Новости за 19.07.2015

ATHENS — On a January evening four days before he became the first radical leftist to lead a country in the European Union, Alexis Tsipras bounded to the stage at an outdoor rally in a grubby corner of Athens and proclaimed the imminent end to “our national humiliation.” Read full article >>

For so many, Bill Cosby, the beloved artist and entertainer, the man who had come to embody the quintessential American dad, disappeared months ago beneath an unprecedented wave of sordid accusations.But for his dwindling pool of supporters, the words of Cosby’s accusers never seemed to carry as much weight as those from the mouth of the prolific entertainer.Read full article >>

AFTER DIRECTOREdgar Wright left his long-gestating passion project “Ant-Man” more than a year ago, some industry watchers tried to make a mountain out of anthill. Would the auteur’s exit result in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first commercial setback? Might there even be a Marvel derailment after seven years of streaking success?Read full article >>

Martin Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, reiterated his call for the release of correspondent Jason Rezaian, whose arrest and year-long detention in Iran drew fresh attention with the country’s nuclear agreement with the United States and other world powers last week.Read full article >>

Former president George H.W. Bush has been discharged from a Maine hospital following a recent fall.Bush fell at his home in Kennebunkport, Maine, and fractured a bone in his neck. He was rushed to a hospital in Portland, Maine, to be fitted for a neck brace and to begin physical therapy.Read full article >>

Ian McKellen — excuse me, Sir Ian McKellen — is one of the finest Shakespearean actors alive, with a stage career that spans Romeo to King Lear. But today, at 76, the actor is best known for playing the wizard Gandalf in six film adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth sagas and the mutant Magneto in five “X-Men” adventures. As his version of Sherlock Holmes hits theaters with the release of “Mr. Holmes,” McKellen would like to remind the world that he never intended to build a career based... Читать дальше...

"No, not at all." That was reality TV star Donald Trump's response to ABC's Martha Raddatz Sunday morning when she asked him whether he owed John McCain an apology for suggesting that the Arizona Senator wasn't a war hero because he had been captured during the Vietnam War.Read full article >>

PHOENIX — A forum featuring two of the most liberal candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination was disrupted and taken over Saturday by liberal activists seeking to showcase their concerns for the plight of African Americans.Read full article >>

LAS VEGAS — Politically, Jeb Bush wants voters to focus on his first name and his own political record. But when it comes to fundraising, he’s still banking on the success of his last name.He hosted wealthy donors, many of whom backed his father and brother’s presidential bids, at his parents’ coastal estate in Maine this month. And on Friday night, he headlined a raucous dinner hosted by a PAC led in part by his two sons. It was held in a Venetian Hotel ballroom next to the theater where Diana Ross... Читать дальше...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A few months before he killed five U.S. service members in a shooting rampage here, the 24-year-old gunman, who often joked that he was just an “Arabian redneck,” was smoking marijuana with friends.Read full article >>

POCOMOKE CITY, Md. — The crowd gathered outside City Hall last week, demanding that their community’s first black police chief — fired amid allegations leveled against white officers of departmental racism — be given his job back.Read full article >>

The man in the Mickey Mouse shirt was clinging to a light pole on H Street NE when police showed up, and then he dropped his pants. Another man near Eastern Market was laughing so hard that paramedics had trouble keeping him on a stretcher. A third, whom police found prancing through Capitol Hill, started kicking and screaming when eight police and fire officials tried to restrain him.Read full article >>

ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND — There was some argument about whether the second round of the British Open was a natural disaster or man-made, but one person didn’t care either way: the leader, Dustin Johnson. Nothing got to him, from an unfair start at 7 a.m. in gale-force winds that saw balls rolling around greens without being touched, to more than 10 hours of waiting around for the wind to die. Johnson kept his same habitual disposition through it all: sleepy-headed.Read full article >>

More than 4,000 scientists from around the world will gather in Washington this week to share the latest findings and ideas on Alzheimer’s disease, with some saying that the odds of finding effective treatments look promising even as an aging society increases the urgency of finding a cure.Read full article >>

BEIJING — It could be said that Chinese authorities created Wang Yu — or at least the Wang Yu who has become a thorn in their side.She was a mild-mannered commercial lawyer working on patent disputes and the like until an incident at a train station in Tianjin at the end of 2008. She had an altercation with station employees after they stopped her from getting on a train, even though she had a ticket, and was then assaulted by several men.Read full article >>

COLUMBIA, S.C. — On a boiling weekday afternoon on the outskirts of Atlanta, the Ku Klux Klan hunted white people in a turquoise convertible.Roy Pemberton, 62, a Klansman who prominently wore the group’s so-called “blood drop” cross on his hat, trolled the suburban parking lots of Wal-Marts, Home Depots and Krogers looking for fresh recruits. But he also had a more immediate concern: a call for sympathizers to join Saturday’s rally protesting South Carolina’s recent removal of the Confederate flag... Читать дальше...