Новости за 11.07.2015

VIENNA — Secretary of State John F. Kerry pressed on with efforts to negotiate a nuclear agreement with Iranian diplomats Saturday as Iran’s supreme leader called the United States “the true embodiment of global arrogance.”Read full article >>

Nicholas Anthony Rodriguez disappeared during a riot in a Northern California prison in May.Until he was found 15 hours later, officials at the medium-security California State Prison, Solano, assumed he had escaped.Read full article >>

KABUL —The top Islamic State leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, the latest in a string of American air assaults against militants in recent days, Afghan intelligence officials said Saturday.Read full article >>

KABUL —The top Islamic State leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, the latest in a string of American air assaults against militants in recent days, Afghan intelligence officials said Saturday.Read full article >>

PHOENIX — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose caustic comments about Mexican migrants have inflamed the debate over illegal immigration, is taking his tough-talk road show to this border state that has been the epicenter of the divisive national battle over reform.Read full article >>

A third of Americans expect to work at least until age 65. Another 10 percent don’t plan to retire at all.Many don’t think they’ve saved enough money. And baby boomers are redefining retirement and must keep busy to stay happy — especially if many expect to live into their 80s and 90s.Read full article >>

When Roeland Park police officer Mark Engravalle was dispatched to a local Wal-Mart after a woman was caught shoplifting on Monday, he could have treated the incident like any other petty theft.Instead of handcuffing Sarah Robinson and taking her to jail, however, he started a conversation with the mother of six, who told him that her family had struggled since the drowning death of her husband in 2011. Now Robinson and her daughters — 5-year-old Emily, 13-year-old Sophia, 12-year-old Angelina, 4-year-old Miley and twins Becky and Bella ... Читать дальше...

It’s hard not to miss Donald Trump these days if you go anywhere near the cable news channels or, frankly, lots of other news outlets. He seems to be talking to every reporter with a telephone or a camera, and when he stops talking to them, they all keep talking about him. Read full article >>

Roger Rees, the lanky Tony Award-winning actor and director who made his mark onstage as Nicholas Nickleby in a legendarily demanding production and became a mainstay on Broadway playing Gomez in “The Addams Family” and Chita Rivera’s doomed lover in “The Visit,” died July 10 in New York. He was 71.Read full article >>

Roger Rees, the lanky Tony Award-winning actor and director who made his mark onstage as Nicholas Nickleby in a legendarily demanding production and became a mainstay on Broadway playing Gomez in “The Addams Family” and Chita Rivera’s doomed lover in “The Visit,” died July 10 in New York. He was 71.Read full article >>

Serena Williams won her fourth consecutive Grand Slam title and 21st of her career on Saturday by beating Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain, 6-4, 6-4, at Wimbledon. It is her sixth Wimbledon championship.[ Celebrities flock to Twitter to congratulate Serena Williams on Wimbledon win]Read full article >>

Serena Williams won her fourth consecutive Grand Slam title and 21st of her career on Saturday by beating Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain, 6-4, 6-4, at Wimbledon. It is her sixth Wimbledon championship.The match didn’t go exactly as planned for Williams, the No. 1 seed, who lost her first service game when Muguruza, the 20th seed, found a way to break her. Part of that was because of Williams’s own unforced errors. In the first four games of the first set, she had already tallied six compared to Muguruza’s one. Читать дальше...

VIENNA — Diplomats from the United States, Europe and Iran held a fresh round of meetings Saturday in what could prove to be a decisive weekend in the effort to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.Read full article >>

ATHENS — European finance ministers were locked in high-stakes talks Saturday over the fate of Greece, with the outcome set to determine whether its creditors will launch a new round of emergency negotiations on a new rescue package to prevent the Mediterranean nation’s imminent financial collapse.Read full article >>

It's a journey that's taken almost a decade, and it's going to pass in the blink of an eye. But it could unlock the secrets of the origin of the solar system.On July 14, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will zip past Pluto at over 30,000 miles per hour, having traveled over 3 billion miles since its launch in 2006. The flyby, which will collect reams of data, will be humankind's first encounter with Pluto. And if you still consider Pluto a planet -- which many do, even though in 2006 it was reclassified... Читать дальше...

ATHENS — Less than a week ago, Greece stood defiant.Thousands of people flooded the square outside Parliament, draping themselves in blue-and-white flags to celebrate the country’s sweeping rejection of the tough austerity measures demanded by its European creditors, which Greece’s fiery young leader had likened to “blackmail.”Read full article >>

Office of Personnel Management Director Katherine Archuleta resigned under pressure ­Friday, a day after the Obama administration announced that two major breaches of U.S. government databases holding personnel records and security-clearance files exposed the sensitive information of at least 22.1 million people.Read full article >>

THE OTHER day, House Speaker John A. Boehner found himself in Ireland, where somehow he left the mistaken impression that he intends to legislate a solution to the United States’ broken-down immigration system. Pressed by Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who complained that some 50,000 Irish citizens in the United States live in a state of limbo owing to their expired visas, Mr. Boehner (R-Ohio) mentioned for the umpteenth time the importance he attaches to immigration reform. If only.Read full article... Читать дальше...

With astonishing speed — and a surprising new consensus — the status of the Confederate battle flag has been altered. While a reconsideration of that symbol’s original meaning is long overdue, there is a countervailing risk that the righteous satisfaction in some quarters at lowering the flag may blind us to another large misunderstanding of the past.Read full article >>

Omar Sharif, the Egyptian-born movie actor of virile good looks who became an international heartthrob in “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Doctor Zhivago,” and who made off-screen conquests as a bridge champion and consummate playboy, died July 10 at a hospital in Cairo. He was 83.Read full article >>

This story has been updated.Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's Twitter account got ahead of him on Friday evening, blasting his nearly 150,000 followers with an announcement that he is running for president.Read full article >>

Leaders of the American Psychological Association secretly collaborated with officials at the Pentagon and CIA to weaken the association’s ethical guidelines and allow psychologists to take part in coercive interrogation programs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a report released Friday.Read full article >>

The Museum of Science in Boston tallies 1.4 million visits a year. Many of those visitors tour the Mathematica exhibit, a beloved if low-tech attraction installed in 1981 that features sculptures, activities and a dizzying array of numbers, symbols and equations to explain mathematical concepts.Read full article >>

The Museum of Science in Boston tallies 1.4 million visits a year. Many of those visitors tour the Mathematica exhibit, a beloved if low-tech attraction installed in 1981 that features sculptures, activities and a dizzying array of numbers, symbols and equations to explain mathematical concepts.Read full article >>

Ellen Pao has resigned as interim chief executive of Reddit, the popular online message board, following widespread user criticism of the way she was running the company.Reddit announced the change Friday afternoon in a company post, saying that the resignation was "by mutual agreement." Pao will be replaced by Steve Huffman, Reddit's co-founder and original chief executive.Read full article >>