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Two 13-year-old girls charged with stabbing a classmate 19 times and leaving her for dead in the high-profile “Slender Man” case will be tried as adults, a Wisconsin judge ruled Monday.Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren’s decision to keep the girls in the adult court system has major implications for Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, who are charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and could face sentences of up to 45 years each, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. The... Читать дальше...

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing questions over her use of a private e-mail system while secretary of state, signed a statement over the weekend declaring “under penalty of perjury” that she has turned over to the government all of the e-mails that were federal records.Read full article >>

JERUSALEM — Aviya Morris is the fresh new face of Jewish extremism, a soft-spoken young mother who wants to see the Muslim walls tumble down and a new Israel rise. This is her dream.She admits, "It could lead to world war." That would be the fault of Arabs — and the international community, she says. Morris is 20 years old.Read full article >>

LOS ANGELES — Venice Beach is where Arnold Schwarzenegger toned his muscles, the Dogtown skateboarders launched a lasting movement and Jim Morrison conceived the Doors. The Dude lived here in “The Big Lebowski.”Read full article >>

An Iranian court on Monday held its final hearing in the trial of a Washington Post journalist charged with espionage and other crimes, and a decision could come within the week, his attorney said.The move toward a possible verdict comes more than a year after Iranian authorities detained Jason Rezaian, The Post’s correspondent in Tehran. He has strongly denied the allegations against him, and the State Department, international media watchdog groups and others have pressed for his release.Read full... Читать дальше...

KABUL —In an abrupt shift from his fence-mending outreach with Pakistan, a visibly angry Afghan President Ashraf Ghani lashed out at Pakistani leaders Monday for allegedly harboring Islamist insurgents carrying out deadly cross-border attacks.Read full article >>

FERGUSON, Mo. — A man was shot and critically injured by police here following a spasm of gunfire Sunday night, exactly one year to the day after Michael Brown’s death. The late-night shooting was a violent coda to a mostly peaceful day of protests and vigils marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white Ferguson police officer.Read full article >>

The photo above is what 19,000 people packed into a basketball arena to hear Vermont socialist/independent Sen. Bernie Sanders looks like. What you don't see are the 9,000 other people who couldn't get into the arena but listened on loudspeakers outside.Read full article >>

An Iranian court on Monday held its final hearing in the trial of a Washington Post journalist facing charges, including espionage, and a decision could come within the week, his attorney said.The move toward a possible verdict comes more than a year after Iranian authorities detained Jason Rezaian, The Post’s correspondent in Tehran. He has strongly denied the allegations in a case that has drawn appeals for his release from the State Department, international media watchdog groups and others.Read... Читать дальше...

This time, he’s gone too far. That’s what Republicans said after Donald Trump insulted John McCain over his military record, people lined up to criticize Trump and the party’s leaders hoped this ridiculous (if entertaining) political reality show could finally be wound down. But it didn’t turn out that way, and now they’re saying it all over again, after Trump sparred with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly during Thursday’s debate, then continued to throw insults at her all weekend. As The Post’s Philip Rucker and Robert Costa wrote yesterday... Читать дальше...

Many people know that driving in Germany can be quite different from the U.S.: There is no general speed limit on most motorways, for example.Perhaps more astonishing, however, is another distinctive feature: Many German parking lots are equipped with special spaces for women. In some regions of Germany, law forces parking lot owners to designate at least 30 percent of their space specifically for women.Read full article >>

What would happen if, instead of overworked and burned out, workers had supportive managers who understood work is just one part of life? What if workers had more control over their schedules, and flexibility? A decade-long research study of work culture, work-life fit and health, funded by the National Institutes of Health, has found that workers in such supportive, flexible environments show half the risk of cardiovascular disease, significantly lower levels of stress, higher job satisfaction, and better physical and mental health. Читать дальше...

It was about 11 p.m. Saturday night — after hours of anguish and police visits that had turned up nothing — when Valerie Jackson’s brother finally got David R. Conley on a cellphone. “‘I need to ask you a question,'” her brother, Earl Yanske, told the Houston Chronicle. “‘Did you kill my sister?'”Read full article >>

Researchers at a New York City hospital several years ago conducted a test of the widely accepted notion that skipping breakfast can make you fat.For some nutritionists, this idea is an article of faith. Indeed, it is enshrined in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, the federal government’s advice book, which recommends having breakfast every day because “not eating breakfast has been associated with excess body weight.”Read full article >>

Thousands may flock to his rallies outside Washington, but when Sen. Bernie Sanders rides the subway through the Capitol, he’s usually alone.His Republican colleagues — many of whom are also running for president — may hunt the limelight of cable-news cameras, but a Sanders’ sighting rarely inspires the same media frenzy. Even as he is surging and beloved on the campaign trail, the senator is still struggling to make the same splash in the Senate.Read full article >>

“We need to repeal Dodd-Frank. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks. Over 40 percent of small and mid-size banks that loan money to small businesses have been wiped out since Dodd-Frank has passed.”Read full article >>

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has been drawing eye-poppingly large crowds on the campaign trail, on Sunday night attracted his largest audience yet: about 28,000 people in Portland, Ore., according to his campaign.Read full article >>

Donald Trump was ensconced inside his Manhattan skyscraper early last week, preparing for his first presidential debate. The celebrity billionaire wanted to turn the summer fling that had catapulted him to the front of the Republican pack into a candidacy capable of winning the White House — and his longtime adviser Roger Stone had a plan.Read full article >>

UNINCORPORATED JACKSON COUNTY, N.C. — The chemist who unwittingly helped spawn the District’s synthetic drug epidemic is a hard man to find. His phone numbers are listed under his wife’s name. Strangers who call his laboratories at Clemson University are told he doesn’t return messages.Read full article >>

UNINCORPORATED JACKSON COUNTY, N.C. — The chemist who unwittingly helped spawn the District’s synthetic drug epidemic is a hard man to find. His phone numbers are listed under his wife’s name. Strangers who call his laboratories at Clemson University are told he doesn’t return messages.Read full article >>

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Kurdish region has begun to sell oil independently of the central government, a move that is exacerbating divisions in the country as it struggles to turn back Islamic State militants. Read full article >>

If you wondered why President Obama gave such a passionate and, yes, partisan speech on behalf of the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, all you had to do was tune in to the Republican presidential debate the next night.Read full article >>

VISITORS TO Rockville’s Red Brick Courthouse this month have been confronted by a strange sight — a bronze statue of a soldier surrounded by a box so tall that only his head and shoulders peek out above the wooden walls. This is Montgomery County’s short-term solution to a problem that spans decades: What to do with Confederate monuments erected to honor those who died in the name of slavery? Read full article >>

Last week President Obama defended the Iran agreement in part by dismissing its critics as people who supported the war in Iraq 13 years ago — “the same people who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong,” he said.Read full article >>