Новости за 21.07.2015

A longtime member of al-Qaeda who led the Khorasan Group, a small circle of militants in Syria planning attacks on Western targets, was killed July 8 in an airstrike, the Pentagon said Tuesday.Muhsin al-Fadhli, 34, was killed while traveling in a vehicle in Sarmada, in northwest Syria, according to the statement released by Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, director of Pentagon press operations. Fadhli was among those few al-Qaeda members who had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and he was also... Читать дальше...

HADITHA, Iraq — One by one, the cities around this Iraqi town have fallen. Fallujah. Ramadi. The walled community of Hit. Islamic State fighters have slaughtered thousands of people as they have tightened their grip on Iraq’s western province of Anbar. But Haditha has remained an outpost of resistance.Read full article >>

LifeLock, the company that aggressively advertises its identify theft protection service, came under fire from the federal government Tuesday for failing to protect the data of its customers -- once again.Read full article >>

Good news for John Kasich: Republicans want a governor for president. According to a Pew poll, 51 percent say being governor is better preparation for the White House than being in Congress, versus 40 percent who say the opposite.Read full article >>

President Obama vowed Tuesday that his administration is “not going to relent” until Iran releases three Americans held in custody, including a Washington Post journalist reaching the one-year mark of his detention.Read full article >>

An antiabortion group on Tuesday released a second video apparently showing an official at Planned Parenthood discussing the method and price of providing fetal tissue left over from abortions for medical research.Read full article >>

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich joined the 2016 presidential race Tuesday, carrying a message of fiscal conservatism and social welfare compassion that he hopes will shake up the Republican Party and vault him into contention for the party’s nomination.Read full article >>

After it failed to safeguard millions of files filled with sensitive personal information, the government’s personnel office is now telling other federal agencies they will be expected to cover the costs of responding to the massive computer breach.Read full article >>

President Obama embarks on a trip to Africa this week that includes a controversial stop in Ethiopia, where the authoritarian government has come under sharp international criticism for its handling of political dissent.Read full article >>

The investigation death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African American woman who was found dead in a Texas county jail last week, is being treated “just as it would be in a murder investigation,” Waller County, Texas, District Attorney Elton Mathis said at a news conference Monday evening.Read full article >>

Dad bod is real. Science says so.Men who become fathers experience weight gain and an increase in body mass index, a measurement of body fat based on height and weight, according to a new, large-scale study that tracked more than 10,000 men over a 20-year period. Men who didn't become dads actually lost weight over the same time period.Read full article >>

‘Ethnic food.” Lately, the very term makes me lose my appetite.I encounter it where I don’t expect it — in mainstream food writing — and where I do: Yelp. Browsing that vast compost pile of opinion, I learn that one restaurant has “just enough ethnicity to make people feel multicultural.” Another, a Latin American joint that sits on what must be Washington’s gentrification line of demarcation, can still pass one reviewer’s ethnic test. Which is, of course: “Look for patrons of that restaurant’s ethnicity... Читать дальше...

The Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta, Ga., was a hospital with systemic failures.Its gastrointestinal clinic was so overwhelmed and mismanaged that close to 5,000 referrals for endoscopies were delayed, auditors found, resulting in the deaths of three cancer patients in 2011 and 2012, hospital officials acknowledged in published reports.Read full article >>

Work + vacation.They’re two words that don’t ordinarily go together.We really should try our best to leave it all behind, because time off is key to our well-being and our ability to do our best work.  And yet, some of us, particularly knowledge workers who are now digitally connected to the office 24/7, are finding we still need  to do some work on vacation — or risk blowing deadlines, missing important communications or dealing with an avalanche of tasks when we return.Read full article >>

“The universe is apparently bulging at the seams with the ingredients of biology.”So says Geoffrey Marcy, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley and a participant in Stephen Hawking’s $100 million search for alien life, announced on Monday.Read full article >>

JERUSALEM — Defense Sec. Ashton B. Carter met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday in the first high-level U.S. encounter with the Israeli leader since world powers struck a nuclear agreement with Iran, which Israel warns is a dangerous mistake.Read full article >>

JERUSALEM — Defense Sec. Ashton B. Carter met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday in the first high-level U.S. encounter with the Israeli leader since world powers struck a nuclear agreement with Iran, which Israel warns is a dangerous mistake.Read full article >>

The chief executive officer of electronics giant Toshiba just announced his resignation amid accusations of an accounting scandal, according to numerous media reports.Toshiba told BBC News and other outlets Tuesday morning that CEO Hisao Tanaka would resign after an investigation uncovered his role in the overstating of profits for more than six years. Bloomberg News reported that Norio Sasaki, the vice chairman, and former president Atsutoshi Nishida also announced their resignations.Read full article... Читать дальше...

Much has changed since the Paleolithic era — the invention of agriculture, the advent of organized religion, the rise and fall of civilizations — but one fact hasn’t: People got cavities then, as now. And before the advent of local anesthetic, the process of treating them sounds fairly miserable.Read full article >>

Add “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell to the list of Americans who believe the Pentagon should arm recruiters and other service members after the attack in Chattanooga, Tenn.The Navy SEAL veteran took to Facebook on Monday night and ripped the Pentagon’s decisions in the aftermath of the shooting on Thursday, in which Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, killed four Marines and a Navy sailor. The services have adopted a number of measures since. The Marine Corps closed down recruiting offices within 40 miles of Chattanooga... Читать дальше...

Lawyers for Sen. Robert Menendez accused federal prosecutors and FBI agents Monday of lying to win a corruption indictment against him this spring, saying the Justice Department would “stop at nothing” to try to convict the powerful lawmaker.Read full article >>

There is little question that Bill Cosby’s revered reputation is in tatters. But will he ever be called to account for conduct that has led to multiple lawsuits and accusations of sexual misconduct from more than 40 women?Read full article >>

At 5:56 p.m. May 13, the alarm company that monitored the Savopoulos family home received a “broken glass alert” for French doors that lead into the stately D.C. house. Authorities now believe that the alarm was triggered by a killer.Read full article >>

Don’t be sure the McCain episodeis the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s bizarre presidential campaign. Don’t even be sure it’s the end of the beginning. Attacking him with censure and shame is like trying to destroy Godzilla with electricity: It might just make him stronger.Read full article >>

I have a question for Scott Walker. At what point did he decide to be heterosexual? At what age did he decide that he would not be homosexual or, if he had the energy, bisexual? I know for myself that I am unaware of making such a decision and did not mark it down — as I now would — in my Google Calendar or tweet it to much of America and the ships at sea.Read full article >>