Новости за 17.08.2015

Dear Civilities: It sure seems like hypocrisy to say we can’t fly the Rebel flag because it offends people, when you fly the gay flag, which certainly offends lots of people. Who gets to decide which flag is allowed to fly and which ones can’t? I say grin and bear it. Read full article >>

Port Royal, S.C.—Three years ago, life caught up with the novelist Pat Conroy. After decades of eating and drinking pretty much whatever he wanted, the best-selling novelist found himself lying in a hospital bed, bloated with fluids as his organs floundered. He had Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and a failing liver. Read full article >>

An attack by hackers who stole sensitive personal information from thousands of taxpayers was far more widespread than the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed, officials said Monday as they released new estimates that 610,000 Americans were affected.Read full article >>

BANGKOK — A powerful explosion sent a fireball and hail of debris through a busy Bangkok district filled with shoppers and tourists Monday, killing at least 19 people near a site that also has been a hub for political rallies and clashes, police said.Read full article >>

The National Labor Relations Board halted the unionization efforts of Northwestern’s football players in a unanimous decision Monday, dismissing the players’ petition and handing a major victory to the NCAA and universities trying to preserve the longstanding structure of college athletics. Read full article >>

Hardly a day goes by that doesn’t herald a new scheme for preventing Alzheimer’s disease. And millions of baby boomers who witnessed a parent’s struggle with dementia can’t help but pay attention as they approach the age when their mother or father first displayed signs of disease.Read full article >>

“Throw out the textbooks” and “missing link” are words rarely heard anymore in science, but that’s what researchers around the world are saying about the recent discovery of microscopic lymphatic vessels connecting the brain to the immune system.Read full article >>

If Typhoon Goni makes landfall in Taiwan, it would be the second in as many weeks for the island.

BANGKOK — An apparent bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded in a busy Bangkok district filled with shoppers and tourists on Monday, killing at least 16 people near a site that also has been a hub for political rallies and clashes in the past, police said.Read full article >>

The Route 29 Batman, whose roadside encounter with Montgomery County police three years ago made him a viral sensation around the world, has died.Lenny B. Robinson, the 51-year-old Maryland man who drove a custom-made Batmobile and dressed as the Caped Crusader to visit sick children in hospitals, was struck by a car on Interstate 70 Sunday night near Hagerstown, Md., after the Batmobile broke down. He was coming home from a car show in West Virginia.Read full article >>

A man has been charged in the murder of E’Dena Hines, the granddaughter of Morgan Freeman.New York police found Hines, 33, early Sunday morning lying in the street outside her apartment in Manhattan’s Washington Heights with some 16 stab wounds to her chest, police said. A man, described by police as her boyfriend, an aspiring rapper, was standing over her body shouting Bible verses and exorcism incantations. He was taken into custody and transported by ambulance to Columbia Presbyterian Medical... Читать дальше...

“It sucks to be well-known,” says a character in the new novel by well-known author Jonathan Franzen. “Everyone should be told this about fame before they start pursuing it: you will never trust anyone again. You will be a kind of damned person.” Read full article >>

Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who is campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination with a unique message of compassionate conservatism and cultural inclusion, will pick up a head-turning endorsement Monday in the Bible Belt.Read full article >>

Federal investigators said five people were killed Sunday morning when two small planes, one carrying employees from military contractor BAE Systems, collided midair, crashed to the ground and caught fire as the two approached a San Diego airport. BAE’s U.S. headquarters are in Arlington, Va.Read full article >>

By all rights, Ruby Sales should have been killed on Friday, Aug. 20, 1965.She should have been hit by the shotgun blast fired by the enraged white man on the porch of the general store in rural Alabama.Read full article >>

Crowded. That’s how Ed Rensi remembers what life was like working at McDonald’s in 1966. There were about double the number of people working in the store — 70 or 80, as opposed to the 30 or 40 there today — because preparing the food just took a lot more doing.Read full article >>

Crowded. That’s how Ed Rensi remembers what life was like working at McDonald’s back in 1966. There were about double the number of people working in the store — 70 or 80, as opposed to the 30 or 40 there today — because preparing the food just took a lot more doing.Read full article >>

W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming,” written in 1919, is my nominee for the most cited poem in political commentary. The line invoked most — “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” — is irresistible. It’s always tempting to assume that the side we oppose brings vast reservoirs of demonic energy to bear against our own sad and bedraggled allies. Read full article >>

MEISSEN, Germany — In a gesture of German goodwill, the administration in this medieval city leased a newly renovated apartment building here to humanely — even comfortably — house dozens of desperate ­asylum-seekers. The newcomers from Syria and other war-ravaged nations would enjoy freshly redone floors, cute balconies and shiny, modern appliances in a cheerful building near a timber-framed pub. Read full article >>

As heroin overdoses and deaths soar in many parts of the nation, the White House plans to announce Monday an initiative that will for the first time pair public health and law enforcement in an effort to shift the emphasis from punishment to the treatment of addicts.Read full article >>

As heroin overdoses and deaths soar in many parts of the nation, the White House plans to announce Monday an initiative that will for the first time pair public health and law enforcement in an effort to shift the emphasis from punishment to the treatment of addicts.$2.5 millionMoney being committed to the program by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. The new funding will pay for hiring a cop and a health data analyst in each of 15 of the nation’s 28 High Intensity Drug Trafficking... Читать дальше...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL adopted a resolution last week urging the worldwide decriminalization of prostitution, and D.C. Council member David Grosso (I-At Large) was among many to applaud the vote: He announced that he is considering introducing matching legislation this fall. Amnesty International and Mr. Grosso are well intentioned but wrong: The policy would do more to hurt victims of sex trafficking than it would to help them.Read full article >>

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s former prime minister may face criminal charges for his role in the fall of Mosul to Islamic State militants last summer after an investigation named him among officials responsible.Nouri al-Maliki, currently one of the country’s three vice presidents, is among dozens of officials named in a parliamentary report on why the city fell with so little resistance, members of the investigation committee said Sunday. He has been widely blamed for allowing corruption to thrive during his tenure as prime minister... Читать дальше...

The gunman ran up Georgia Avenue, shooting along the way. Struck in the back, the 33-year-old victim collapsed in front of a Metrobus. A witness on the bus told police the assailant “stood over him and shot him two more times.”Read full article >>

IN SOME WAYS, it’s like 1988 all over again. Because in culturally resonant times, N.W.A. has again exceeded all commercial expectations.Three decades ago, the gangsta rappers shocked the world by going double-platinum. This time around, some box-office prognosticators were sizing up the new film “Straight Outta Compton” on a scale fit for other top musical biopics. Turns out, for comparison’s sake, they should have been eyeing superheroes.Read full article >>