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Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal’s run at this year’s tournament was cut short Thursday thanks to his unseeded opponent Dustin Brown, who beat the 10th-seeded Spaniard in four sets, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4, in the second round.Read full article >>

Federal regulators on Thursday approved a new drug that treats the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis and eventually might be used to help nearly half of the 30,000 patients in the United States with the fatal genetic disease.Read full article >>

Federal regulators on Thursday approved a new drug that treats the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis and eventually might be used to help nearly half of the 30,000 patients in the United States with the fatal genetic disease.Read full article >>

By the late 1990s, the Bethesda-based Cystic Fibrosis Foundation had spent decades searching for ways to alter the course of the deadly lung disease. Researchers had identified the genetic cause of the condition a decade earlier, and incremental improvements in care meant that many patients were living into their 30s.Read full article >>

On another dreary, overcast morning, as people trudged into building 197 in the Washington Navy Yard Thursday, the message went out again: “Active shooter in building.” It had been just 654 days since those people has heard the same words.Read full article >>

On another dreary, overcast morning, as people trudged into building 197 in the Washington Navy Yard Thursday, the message went out again: “Active shooter in building.” It had been just 654 days since those people has heard the same words.Read full article >>

Health officials on Thursday confirmed the country's first measles death since 2003, and they believe the victim was most likely exposed to the virus in a health facility in Washington state during an outbreak there.Read full article >>

Former Virginia senator Jim Webb will run for president, he announced Thursday.“After many months of thought, deliberation and discussion, I have decided to seek the office of the Presidency of the United States,” Webb said in an e-mail to supporters. “We need a President who understands leadership, who has a proven record of actual accomplishments, who can bring about bipartisan solutions, who can bring people from both sides to the table to get things done.”Read full article >>

The Obama administration has begun a profound shift in its enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, aiming to hasten the integration of long-term illegal immigrants into society rather than targeting them for deportation, according to documents and federal officials.Read full article >>

The Obama administration has begun a profound shift in its enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws, aiming to hasten the integration of long-term illegal immigrants into society rather than targeting them for deportation, according to documents and federal officials.Read full article >>

The Justice Department announced Thursday an $18.7 billion agreement with BP to settle civil claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the worst oil spill in U.S. history.Read full article >>

ATHENS — Greece’s outspoken finance minister said Thursday he would resign if his country votes “yes” in a referendum on Europe’s bailout proposal, offering the clearest indication that the government’s future is on the line in the Sunday vote.Read full article >>

Who needs a focus group when you’ve got the Internet?We have to say it: Stephen Colbert, or whoever came up with the idea to have him host a cable access show, is quietly brilliant.Colbert’s guest-hosting stint on “Only in Monroe,” a show that serves Monroe County, Mich., basically served as a La Jolla Playhouse workshopping of the “Late Show.”Read full article >>

More than 400 years after their ancestors greeted John Smith and other English settlers, Virginia’s Pamunkey Indians have finally won recognition from the federal government that they are a Native American tribe.Read full article >>

More than 400 years after their ancestors greeted John Smith and other English settlers, Virginia’s Pamunkey Indians have finally won recognition from the federal government that they are a Native American tribe.Read full article >>

The economy is adding a lot of jobs, but still needs to add a lot more.That's the simple message of the latest jobs report, which was good, but not quite as good as the headline numbers suggest. Now, if you're a glass-half-full kind of person, you'd point out that the economy added 223,000 jobs in June, for a three-month average of 221,000. That's pretty healthy, and more than enough to keep bringing the unemployment rate down. But if you're a glass-half-empty sort, you'd counter that the economy lost 60,000 jobs in revisions to April and May... Читать дальше...

The nation added a solid 223,000 jobs in June, according to government data released Thursday morning, but flat wages and an exodus of workers from the labor market suggest an economy that is still well short of a full recovery.Read full article >>

Some terrifying news out of Germany: A robot grabbed a worker and crushed him to death.Volkswagen said that a 22-year-old contractor at a plant in Baunatal, near Frankfurt, was setting up a stationary robot Monday when it grabbed him and crushed him against a metal plate, according to the AP.Read full article >>

The annual July 4 fireworks display and concert on the Mall  means there will be festivities wherever there’s a great vantage point. But this year, those in the Capitol Building — one of the primo spots for viewing the show — will enjoy less of a frat party than in years past.Read full article >>

“You’re growing up and you go, ‘I want to be on the front of a Wheaties box, I want to be on the front of a Topps card, you want to be on the Body Issue,'” Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper told ESPN’s Stacey Pressman.Read full article >>

Two former CNN correspondents were involved in a shootout in a New Mexico motel room.Former CNN reporter Chuck de Caro and his wife, former Headline News anchor Lynne Russell, had stopped Tuesday night at a Motel 6 in Albuquerque on a trip to California when a man attempted to rob them at gunpoint. Police said de Caro was wounded and “the offender” was killed.Read full article >>

Politicians were tripping over themselves to call for the Confederate flag to be taken down in the wake of the Charleston shootings. But new polling has found Americans weren't quite so decisive.In fact, for once, politicians might actually have gotten out ahead of public opinion.Read full article >>

Back in the 1970s, figuring out the price of a plane ticket was pretty easy: No matter what airline you took, the price was the same.The government set prices that were dictated mostly by the length of the trip, and airlines competed for business based on other factors, such as service or amenities.Read full article >>

They flew home from Iraq together  on a spring day in 2010 on a C-17 cargo plane, the dog in a metal kennel on the floor at the soldier’s feet. When they reached the United States, the soldier went home to his farm in Fountain, Colo., and the dog was transported to the Army’s military kennels at Fort Carson, about 12 miles north.Read full article >>

I remember one of the first times I thought I might be gay. I was about 10, walking with my mom through Chelsea — New York City’s preeminent gayborhood — and saw a rainbow flag hanging from a pharmacy storefront. The sight of the flag made me deeply uncomfortable. Even then, I knew it somehow represented me and marked me as different. I was only a kid, but I understood that if I identified with that flag, I’d be in for a hard life.Read full article >>