Новости за 20.07.2015

IT’S RARE that we dedicate our attention to marginal presidential candidates. But for a man as objectionable as Donald Trump, we will make an exception. Mr. Trump will flame out of the race, eventually. The big question is what effect his irresponsible demagoguery will have on Washington — and that poses a test to other, more credible candidates in both parties.Read full article >>

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert, Nashville’s superstar couple and two of the most powerful singers in country music, are getting a divorce.“This is not the future we envisioned. And it is with heavy hearts that we move forward separately,” the singers said via their representatives in a statement to the Associated Press. “We are real people, with real lives, with real families, friends and colleagues. Therefore, we kindly ask for privacy and compassion concerning this very personal matter.”Read... Читать дальше...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Alanna Whitney was a weird kid. She had a strange knack for pronouncing long words. Anchovies on pizza could send her cowering under a table. Her ability to geek out on subjects such as Greek mythology and world religions could be unsettling. She drank liquids obsessively, and in her teens, her extreme water intake landed her in the hospital.Read full article >>

Southern California saw more rain in one day this weekend than it saw in all of January.

Here’s a research finding that should surprise no one: The men most likely to harass women online … are the men most likely to have their own problems.That bit of validation comes courtesy Michael Kasumovic and Jeffrey Kuznekoff, researchers at the University of New South Wales and Miami University, respectively. For their latest study, published in the journal PLOS One last week, the duo watched how men treated women during 163 plays of the video game Halo 3.Read full article >>

Zach Johnson, Marc Leishman and Louis Oosthuizen will play a four-hole aggregate playoff for the British Open title after all three finished 72 holes at 15-under-par Monday at St. Andrews.The holes to be played are Nos. 1, 2, 17 and 18.Read full article >>

A French teenager’s HIV infection is still in remission more than 11 years after her medications were discontinued, the longest hiatus on record for a young person and the best indication yet that long-term interruption of the infection is possible in children, a researcher revealed Monday.Read full article >>

AGADEZ, Niger — The smuggler walked past the diaper aisle, through the back door of the convenience store and into the metal shed where the migrants were hiding.It was Monday in one of the world’s human smuggling capitals, the day when trucks crammed with Africans roar off in a weekly convoy bound for Libya, the threshold to Europe. For Musa, an expert in sneaking people across the Sahara, it was time to get ready.Read full article >>

The highly anticipated, controversial release of “Go Set a Watchman” has trained a spotlight on Nelle Harper Lee and the Alabama hometown that was — she once told me wryly — “100 miles from anywhere.”It still is, but the distance that strikes me most is the one between her life 10 years ago when I lived next door to her and her existence now, in a wheelchair in an assisted living center, nearly deaf and blind, with a uniformed guard posted at the door.Read full article >>

Earlier this month a guy named Todd Fassler was bitten by a rattlesnake in San Diego, KGTV San Diego reports. In itself this isn't terribly unusual—the CDC estimates that roughly 7,000 to 8,000 people a year get bit by a venomous snake in the U.S. And somewhere between five and six people die from these bites each year.Read full article >>

An apparent suicide blast in a Turkish town near the Syrian border tore through a political meeting Monday, killing at least 28 people in an attack officials called a “terrorist” strike.There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The site of the blast, Suruc, is near the Syrian border town of Kobane, where Syrian Kurdish defenders have faced attacks by Islamic State fighters since late last year.Read full article >>

One of the remaining hallmarks of the Cold War passed into history Monday as the Cuban flag was raised over its embassy in Washington for the first time in more than five decades.The ceremony — led by Cuba’s foreign minister — took place at the country’s 98-year-old Washington mansion just hours after a worker quietly added Cuba’s single-star flag to the line of U.S. diplomatic partners at the State Department. Read full article >>

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to apologize to military families Monday during his first public comments since the flamboyant real estate mogul mocked his military record in a campaign event Saturday.Read full article >>

On Monday, famed physicist Stephen Hawking and Russian tycoon Yuri Milner held a news conference in London to announce their new project: injecting $100 million and a whole lot of brain power into the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, an endeavor they're calling Breakthrough Listen.Read full article >>

KABUL — A U.S. airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed at least eight Afghan soldiers at a military outpost Monday in one of the deadliest "friendly fire" incidents in years, according to Afghan officials.Read full article >>

Editor's note: This letter to the director of the National Institutes of Health, first appeared on lastwordonnothing.com.Three years ago, a sudden fever struck me on a blue-sky Wisconsin morning. I've been sick ever since. On my third “illiversary,” I presented an opportunity to Francis Collins, the head of the NIH:Read full article >>

It was the spring of 1968, and Donald Trump had it good.He was 21 years old and handsome with a full head of hair. He avoided the Vietnam War draft on his way to earning an Ivy League degree. He was fond of fancy dinners, beautiful women and outrageous clubs. Most important, he had a job in his father’s real estate company and a brain bursting with money-making ideas that would make him a billionaire.Read full article >>

The secret’s out. Maybe lots of secrets. Data stolen by hackers from AshleyMadison.com, the online cheating site that claims 37 million users, has been posted online, according to Krebs on Security, the authoritative Web site that monitors hacking across the globe.Read full article >>

AMES, Iowa — Donald Trump, the celebrity businessman who has rocketed to the front of the Republican presidential race, flippantly belittled Sen. John McCain’s war service here Saturday, inviting a torrent of criticism from party leaders and other candidates.Read full article >>

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Paula Proxmire was surrounded by screaming street preachers, angry protesters and unsettled mourners who had just arrived from Sunday church.Her son, Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, 26, had died Saturday from wounds suffered in a shooting rampage here. The attacker was an aimless, depressed 24-year-old Muslim man whose online postings suggest he may have been motivated by radical Islamist movements.Read full article >>

As colleges grapple with the widespread problem of sexual assault, there is a growing consensus that the nation’s schools need to do more to educate young people about sex and relationships before they ever set foot on campus.Read full article >>

In September 2005, Bill Cosby sat before an array of lawyers during a deposition in the Rittenhouse hotel in Philadelphia and explained that he wanted to keep “tabloid-type accusations, sexual accusations” out of the public eye.Read full article >>

In September 2005, Bill Cosby sat before an array of lawyers during a deposition in the Rittenhouse hotel in Philadelphia and explained that he wanted to keep “tabloid-type accusations, sexual accusations” out of the public eye.Read full article >>

PORTERVILLE, Calif. — Their two peach trees had turned brittle in the heat, their neighborhood pond had vanished into cracked dirt and now their stainless-steel faucet was spitting out hot air. “That’s it. We’re dry,” Miguel Gamboa said during the second week of July, and so he went off to look for water.Read full article >>

Republicans won’t win the presidency in 2016 without making inroads in the Midwest. Happily for the GOP, two Midwestern governors are running for their party’s nomination.Both won reelection in 2014. The one from the state with more electoral votes won with 64 percent of the vote with wide appeal to Democrats and independents. The one from the smaller state got just 52 percent of the vote after a divisive campaign.Read full article >>