Новости за 31.07.2015

CHARLESTON, S.C. — ​The man accused of gunning down nine African Americans last month inside a historic black church known as “Mother Emanuel” has told his lawyers that he currently plans to plead guilty to federal hate crime charges, attorney David Bruck told a federal judge Friday.Read full article >>

The two University of Cincinnati police officers who witnessed another officer shooting and killing a driver during a traffic stop will not be charged, the Hamilton County prosecutor said Friday.Raymond Tensing, 25, was arrested Wednesday after a grand jury indicted him on one count of murder and a count of manslaughter for shooting Samuel DuBose, 43, earlier this month. He was also fired from his university police post.Read full article >>

ééDonald Trump made good on threats to sue celebrity chef José Andrés, after the Washington-based toque backed out of a deal to open the flagship restaurant in Trump’s D.C. luxury hotel, slapping him with a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit.Read full article >>

IT IS A GENTLE afternoon in this Connecticut office park, where several floors up, a lighting artist is herself backlit by the glinting summer sun. “The Peanuts Movie” is in the home stretch of production, ahead of its November release, and here at Blue Sky Studios, the look and line of creator Charles M. Schulz is meriting both intense allegiance and 3-D reinvention. So at this moment, in that spirit, Jeeyun Sung Chisholm pauses before the screen, her right hand resting on a tablet as she sharpens the film’s big dance scene. Читать дальше...

DANVILLE, Va. — A federal judge ruled Friday that Virginia can stop issuing specialty license plates that show the Confederate flag, following a recent Supreme Court decision that said such a ban does not violate the 1st Amendment.Read full article >>

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that he and his wife Priscilla Chan are expecting a baby girl. But the couple also made an unusually candid announcement: Chan has suffered several miscarriages in their attempt to have a child.Read full article >>

From the beginning, firefighters and police were suspicious about a fire last month that erupted at 3:30 a.m. inside a Toyota Corolla on the side of a Montgomery County highway. The driver, a 33-year-old woman, was found lying face down outside the car, screaming in pain. The car doors were locked. Inside, a small child lay motionless on a rear floorboard. Rescuers tried to get to him but couldn’t.Read full article >>

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Following President Obama’s reelection in 2012 — a win powered in part by historic black voter turnout — Republicans launched an aggressive outreach effort aimed at African American voters. Never again, they vowed, would they concede that sort of overwhelming demographic advantage to Democrats.Read full article >>

The World Health Organization announced Friday that an Ebola vaccine has shown great promise in halting the spread of the deadly virus during a clinical trial in Guinea."We believe that the world is on the verge of an efficacious Ebola vaccine," Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO assistant director general for health systems and innovation, said in announcing the results of a preliminary study on the vaccine trial.Read full article >>

Only the swamps of Florida stand between two female soldiers becoming the first women to ever graduate from the Army’s famously difficult Ranger School.The women have completed the school’s Mountain Phase, and will move on to the third and final phase of training, Army officials said Friday. It begins Sunday when they and 125 men who also completed the Mountain Phase parachute into the Florida Panhandle and start training at Eglin Air Force Base’s Camp James E. Rudder.Read full article >>

In Bandar Mahshahr, the temperature was 115 degrees and the heat index was nearing a world record.

BEIJING — Beijing celebrated its award of the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday in a carefully orchestrated party at the centerpiece stadium for the summer games back in 2008 — showcasing its new status as the first city to host the Olympics for both seasons.Read full article >>

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking to a mostly African American crowd here Friday morning, decried racial inequality and took an indirect swipe at Republican rival Jeb Bush, who will speak here later in the morning.Read full article >>

DUMA, West Bank — Arsonists set fire to two Palestinian homes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, killing a toddler and injuring four others in an attack that authorities say was likely carried out by Jewish extremists.Read full article >>

The cold case known as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been jolted by a piece of flotsam that washed ashore, and now investigators are scrambling again.A top Australian official said Friday authorities are “increasingly confident” that the debris found on a beach on an island in the Indian Ocean is part of the plane that vanished 16 months ago without a trace.Read full article >>

MIAMI — Hillary Rodham Clinton will ask Congress on Friday to seize what she calls a "decisive moment" and lift the five-decade-old trade embargo against Cuba.The Democratic front runner was speaking Friday in South Florida, home to many Cuban-Americans. For years, it has been the base of powerful anti-Castro sentiment that has made the embargo untouchable, especially for Republicans, like those running Congress and running to oppose her for president in 2016.Read full article >>

Several years ago, when the economy was still looking grisly, it was easy to explain the single most popular trope about millennials — that an unusually high number of them were still living in their parents' basements. Obviously, they didn't have jobs. Where were they supposed to go?Read full article >>

The killer of Cecil the lion that has been excoriated around the world in recent days may face Zimbabwean justice for his crime. Zimbabwe’s government has asked that Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota who has admitted to killing the animal, be returned to Africa to be tried.Read full article >>

Much of the snow will likely be made by man and the nearest ski mountains might be a two-hour car ride away, but China will get yet another chance to flex its global muscle as Beijing was selected Friday as host of the 2022 Winter Olympics.Read full article >>

Earlier this week, Olli Immonen, a legislator belonging to The Finns, an anti-immigration political party that's part of Finland's ruling coalition, published an incendiary post on Facebook.Written both in English and Finnish, the statement called on Immonen's countrymen to "defeat this nightmare called multiculturalism," describing it as "an ugly bubble that our enemies live in." The full post follows below.Read full article >>

In early 2011, then-CIA Director Leon Panetta confronted the president of Pakistan with a disturbing piece of intelligence. The spy agency had learned that ­Mohammad Omar, the Taliban leader who had become one of the world’s most wanted fugitives after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was being treated at a hospital in southern Pakistan. Read full article >>

One moment, the kids were playing in a second-floor apartment at Benning Terrace. The next moment, D.C. police said, a child had a gun in his hands and it fired, turning innocent summertime play into tragedy when a bullet struck 3-year-old Dalis Cox in the chest.Read full article >>

One morning this week, five members of Spread Love, a New Orleans-style street band, gathered at one of Washington’s busiest intersections, pulled out four trombones, a drum set and a tips bucket and began playing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”Read full article >>

One morning this week, five members of Spread Love, a New Orleans-style street band, gathered at one of Washington’s busiest intersections, pulled out four trombones, a drum set and a tips bucket and began playing “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.”Read full article >>

The former University of Cincinnati police officer charged with murder and manslaughter for shooting a driver during a traffic stop pleaded not guilty Thursday, and his attorney indicated that he would argue his client acted in self-defense.Read full article >>