Новости за 13.07.2015

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — Every day they escape the war zones by car, by boat and on foot. Young and old, they carry clothes and blankets, pots and pans, and an abundance of fear. To get to this sweltering northeastern ­Afghan city, they pass through a chaotic landscape of skirmishes and land mines.Read full article >>

President Obama on Monday commuted the sentences of 46 drug offenders, more than double the number of commutations he granted earlier this year, as part of his effort to reform the criminal justice system.Read full article >>

Barber Foods is recalling 1,707,494 pounds of raw frozen chicken products after the U.S. Department of Agriculture received reports of a cluster of people in Minnesota and Wisconsin becoming ill with salmonella poisoning.Read full article >>

D.C. police said they are investigating a shooting that happened early Sunday morning at an apartment complex in the NoMa neighborhood of Northeast Washington.The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. Sunday at a building at 140 M Street NE, near First and M streets NE. There are several buildings that are part of a complex known as Flats 130.Read full article >>

MEXICO CITY — The place where drug lord Chapo Guzman popped out of the ground stands alone in rolling farmland roughly equidistant from a military base and the penitentiary where he began his escape.To build the roughly one-mile tunnel 30 feet below Mexico's highest-security prison, his rescuers would have needed to haul away 379 truckloads of earth, Mexican newspapers have calculated, and used excavating power tools that would have been difficult not to hear.Read full article >>

D.C. police said they are investigating a shooting that happened early Sunday morning at a high-end apartment complex in the NoMa neighborhood of Northeast Washington. The incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. Sunday at The Flats building near North Capitol Street and M Street NE. Read full article >>

ATHENS — Greece acquiesced early Monday to a punishing ultimatum from European leaders, agreeing to lightning-fast passage of reforms and a pledge to strap itself in a fiscal straitjacket to save its banks and stay in the euro.Read full article >>

VIENNA – Negotiators at the Iran nuclear talks on Monday tried to resolve a small number of issues still standing in the way of a final deal that would impose restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions.Read full article >>

The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is just hours from Pluto, having received final commands for its close encounter early Tuesday with the dwarf planet, which is rapidly revealing itself as a geologically complex little world.Read full article >>

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — It took a while for Edgar Galicia to realize that maybe Donald Trump had done him a favor.As it turns out, Trump’s disparaging comments about Mexicans have been a morale boost to Latinos who see the sharp public rebuke of the billionaire as evidence that they are a rising force in the United States.Read full article >>

An Iranian court on Monday held a third hearing for a Washington Post journalist facing charges that include espionage in a trial that has drawn sharp criticism from press freedom groups and the State Department.Read full article >>

There's a deal, and it seems Greece won't be leaving the euro zone, at least any time soon.In the end, Europe's wealthy powers decided to grant Greece a new lifeline in exchange for new budget-cutting and tax-hiking measures, and Greece is slated to avoid a sudden banking collapse that would probably have forced it out of the 15-year-old currency pact.Read full article >>

Later this morning, Hillary Clinton will deliver the first in a series of speeches that will lay out her diagnosis of what has happened to the American economy and what she would do about it as president. According to a campaign official, Clinton will confirm that the overarching theme of these speeches will be this: “making sure the real incomes of everyday Americans are rising steadily and strongly is the defining economic challenge of our time.”Read full article >>

Marco Rubio raised $12 million for his presidential campaign through the end of last month, bringing the total hauled in by the Florida senator and his allied outside groups to about $44 million, and putting him in third place so far in the overall GOP money chase behind Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz.Read full article >>

Scott Walker, the polarizing Republican governor of Wisconsin who catapulted to national prominence after severely weakening public-sector unions in his state and facing a contentious recall election, announced Monday morning that he is running for president.Read full article >>

MADISON, Wis. — As Gov. Scott Walker opens 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 >>

The National Park Service thought it had a good strategy for reining in the discarded water bottles that clog the trash cans and waste stream of the national parks: stop selling disposable bottles and let visitors refill reusable ones with public drinking water.Read full article >>

“There’s just a pattern here, where the other side continues to use the same old tired policies. They don’t work and then Democrat presidents have to come in and fix what was broken. I have this old-fashioned idea that, you know, you ought to look at the evidence and if you look at the evidence at the end of Bill Clinton’s two terms, we had the longest peace-time expansion in American history, with 22 million new jobs, a balanced budget and a surplus that would have paid off our national debt had... Читать дальше...

When Loren Peters arrived in the emergency room in October 2013, bruises covered his frail body and blood oozed from his gums.The 85-year-old had not been in a fight or fallen down. Instead, he had been given too much of a popular, decades-old blood thinner that, unmonitored, can turn from a lifesaver into a killer.Read full article >>

Nintendo announced Sunday that president Satoru Iwata -- also chief executive of its United States unit --  has died due to a bile duct growth at the age of 55.Iwata was a popular executive who oversaw Nintendo during some of its shakiest and strongest times, guiding it through the rocky launches of the GameCube and Wii U as well as the soaring success of the Wii. Appointed in 2002, he was the first Nintendo president who was not related to the company’s founding Yamauchi family. He began his gaming career as an employee at the HAL Laboratory... Читать дальше...

VIENNA — Negotiators are on the threshold of finalizing a historic nuclear deal with Iran, diplomats said Sunday as they tried to reach consensus on a few outstanding issues that have caused the talks to drag on past one deadline after another.Read full article >>

While NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been racing across the solar system toward Pluto, back on Earth, mission scientist Andy Cheng has been waiting.He has waited as his children grew up, moved out, and one got married, as his father and a younger brother died. He was patient as more than nine years passed.Read full article >>

The top student in a high school’s graduating class used to earn the honor of being the valedictorian, and traditionally that one student delivered a commencement speech that helped send his or her classmates out into the adult world.Read full article >>

ALMOLOYA DE JUAREZ, MEXICO — Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the world’s most famous drug lord, 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 wide-ranging manhunt early Sunday.Read full article >>

AS THE country has been jolted from mass shooting to mass shooting, the gun control debate has become depressingly routine. Advocates of tighter restrictions on firearms invariably call for better background checks, banning large­capacity magazines and other measures that would make gun deaths less likely. Gun zealots answer that even the most common-sense reforms aren’t relevant because they wouldn’t have prevented the mass shootings that keep horrifying the nation. The forces of “no” keep Congress... Читать дальше...