Новости за 25.06.2015

It’s NBA draft day, and the trade/free agency rumors are flying, as usual. Here’s what people are saying as of early Thursday morning. We’ll update this post as the day goes on.[Fancy Stats: The worst top 5 picks in NBA draft history]Read full article >>

The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Obama administration on the Affordable Care Act, the president's signature domestic policy achievement. In King v. Burwell, the justices rejected a challenge to the financial assistance that millions of Americans are receiving to purchase health insurance by a vote of 6-3. The case was considered the greatest threat to the future of the law commonly known as Obamacare since three years ago, when the court rejected a separate challenge to the law's mandate... Читать дальше...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Thursday that Maryland “will be moving forward” with the Purple Line, providing that Montgomery and Prince George’s counties pick up more of the cost and the light-rail line is modified to save state taxpayers money. Read full article >>

Europe is altering the deal, and Greece better pray it doesn't alter it any further.That, at least, was the message Europe sent with it latest bailout proposal that was really just a restatement of its original one. If Greece wants to stay in the euro, it will have to accept austerity on Europe's terms and not its own. There will be no negotiation, not anymore.Read full article >>

SANLIURFA, Turkey — Islamic State militants stormed into the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane on Thursday, launching suicide attacks and gunning down civilians five months after the extremists were driven from the area with the help of U.S.-led airstrikes.Read full article >>

If Greenland goes, it is becoming clear that it won’t go quietly.Scientists have already documented entire meltwater lakes vanishing in a matter of hours atop the vast Greenland ice sheet, as huge crevasses open beneath them. And now, they’ve cast light on the mechanisms behind another dramatic geophysical effect brought on by the rumbling and melting of this mass of often mile-thick ice: earthquakes.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key provision of the Affordable Care Act and in a broadly written opinion agreed with the Obama administration that government subsidies that make health insurance affordable for millions of Americans should be available to all who qualify.Read full article >>

IN ADVANCE of the Supreme Court taking its third crack at Obamacare, there was feverish speculation. The justices would vote according to their preferred policy outcomes, some said, striking down the subsidies that underpin the policy. Or the court’s conservatives would act to help Republican presidential candidates, preserving the subsidies to prevent a policy disaster for which the GOP would be blamed. Or maybe Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. would do whatever he thought was in the best interests of the institution of the Supreme Court. Читать дальше...

This item has been updated.New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to launch his presidential campaign from the high school he graduated from, according to reports from his home state.Christie will make the announcement on Tuesday at Livingston High School in northern New Jersey, according to Matt Katz, a WNYC radio reporter who has tracked the governor's career for several years. Katz cites "sources familiar with his plans."Read full article >>

Bubbles and fizz float on the surface of “Fresh Dressed,” an exuberant documentary about the history of hip-hop fashion. Young black men swagger through their frayed neighborhoods wearing vintage Ralph Lauren shirts; creative souls show off hand-painted denim jackets; and street-style icons extol the primacy of Lee jeans and Cazal sunglasses on the short list of cool togs.Read full article >>

Even as Republicans rose in a chorus of outrage Thursday over the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to gut the unpopular Affordable Care Act, party leaders were privately breathing a sigh of relief.Had the court gone the other way, Republicans would have faced their most serious governing challenge since taking control of both houses of Congress earlier this year.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s subsidy scheme is a big win for the law’s proponents and a dramatic rebuff of a challenge that posed the most severe threat to the law since the 2012 challenge to the Constitutionality of the individual mandate.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key tool that the Obama administration and civil rights groups have used to fight housing discrimination, saying policies do not have to use intentional discrimination in order to be illegal.Read full article >>

Ida Sievers, who was diagnosed with leukemia last fall, had been praying that she wouldn’t lose the $620-a-month government subsidy for her health insurance. So she was delighted Thursday when she learned that the Supreme Court had ruled that the financial aid was legal and could continue. Read full article >>

Civil rights groups and the Obama administration won a major victory Thursday as the Supreme Court upheld a tool that advocates argue is essential to fighting housing discrimination and patterns of segregation that have persisted in America for decades.Read full article >>

Planet Fitness may be one of the strangest gym chains on earth. Decorated in purple-and-yellow, the gym stocks a plastic jug of free Tootsie Rolls and hosts free "bagel mornings" and "pizza nights" every month. To combat "gymtimidation," trainers will sound a blaring siren if a member grunts or drops a weight, which they call a "lunk alarm."Read full article >>

On Wednesday, Bobby Jindal became the first Indian-American to be a serious candidate for president.The Louisiana Republican governor's bid also adds another little-known first: He's the first presidential candidate (that we know of) to participate in an apparent exorcism.Read full article >>

When I say “food for healthy bones,” what springs to mind? Milk, of course. That connection is taught to us early on, and rightfully so. Milk and the products made from it — yogurt, cheese, etc. — are packed not only with calcium, but several bone-beneficial nutrients, including protein, magnesium, potassium and, if fortified, vitamin D. But there is a lot more to the bone-health nutrition story than we learned in elementary school. In fact, there are several foods that you might be surprised, even shocked... Читать дальше...

THE BIG IDEA:— Marco Rubio is playing to win The Sheldon Adelson Primary. The Florida senator, who has relentlessly sought the billionaire casino mogul’s backing for 2016, co-sponsored a bill yesterday afternoon to ban online gaming. It is not only Adelson’s top legislative priority, it could significantly boost his company’s bottom line. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), another presidential hopeful who has assiduously courted Adelson over their shared hawkishness on foreign policy, is the lead Republican... Читать дальше...

The first funeral of the “Emanuel Nine” — the church members killed in the shooting massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — began Thursday morning with songs and Scripture readings at a church in North Charleston, where the body of Ethel Lance lay in a casket amid floral displays.Read full article >>

For three years, more than $43 million the Department of Veterans Affairs had set aside to inform veterans about their benefits sat in an account, not a penny spent, until an agency financial manager happened to notice.Read full article >>

In a quiet bedroom community in New Jersey, past the quaint mom-and-pop shops that line downtown, a million-dollar dream home buried behind decades-old trees sits empty. The new owners who bought it last summer are scared to move in and no one else seems to want to buy it from them.Read full article >>

When Ben Affleck volunteered to be featured on the PBS genealogy program “Finding Your Roots” last year, he was hoping to find “the roots of his family’s interest in social justice.”Researchers did turn up plenty for the actor-cum-activist to be pleased about: a mother who was a member of the Freedom Riders, an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War.Read full article >>

A fire that engulfed a small, predominantly black church in Charlotte, N.C., was set on purpose, local officials said Wednesday. Now they are trying to determine whether the act of arson was a hate crime.Read full article >>

Reality star Bobbi Kristina Brown is now in hospice care. Her aunt Pat Houston broke the news in a statement reported by the Associated Press.“Despite the great medical care at numerous facilities, Bobbi Kristina Brown’s condition has continued to deteriorate,” the statement read. “As of today, she has been moved into hospice care.”Read full article >>