mudge and the others were hackers who had come from the mysterious environs of cyberspace to deliver a terrifying warning to the world.Read full article >>

Might the first recorded Ebola outbreak have occurred not in Africa less than 40 years ago but, rather, more than 2,400 years ago, in ancient Greece? That’s what one professor of infectious diseases and history now suggests.Read full article >>

This will be the last article The Washington Post writes about the 2016 campaign. There's no point, you see, for we already know how it turns out -- thanks to the combined efforts of three New York City psychics.Read full article >>

Pete Rose long ago admitted that he bet on baseball but insisted he did so only as a manager. But according to evidence uncovered by ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” Rose bet extensively on baseball during the final year of his playing career in 1986.Read full article >>

The head of a white supremacist group cited by accused Charleston, S.C., gunman Dylann Roof made thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to prominent Republican candidates in recent years, including three seeking the GOP presidential nomination.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Depression-era government program that allows the government to take raisins from growers to boost market prices is an unconstitutional taking of private property.Read full article >>

JERUSALEM — A U.N.-backed commission presented findings Monday suggesting that both Israelis and Palestinians violated international law and committed possible war crimes during the Gaza war last summer that left thousands dead and wide swaths of the coastal enclave in ruins.Read full article >>

KABUL — A suicide car bomber followed by insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades launched an audacious attack on the Afghan parliament Monday as it was meeting to endorse a new defense minister, forcing frightened lawmakers to flee the building. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility. Read full article >>

LONDON — Negotiators made progress toward an 11th-hour agreement to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debt and crashing out of the euro zone, but not enough to seal a deal on Monday at a crisis summit, officials said after talks in Brussels. Read full article >>

On Monday, as the Afghan parliament gathered to endorse new Defense Minister Masood Stanekzai, a car driven by a suicide bomber exploded outside. After the initial attack, gunmen attempted to storm the building.Read full article >>

Back in April, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first-ever image of Pluto in near-true color. It was pixelated and tiny, but for the first time humans got a glimpse of what the dwarf planet might really look like. Now NASA has released the first moving color images, showing that Pluto and its largest moon Charon have very different colors -- even though they're locked in a close orbital dance.Read full article >>

As early as today, the Supreme Court will hand down its ruling in King v. Burwell, potentially invalidating subsidies for millions of people in three dozen mostly-Republican states. That could cause insurance markets to implode over time and potentially even lead to economic disruptions as well.Read full article >>

President Obama made a startling declaration about race relations in America in a popular podcast Monday — and it’s not exactly what he said, but how he said it.Appearing on the popular podcast “WTF With Marc Maron,” the president spoke candidly about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws in American culture, saying he believes they remain “part of our DNA.” He used the n-word to make his point.Read full article >>

The Internet makes it easy to compare prices for a lot of things -- you can shop around for the best deal on shoes, or research what salary you should be asking for in a job interview. Now, it's also helping people make sure they're not getting ripped off on the black market.Read full article >>

The heavily scrutinized assessment of women attending Army Ranger School could be nearing its end soon, and it comes with a dichotomy: senior service officials are laudatory of their efforts, while some of the women who washed out question whether they got a fair shake.Read full article >>

Mexican leaders were quick to condemn last week's statements from self-professed master wall-builder Donald Trump, after he vowed to put a "great, great" one on the U.S. southern border if elected president.Read full article >>

Google has received tons of gushy press for its bubble-shaped self-driving car, though it's still years from the showroom floor. But for years John Deere has been selling tractors that practically drive themselves for use on farms in America's heartland, where there are few pesky pedestrians or federal rules to get in the way.Read full article >>

Scores of people drank the liquor early last week, most of them poor residents of a Mumbai slum called Malvani, willing to pay for a bottle of cheaply made moonshine that could have contained any number of illegal additives because it cost almost nothing.Read full article >>

KABUL —Armed insurgents launched an audacious attack on the Afghan parliament Monday as it was meeting to endorse a new defense minister, forcing frightened lawmakers to flee the building. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility. Read full article >>

A vast chunk of space rock crashes into the Yucatan Peninsula, darkening the sky with debris and condemning three-quarters of Earth’s species to extinction. A convergence of continents disrupts the circulation of the oceans, rendering them stagnant and toxic to everything that lives there. Vast volcanic plateaus erupt, filling the air with poisonous gas. Glaciers subsume the land and lock up the oceans in acres of ice.Read full article >>

“Over 40 years, we now define pollutants as dirt and your back yard as a navigable stream. It wouldn’t be funny if we weren’t putting people in jail for it. Guy named Robert Lucas, down at the southern part of Mississippi, 10 years ago was 70 years old. He was put in prison for 10 years. He just got out. Ten years without parole. Ten years without early release. He was convicted of a RICO conspiracy. RICO’s something you’re supposed to be going after gangsters for. You know what his conspiracy was? Читать дальше...

Well, that was fast.In the age of lightning-quick streaming music services, even what were once epic artist standoffs are now instant affairs, apparently.On Sunday morning, Taylor Swift took to Tumblr to announce that she would be withholding her latest album, the platinum-selling “1989,” from Apple’s soon-to-launch subscription music service.Read full article >>