Новости за 23.08.2015

Laurie Thompson was sitting at her desk in the National Zoo’s giant panda house Saturday night when she heard a noise from the video monitor showing Mei Xiang, who had just given birth.It sounded like Mei was in labor, but she had delivered a cub about four hours earlier. Thompson, a biologist, looked at the monitor, and there, wiggling and squawking on the floor, was a second cub.Read full article >>

BEIRUT — Protests over corruption and political dysfunction are rattling Lebanon, threatening more instability in a country already hobbled by a huge influx of Syrian refugees and attacks by Islamist militants.Read full article >>

Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid gave a forceful endorsement Sunday to the nuclear deal with Iran, a key boost that provides continued momentum for preventing Congress from blocking President Obama’s pact.Read full article >>

GOP presidential hopeful Scott Walker appears to have yet again shifted his stance on allowing the children of illegal immigrants to automatically gain U.S. citizenship.In an interview on ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday morning, Walker said he does not want to alter the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States… are citizens of the United States." Nearly a week ago, Walker said he wants to end birthright citizenship, and he would... Читать дальше...

Sen. Ted Cruz, who has assiduously courted evangelicals throughout his presidential run, will take a lead role in the launch this week of an ambitious 50-state campaign to end taxpayer support for Planned Parenthood — a move that is likely to give the GOP candidate a major primary-season boost in the fierce battle for social-conservative and evangelical voters. Read full article >>

That rarest of recent events — Tiger Woods in contention on the final day of a golf tournament — will unfold Sunday with Woods tied for second place in the Wyndham Championship.There’s a lot riding on the event at Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C., for Woods as he struggles to get his game together. Woods has missed the cut in the last three majors and needs a win or a second-place finish (by himself) to qualify for the FedEx Cup playoffs that begin next week. He hasn’t won a tournament... Читать дальше...

Julie Mott's body stolen just HOURS after her memorial service http://t.co/f3BFs5JVGV #uk pic.twitter.com/nNEUimX3b0A Texas family was in the midst of one life-altering tragedy when another one struck this month.Read full article >>

In the track equivalent of a marquee heavyweight bout, Usain Bolt got the better of Justin Gatlin, narrowly edging him in the 100-meter final at the World Athletic Championships in Beijing.Bolt, the Olympics’ double-gold winner (in the 100 and 200) and the world record-holder in the 100, overcame a season of injuries to win in a season’s best 9.79 seconds. Gatlin was one-hundredth of a second back, at 9.80. Trayvon Bromell, like Gatlin an American runner, shared third place with Andre de Grasse of... Читать дальше...

The giant panda at the National Zoo gave birth to two cubs a few hours apart Saturday, launching a fresh and not totally unexpected chapter in the public romance with the rotund black-and-white bears that have enthralled Washington and legions of panda fanatics for 43 years.Read full article >>

As the world population grows, we have a pressing need to eat better and farm better, and those of us trying to figure out how to do those things have pointed at lots of different foods as problematic. Almonds, for their water use. Corn, for the monoculture. Beef, for its greenhouse gases. In each of those cases, there’s some truth in the finger-pointing, but none of them is a clear-cut villain.Read full article >>

TOKYO — The specter of conflict on the Korean Peninsula has receded, at least temporarily, as representatives from North and South Korea began a second day of talks aimed at defusing rising tensions. The two sides resumed discussions at 3 p.m. Seoul time (2 a.m. Eastern) Sunday.Read full article >>

PARIS — French authorities on Sunday continued to interrogate a suspect whose attack on a high-speed train was foiled by vacationing American service members, amid mounting questions about security lapses on Europe’s vital rail system.Read full article >>

The giant panda at the National Zoo gave birth to two cubs a few hours apart Saturday, launching a fresh and not totally unexpected chapter in the public romance with the rotund black-and-white bears that have enthralled Washington and legions of panda fanatics for 43 years.Read full article >>

COLUMBIA, S.C. — “We don’t know him.”Carol Singletary got that response time and again in 2008 when she tried to sell her friends, family and other African Americans in her native South Carolina on underdog presidential candidate Barack Obama, who was competing with a seemingly invincible Hillary Rodham Clinton.Read full article >>

ROBERTSDALE, Ala. — Kim and Renee Byrd had wanted to see Donald Trump’s speech in Mobile, but there were vegetables to sell. The Byrds are third-generation farmers, and the traffic along Route 90, toward the Gulf of Mexico, brings in travelers who want fresh honey, fresh peaches, fresh okra. Driving 45 minutes to Mobile was asking a little much, even if the next president of the United States was calling.Read full article >>

Merl Reagle, the imaginative and irrepressibly amusing verbal virtuoso who created the crossword puzzles published each week in The Washington Post Magazine and in many other newspapers, died Aug. 22 in a hospital in Tampa. He was 65.Read full article >>

Merl Reagle, the imaginative and irrepressibly amusing verbal virtuoso who created the crossword puzzles published each week in The Washington Post Magazine and in many other newspapers, died Aug. 22 in a hospital in Tampa. He was 65.Read full article >>

Officials battling wildfires that have raged across hundreds of square miles of Washington state said Saturday they hoped that easing winds could finally make it possible to contain the fires.“Very, very few fires are under control, and the majority of the eastern Washington ones are not under control because of the lack of resources,” said Don Waller, chief of Okanogan County Fire District 6. “But fortunately, the winds are supposed to be favorable today.”Read full article >>

TOKYO — The specter of conflict on the Korean Peninsula has receded, at least temporarily, as representatives from North and South Korea prepare to meet Sunday for a second day of talks aimed at defusing rising tensions.Read full article >>

PARIS — The shooter boarded the packed high-speed train with enough firepower to slaughter dozens in a matter of minutes, and he was foiled not through high-tech security but because two vacationing American service members happened to be there to overpower him.Read full article >>

This post has been updated.Vice President Biden huddled Saturday with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the rising liberal star who has declined to endorse a candidate for the 2016 presidential race, an impromptu meeting that came as speculation mounted over Biden's own potential candidacy, according to a report.Read full article >>

Vice President Biden huddled Saturday with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the rising liberal star who has declined to endorse a candidate for the 2016 presidential race, an impromptu meeting that came as speculation mounted over Biden's own potential candidacy, according to a report.Read full article >>