Новости за 28.06.2015

ATHENS — In an ominous sign Sunday that Greece is speeding toward a banking collapse, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced that Greek banks will be closed Monday amid last-ditch discussions about his nation’s economic future. Read full article >>

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Vice President Biden paid a surprise visit to Sunday morning services at Emanuel AME Church here, telling congregants that he came to support them and to help get through his own mourning.Read full article >>

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Vice President Biden paid a surprise visit to services Sunday morning at Emanuel AME Church here, telling congregants that he came to support them and to help get through his own mourning.Read full article >>

VIENNA — The Iran nuclear talks will spill beyond a Tuesday deadline, officials said Sunday as Iran’s foreign minister broke off from the negotiations and flew to Tehran for consultations. A potential agreement to rein in Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief remains elusive in this final round of talks, the culmination of more than 19 months of intense negotiations. Major differences still divide the two sides: Iran on the one hand and six world powers, including the United States, on the other. Читать дальше...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Israeli government wants to force-feed Palestinian prisoners who go on hunger strikes, an extreme medical procedure that Israeli doctors say they will refuse to perform because it is unethical and inhumane.Read full article >>

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The new Israeli government wants to force-feed Palestinian prisoners who go on hunger strikes, an extreme medical procedure that Israeli doctors say they will refuse to perform because it is unethical and inhumane.Read full article >>

AS SETH MacFARLANE himself might croon, with Oscars-stage gusto: “We saw your bombs!”Too few folks are seeing Seth’s recent works, though, to avoid his last two pictures being a box-office bomb (“A Million Ways to Die in the West”) and now, a serious disappointment of a debut (“Ted 2″).Read full article >>

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station exploded a couple of minutes after liftoff Sunday morning. It was the third cargo mission to the space station to be lost in recent months.Read full article >>

A  17-year-old boy is the latest victim in a string of shark attacks along the North Carolina coast, according to news reports.The teenager was swimming with others off the Outer Banks about 4 p.m. Saturday when he sustained injuries from a shark to his right calf, buttocks and both hands, according to a news release posted on the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Facebook Page. He was treated at the scene and transported to a hospital in Norfolk, Va. for further care, officials said.Read full article... Читать дальше...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — The undercover cops didn’t help the vibe, most of all for Moondog. They wore jeans and T-shirts and carried backpacks that made them look almost like everybody else, except not really. They wouldn’t talk to me as they scooped up the spoils of the copyright shakedown — pins and T-shirts — and Moondog, growing uglier by the second as he stood helplessly next to his camper, cursed out the Dead, mocked Bobby and Phil Lesh, then pledged to return next time with bags of heroin decorated with Jerry’s face. Читать дальше...

When Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell saw on her office computer that the Supreme Court was about to release the much-anticipated ruling on Obamacare, she rushed out of her office and down the hall to a conference room where about two dozen senior staff were gathered. Before she got there, she heard a cheer erupt from the room.Read full article >>

A flood warning is in effect in the District and to the northeast until 10:45 p.m.

The attacks appeared to have no connection in terms of tactic or target.The beheading and failed attempt to blow up a chemical plant in France bore no operational resemblance to the suicide bombing of a mosque in Kuwait or the armed assault on a tourist-packed beach in Tunisia.Read full article >>

President Obama was sitting across from the first lady and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett on Marine One, headed to Andrews Air Force Base and then Charleston, S.C., when he shared a thought.“I may sing,” he said, as the White House and the monuments of official Washington receded into the background.Read full article >>

Military prosecutors this year learned about a massive cache of CIA photographs of its former overseas “black sites” while reviewing material collected for the Senate investigation of the agency’s interrogation program, U.S. officials said.Read full article >>

Military prosecutors this year learned about a massive cache of CIA photographs of its former overseas “black sites” while reviewing material collected for the Senate investigation of the agency’s interrogation program, U.S. officials said.Read full article >>

LONDON — Greece’s long-running standoff with its European creditors appeared headed on Saturday for an abrupt — and potentially cataclysmic — ending as the continent’s finance ministers rejected an emergency Greek request to help the cash-starved country meet a Tuesday deadline for paying back its debts.Read full article >>

CORYDON, Iowa — Mike Huckabee — former Fox News personality, Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher — gathered with a modest crowd here in the back of Breadeaux Pizza on his “Main Street American Family” tour and opened the floor to questions.Read full article >>

It feels like the blink of an eye. At the turn of this young century, states were still free to prosecute gay couples for being intimate; as of Friday, states are required to offer them marriage licenses.Read full article >>

ABBEVILLE, S.C. — Three people stood in line recently at the Southern Patriot Shop, Confederate flags tucked under their arms, waiting their turn to check out at the cash register.Owner Robert Hayes, a 75-year-old with crow’s feet and a lingering smile, had a bit of advice for his customers before they headed back out into a world they say is drifting further and further from the America they believe in.Read full article >>

A flash flood warning is in effect for a large portion of the metro area until 5:30 p.m.