Новости за 22.08.2015

The shootout occurred on a Tuesday morning in early August in a parking lot off Suitland Parkway in Southeast Washington. John A. Gassaway was struck by eight bullets fired into his lower body. Police said that as he fell, he raised his own gun and fired at his assailant, fleeing in a silver Kia Borrego.Read full article >>

When Muriel E. Bowser was running for mayor last year, managing the city’s lightning-fast gentrification and turning a page on a political ethics scandal were clear requisites for the job. Battling a soaring murder rate was not.Read full article >>

KABUL — A massive car bomb targeting a U.S.-led NATO mission convoy killed at least 12 people, including three Virginia-based American civilian contractors, near a hospital during rush hour Saturday, the latest in a series of deadly attacks that have struck the capital in recent weeks.Read full article >>

KABUL — The U.S.-funded media development institute is located in a large two-story house behind an armored steel door, guarded by armed security guards who gain access only through a computerized fingerprint scanner. The safety measures were installed in the spring after the Nai Institute was accused by the Taliban of being “the center of the American cultural invasion.”Read full article >>

Thousands of antiabortion activists descended upon Planned Parenthood clinics on Saturday to participate in a nationwide protest aimed at cutting off federal funding for the controversial health-care organization.Read full article >>

Hours after the Daily Mail reported that Sam Rader — one half of the viral Christian vlogging couple Sam and Nia — appeared to have once paid for an account on the infidelity Web site Ashley Madison, the couple released a video confirming that the account was Rader’s and saying that they had put the whole thing behind them.Read full article >>

We love our children. Most of us would do anything for them, including cashing out our retirement savings to pay their college tuition. But for many people, that would be a huge mistake — one that could eventually result in their children having to take care of them.Read full article >>

PARIS — French President François Hollande plans to meet three Americans who foiled a suspected terrorist attack on a packed high-speed train running from Amsterdam to Paris. Friday’s dramatic incident — in which a heavily armed man emerged from a train bathroom with an automatic rifle and started shooting — was being investigated by French counterterrorism authorities. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel described the incident as a terrorist attack.Read full article >>

This high school is sooooooo into the Confederate flag. @ByErikBrady: http://t.co/kR6O42VJeg pic.twitter.com/kbFMZVBlbUAs students entered Hurley High School in Hurley, Va., for the first day of classes this week, they passed through a set of bright red doors on which the Confederate battle flag is boldly painted.Read full article >>

BEIJING — Chinese authorities recently placed rabbits, chickens and pigeons at the site of the massive, chemical-fueled explosions that rocked Tianjin on Aug. 12, according to state media reports.Because nothing says “everything is fine” like caged bunnies in a burned-out disaster zone.Read full article >>

TOKYO — Representatives from North and South Korea met Saturday at the border village of Panmunjom, in an attempt to defuse tensions between them that are threatening to escalate into a military conflict.Read full article >>

MOBILE, Ala. — It was the most audacious Donald Trump spectacle yet in a summer full of them, as the Republican presidential front-runner, in his Boeing 757, thundered over a football stadium here Friday night and gave a raucous speech to one of the largest crowds of the 2016 campaign.Read full article >>

DONALD TRUMP’S rapidly expanding catalogue of bombast is already a weighty tome, and it’s a fool’s errand to take each of his utterances seriously. Still, his loathsome comment on Wednesday, in which he excused violence against a Hispanic man in Boston as “passionate” acts of “people who are following me,” taps into a dark vein in American history and merits special attention. Read full article >>

“It’s probably the same person, writing 16 different comments under 15 different names.” That’s how a friend’s son recently shrugged off a social media spat he’d been involved in at his university. There had been some nasty name-calling and a few violent threats, but he wasn’t bothered: He reckoned the anger, racism and vitriol he had encountered on Twitter and Facebook weren’t “real.” They didn’t affect real politics, or real life. Read full article >>

It has come to this: The GOP, formerly the party of Lincoln and ostensibly the party of liberty and limited government, is being defined by clamors for a mass roundup and deportation of millions of human beings. To will an end is to will the means for the end, so the Republican clamors are also for the requisite expansion of government’s size and coercive powers. Read full article >>

FORT BENNING, GA. — The first female soldiers to complete the Army’s rigorous Ranger School pinned on their black-and-gold Ranger tab at a raucous graduation ceremony Friday, capping their history-making week and putting a spotlight on the debate over women in combat.Read full article >>

CAIMITO, Cuba — Like all homestead stories, Fernando Funes Monzote’s starts with an epic battle against harsh elements and long odds. Funes, a university-trained agronomist, settled on a badly eroded, brushy hillside here outside Havana four years ago and began digging a well into the rocky soil. The other farmers nearby thought he was crazy, or worse — a dilettante with a fancy PhD whose talk of “agroecology” would soon crash into the realities of Cuban farming.Read full article >>

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a solution for the summer doldrums in big-money politics: Go where the rich people go.Specifically, where the rich liberals like to go.Clinton will be in Water Mill, N.Y., on Saturday at the home of New York philanthropists Arthur and Selma Rabin. She returns to the Hamptons next weekend for a dinner reception at the Southampton home of celebrity fashion designer Tory Burch.Read full article >>

Two people were reported shot — one fatally — at a federal building in Manhattan on Friday evening.A New York Police Department spokesman confirmed shortly before 6 p.m. that there was an “active shooting situation” and that one person had died at Varick and Houston streets, but no further details were immediately released.Read full article >>

This post has been updated.The teenager whose fatal shooting by St. Louis police on Wednesday sparked protests in that city was shot in the back, police said.Mansur Ball-Bey, an 18-year-old African American who was shot dead during a police chase, died from a wound in the back, according to a preliminary autopsy.Read full article >>

The second in command of the Islamic State was killed in northern Iraq earlier this week, the White House said Friday.Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, a leader of Islamic State operations also known as Hajji Mutazz, was traveling in a vehicle near Mosul on Aug. 18 when he was killed in a U.S. airstrike. Hayali was a senior deputy to the Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a statement from Ned Price, a spokesman for the National Security Council.Read full article >>

DES MOINES — Sen. Ted Cruz and actress Ellen Page had an animated back-and-forth about gay rights at the Iowa State Fair on Friday.Page asked Cruz, who was standing behind a grill full of pork chops, about LGBT people who are "being fired for just strictly being gay or trans." The question kicked off a nearly five-minute exchange between the actress and the presidential candidate, who did not appear to recognize Page.Read full article >>