Новости за 30.06.2016

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An attorney says Volkswagen believes it can fix some of the diesel vehicles caught up in the carmaker's cheating emissions scandal without compromising their performance.

Concerns continue to grow that Rio de Janeiro may not be prepared for the August Olympics.

CNBC's Phil Lebeau reports on NHTSA investigating Tesla's Model S due to a fatal crash that happened while using the car's self-driving mode.

The crush of pedestrian traffic flowed into Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan during an evening rush this month. Overcrowded sidewalks topped the list of residents’ concerns in a survey last year by a local community board in Lower Manhattan.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on the attack on Istanbul's main international airport (all times local):

NEW YORK (AP) — So close, yet so far.

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of former Vice President Al Gore's daughter during a protest of a Boston pipeline (all times local):

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With rising security concerns in Turkey, the US military is taking steps to bar civilian staffers and military families from traveling to country.

Archaeologists have discovered a tunnel dug by Jews to escape the Nazis in Lithuania — a sign of resistance in a land where 90 percent of the Jewish population perished during the Holocaust.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to UCLA professor Darnell Hunt about the new class of members on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

In the 1930s, the United States government was absorbed with a different kind of gun violence: prohibition-era gangsters using fully automatic weapons of war, with civilians often caught in the crossfire. NPR looks back at how the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, passed the nation's first firearms legislation, which still holds today.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Hans Kundnani of the German Marshall Fund of the United States about where the European Union goes from here post Brexit.

Future Shock by Alvin Toffler was a huge sensation when it was published in 1970. The book perfectly captured the angst of that time and prepared society for more changes to come.

The BFG is the new Steven Spielberg movie based off the Roald Dahl book. It's about a girl and a friendly giant triumphing over bullies and adversity. And it's got something familiar about it, too.

In District Merchants, Shylock is still Jewish, but half of the other characters are freed slaves. The playwright says he was inspired but a reference to slavery in Shakespeare's original text.

The question of who will lead Britain into its post-European Union future just got thornier. The colorful Brexit supporter, Boris Johnson, a front-runner, pulled out of the race to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Andrew Gimson, author of Boris: The Rise of Boris Johnson, about the flamboyant British politician and what his future holds now that he's taken himself out of the running for prime minister.

Iraqi and U.S. forces claim to have killed hundreds of ISIS fighters and destroyed hundreds of their vehicles in a convoy moving across the desert.

As Turkey claims the three bombers who killed at least 44 people Tuesday were from other countries, the country buries the dead, including several members of the same family from Saudi Arabia.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Andrew Weiss, an expert on Central Asia at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on the origins of the bombers responsible for Tuesday's attack in Turkey.

There are now 47,000 homeless people in and around Los Angeles. The number of homeless women living on the streets has increased dramatically, and many are at risk of violence and sexual assault.

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Rio Olympics: Ryan Lochte and Michael Phelps posted the top two times Thursday in the 200-meter individual medley preliminaries at U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

UNC alum Blair Ellis will be press secretary with energy, commerce committee