Новости за 26.06.2015

Multiple media outlets are reporting that one of the convicted killers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in upstate New York earlier this month has been shot and killed.The Buffalo News, the New York Post and the New York Times were among those reporting Friday afternoon that Richard Matt was killed by law enforcement officers on the 21st day of an intensive manhunt that began June 6, when officials at Clinton Correctional Facility discovered that Matt and David Sweat were missing.Read full... Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Obama in remembering the life of slain pastor Rev. Clementa Pinckney delivered an impassioned call on Friday for unity and racial understanding.Thousands of people packed an arena at the College of Charleston to pay their respects to Pinckney who was killed with eight other worshippers at the historic Emanuel AME Church. Obama played to the role of both pastor and president during his eulogy, leading the crowd in a loud and joyful rendition of “Amazing Grace.”Read full... Читать дальше...

A deeply divided Supreme Court on Friday delivered a historic victory for gay rights, ruling 5 to 4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry no matter where they live.The court’s action rewarded years of legal work by same-sex marriage advocates and marked the culmination of an unprecedented upheaval in public opinion and the nation’s jurisprudence.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a historic victory for gay rights, ruling 5 to 4 that the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry no matter where they live and that states may no longer reserve the right only for heterosexual couples.Read full article >>

A peeved Donald Trump probably wishes he could fire Univision President Randy Falco for severing ties with him after the real-estate tycoon insulted Mexican immigrants during his presidential campaign announcement.Read full article >>

Pope Francis will meet with inmates in a Philadelphia prison gym, poor migrants at a D.C. church — where he may serve them lunch — and disadvantaged youth at an East Harlem elementary school, according to a working itinerary of his visit this fall to the United States that was shared with The Washington Post. Read full article >>

BEIRUT — Militants beheaded, bombed and gunned down victims on three continents on Friday, killing more than 60 people and raising fears that a global surge of terror strikes could be imminent.There was no immediate reason to believe that the disparate attacks — at a factory in France, a beach resort in Tunisia and a mosque in Kuwait — were connected. Read full article >>

The most forceful opponents of same-sex marriage promised Friday to “resist” the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing those marriages nationwide. But, in many states, it was unclear how far the people with the power to defy that ruling — state and county officials with authority over marriage licenses — were willing to go.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court's ruled today that state bans on gay marriage are unconstitutional, a 5-4 opinion that will legalize gay marriage across the land. The decision, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, was joined by  justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomajor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Dissents were written by Chief Justice Roberts and justices Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia and Samuel Alito.Read full article >>

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday legalizing same-sex marriage across the country has confronted the Republican Party with a choice: to rally the conservative base by continuing to fight, or take the loss and move on.Read full article >>

Earlier this week, I published a column that upset a lot of waiters. At its heart, the piece was about a decision that restaurants are faced with: Should we encourage our wait staff to clear plates as soon as customers are finished with them, or wait until everyone at a table is done eating?Read full article >>

BEIRUT — Two gunmen killed at least 27 people at a popular seaside resort in Tunisia on Friday, just hours after the Islamic State asserted responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing at a Kuwaiti mosque packed with Shiite worshipers.Read full article >>

LYON, France — An attacker previously linked to Islamist extremists stormed an American-affiliated gas factory Friday and left a severed head staked at its gates, officials said, in an assault described by the country’s president as a “pure terrorist attack.”Read full article >>

Today's Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50 states completely undermines America's democratic process.That's the bold statement Chief Justice John Roberts made in his principal dissent. In one day, Roberts said, the court has basically transformed the societal institution that has held together humanity for millennia.Read full article >>

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a bomb attack at a Shiite mosque that was packed for Ramadan on Friday in Kuwait. Sixteen people were killed and 179 were wounded in the attack, according to the Associated Press.Read full article >>

It exploded seconds after takeoff, the majesty of a rocket launch erupting suddenly into a shrapnel-spewing fireball. Then, months later, another unmanned launch went catastrophically awry: A Russian rocket spun wildly out of control after it reached orbit, eventually burning up in the atmosphere as it crashed back to Earth. Read full article >>

If there is one piece of advice that financial advisers seem nearly unanimous on, it’s Social Security and when you should take it. If you can, wait till you’re 70. You could double your monthly check.Read full article >>

One of the arguments against the liberalization of marijuana laws appeals to our environmental sensibilities: many illegal grow operations happen on public land, outside the regulatory purview of the Environmental Protection Agency, and they can have devastating consequences for the surrounding landscape.Read full article >>

On a remote part of the southeastern Alaskan coastline, amid a landscape of sheer cliffs and snaking inlets that could easily be the setting for a Tolkien novel, a sightseeing floatplane crashed into a granite rock face Thursday, killing all nine people on board.Read full article >>

Public health officials may soon be able to screen patients for Ebola at border crossings and hospitals with a finger-prick blood test that takes mere minutes.The development of the rapid diagnostic test, reported in The Lancet Thursday, represents a significant victory for scientists around the world who have been experimenting over the past year with all manner of vaccines, treatments and other ways of eradicating the virus.Read full article >>

Its nickname is “Whole Paycheck” — but Whole Foods’ high prices were generally thought to be part of its luxury mystique, not wrongdoing or mislabeling.But now that New York City’s Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) is investigating the grocery chain for “systemic overcharging for pre-packaged foods,” that may change.Read full article >>

BEIRUT — The purported theft of confidential Saudi documents that have been released by WikiLeaks bears the hallmarks of Iranian hackers linked to cyberattacks in more than a dozen countries, including the United States, according to cybersecurity experts and Middle East analysts.Read full article >>

The State Department said Thursday that it could not locate “all or part” of 15 e-mails provided last week to the House Select Committee on Benghazi by Sidney Blumenthal from his exchanges with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.Read full article >>

Even as Republicans rose in a chorus of outrage Thursday over the Supreme Court’s refusal to gut the Affordable Care Act, party leaders were privately relieved.Republicans were spared the challenge of having to come up with a solution for the 6.4 million Americans — most of them in conservative states — who might have found their health insurance unaffordable had the court gone the other way.Read full article >>

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a key part of the Affordable Care Act that provides health insurance subsidies to all qualifying Americans, awarding a major victory to President Obama and validating his most prized domestic achievement.Read full article >>