Новости за 12.07.2015

LONDON —Novak Djokovic has everything but the love. He has the game, the No.1 ranking, and now he has another Wimbledon title. But the deepest affection of the audience still belonged to the man he defeated in four stirring sets at the All England club, Roger Federer, and it’s time for that to change. Exactly how great does a player have to be before he wins full appreciation?Read full article >>

SOMEWHERE ABOVE THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST — It was Saturday night aboard Donald Trump’s gleaming Boeing 757. An hour earlier, he had finished the most high-profile speech of his nearly month-old presidential campaign: a rally attended by thousands in Phoenix where he railed against illegal immigration and countless other targets — Macy's, NBC, NASCAR, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy — for 70 minutes. The billionaire real-estate mogul took off his jacket, clicked the oversized satellite television in his plush... Читать дальше...

Pluto just showed us its spots for the last time in a long while. We'll still see better and better pictures of the dwarf planet as NASA's New Horzions mission approaches its July 14 flyby, and you can expect some of the best images to come in the days immediately after, when NASA receives the photos snapped during the closest approach.Read full article >>

MADISON, Wis. — When Gov. Scott Walker launches his presidential campaign Monday, he will pitch himself as a penny-pinching fiscal hawk who wants lower taxes, cuts in government spending and less government assistance.Read full article >>

MEXICO CITY — Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the world’s most famous drug lord, has escaped from a maximum security prison in Mexico for the second time in his drug-running career, a spectacular breach of security that set off a massive manhunt in the early hours Sunday.Read full article >>

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) said Sunday that her state is better off now that the Confederate flag is no longer flying on  state capitol grounds."It felt like a massive weight had been lifted off South Carolina," she said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." "We can truly say it's a new day in South Carolina."Read full article >>

ATHENS — Bitterly divided European financial officials failed to agree on a path forward to save Greece on Sunday afternoon, passing the baton to a higher-level summit this evening of the 19 leaders of the euro zone to decide the fate of a country on the brink of financial collapse. Read full article >>

VIENNA — A potential breakthrough was reported in the Iranian nuclear talks, although diplomats indicated that it is premature to say a historic deal has been finalized.The Associated Press reported that a provisional agreement could be ready Sunday, and announced Monday. But the State Department and the Iranian delegation shot that report down, saying more work lies ahead.Read full article >>

Greece has offered an almost unconditional surrender on its bailout, but Germany might not accept anything less than a Carthaginian peace. In other words, a deal that not only forces Athens to submit, but also humiliates it in the process.Read full article >>

After knocking on thousands of doors through the course of five political campaigns, the longtime Fairfax County School Board member and aspiring county supervisor has her pitch down pat: “Hi, I’m Kathy Smith. I’m running for the Board of Supervisors in November.”Read full article >>

PHOENIX — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose caustic comments about Mexicans have inflamed the immigration debate, told thousands of cheering supporters here Saturday that “we have to take back the heart of our country.”Read full article >>

PHOENIX — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whose caustic comments about Mexicans have inflamed the immigration debate, told thousands of cheering supporters here Saturday that “we have to take back the heart of our country.”Read full article >>

After the Supreme Court issued its landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional, Robert Penn Warren set off on a journey south. He was returning to his native land from New York City to witness and contend with the effects of the ruling on its people: “I was going back to look at the landscapes and streets I had known,” he wrote, “to look at the faces, to hear the voices, to hear, in fact, the voices in my own blood.”Read full article... Читать дальше...

The last time the White House hosted its once-per-decade Conference on Aging, at least 1,200 advocates and policymakers attended. Among them was a single delegate representing older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.Read full article >>

Centering her presidential campaign on boosting incomes for middle-class Americans, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will begin unveiling an economic policy agenda designed to lift working families that have experienced years of wage stagnation and economic anxiety.Read full article >>

AVLONA, Greece — The morning’s fresh eggs were loaded and ready to ship when chicken farmer Angelos Kalyvas slid open the side door on one of his half-empty delivery vans.“Not good,” said the 52-year-old, surveying the interior. On one side, eggs in cartons were piled high. On the other, nothing. “Orders are going down. Down. Down. Down.”Read full article >>

Michael Masser, a songwriter who composed several No. 1 hits in the 1970s and 1980s and who helped launch the career of singer Whitney Houston by writing and producing some of her most popular songs, died July 9 at his home in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 74.Read full article >>

LONDON —Serena Williams was in such a competitive trance it made her slow to claim victory, but then she was only three-quarters finished with this task she has set for herself, this still unsatisfied business of total, all-time, world domination. For a moment, she was unsure whether she had actually won the Wimbledon title on Saturday. Then she shot her hands upward to a roar of acclamation from the Centre Court crowd. Read full article >>