Новости за 23.06.2015

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The revived debate raging over the Confederate flag  moved inside the South Carolina statehouse Tuesday, as lawmakers agreed to begin discussing whether to remove a flag flying on the grounds of the Capitol.Read full article >>

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The revived debate raging over the Confederate flag  moved inside the South Carolina statehouse Tuesday, as lawmakers agreed to begin discussing whether to remove a flag flying on the grounds of the Capitol.Read full article >>

Dick Van Patten, a onetime juvenile star of Broadway, radio and TV who played the genteel patriarch on the hit 1970s comedy-drama “Eight Is Enough” and proved his versatility in Walt Disney fare and Mel Brooks parodies, died June 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 86.Read full article >>

Dick Van Patten, a onetime juvenile star of Broadway, radio and TV who played the genteel patriarch on the hit 1970s comedy-drama “Eight Is Enough” and proved his versatility in Walt Disney fare and Mel Brooks parodies, died June 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 86.Read full article >>

All 535 members of Congress got Meryl Streep’s autograph delivered straight to their offices Tuesday. She did it for the votes.The Oscar-winning actress penned a letter calling on members of the House and Senate to resurrect the Equal Rights Amendment of 1972, amending the Constitution to include equal rights for women.Read full article >>

Winning can be more complicated than losing when it comes to the law known as “Obamacare.” That’s a reality Republican lawmakers are beginning to mull as the Supreme Court’s term draws to a close.Within a week, the justices are due to rule in King v. Burwell whether federal subsidies can flow through state health insurance exchanges created by the federal government.Read full article >>

As long as we’re on the subject of flags that should and should not be flown in states, let’s take a moment to talk about state flags.Every state flag is wrong. If you don’t believe me, look at them. Here are the 50 worst.Read full article >>

At roughly 9:30 a.m. EDT, a phalanx of lawyers will surround New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in a room at NFL headquarters as he makes his appeal to have the four-game suspension he was given for Deflategate set aside.Read full article >>

A razor-thin Senate vote Tuesday put President Obama on the cusp of claiming victory for his ambitious international trade agenda, clearing the way for legislation granting him “fast track” negotiating powers to potentially reach his desk by week’s end.Read full article >>

The computer upgrade that federal officials tout as having detected — although not prevented — a massive breach of information on federal employees is itself at high risk of failure, according to a new internal audit.Read full article >>

RICHMOND — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe said Tuesday that he wants to phase out a state-sponsored license plate featuring an image of the Confederate flag.At an appearance in Richmond, McAuliffe (D) called the symbol “unnecessarily divisive and hurtful.”Read full article >>

The U.S. government will stop telling families of hostages taken abroad that they could face criminal prosecution if they pay ransom for the release of loved ones, an emotional issue that has arisen in recent cases of Americans captured and later beheaded by the Islamic State group.Read full article >>

Another day, another act of depravity carried out by the extremists of the Islamic State.A story in Agence France-Presse claimed that the militants, who control swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, suspended two boys on a beam by their wrists after they had been caught eating during the holy month of Ramadan.Read full article >>

President Obama scored a long-sought victory for his trade agenda on Tuesday when legislation that would give the administration expanded powers to negotiate international deals cleared a key hurdle in the Senate.Read full article >>

KARACHI, Pakistan — A severe heat wave has killed hundreds here in Pakistan’s largest city, creating a public health emergency that has been exacerbated by a lack of electricity and the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Read full article >>

The fatal smoke calamity in a Metro tunnel Jan. 12 was exacerbated by the transit agency’s slow emergency response, including a critical breakdown in communications and poor coordination among subway workers as they tried to help scores of riders trapped on a train filled with noxious fumes, according to documents made public Tuesday.Read full article >>

Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean “Diddy” Combs was released on bail Monday night, hours after being arrested for allegedly assaulting UCLA assistant football coach Sal Alosi with a kettlebell over an incident involving his son, who is a redshirt junior defensive back for the Bruins.Read full article >>

A U.S. airstrike in Iraq has killed an Islamic State militant suspected of involvement in the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, the Pentagon said Monday.Read full article >>

TALLINN, Estonia —In a move likely to increase tensions with Russia, Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter confirmed Tuesday that the United States would place heavy military equipment in nations stretching from the Baltics to the Balkans.Read full article >>

Let’s get started with this terrific piece by Philip Rucker and Anne Gearan recapping the not-terribly-courageous response from the GOP presidential candidates to the post-Charleston-shooting debate about race and the fate of the Confederate flag in South Carolina:Read full article >>

One year after an explosive Veterans Affairs scandal sparked national outrage, the number of veterans on wait lists to be treated for everything from Hepatitis C to post-traumatic stress is 50 percent higher than at the same time last year, according to VA data.Read full article >>

The other night I was eating a plate of noodles, and enjoying it. I was out to dinner with a friend, hunched over a meal we had been planning for weeks. The restaurant was newly opened and highly regarded. Life was good. And the food was great.Read full article >>

Wall Street may be skeptical that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates this year, but Main Street seems to be getting the message.Data from online real estate company Redfin shows that requests for home tours have spiked more than 40 percent compared to a year ago. And they’re not just lookey-loos: Redfin also shows a 33 percent jump in signed offers from this time a year ago.Read full article >>

President Obama hosted an iftar dinner Monday night to mark the Muslim holiday of Ramadan and to reach out to the roughly 1.5 billion Muslims around the world when much of the Islamic world is struggling with war, terrorism and economic challenges and when the United States remains embroiled in many of those conflicts.Read full article >>

An emotional Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan disclosed Monday that he has been diagnosed with late stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which he called “a very advanced and very aggressive” form of cancer.At a hastily called news conference that felt more like an intimate family meeting, the 59-year-old Republican described the disease as a hurdle that he plans to surmount.Read full article >>