Новости за 30.06.2016

Longview police officers on Tuesday morning responded to a report of vandalism at Kessler Elementary School.

Cowlitz County Commissioner Dennis Weber has a proposal for economic development — create a four-year college.

A short section of South Pekin Road near Kalama will close for six hours Saturday night to make way for a fireworks show, according to the Cowlitz County Public Works Department.

Sports Calendar, June 30-July 1 Baseball L.A. Dodgers at Milwaukee MLBNet Chicago Cubs at N.Y. Mets MLBNet Giants at A’s CSNBA CSNCA (680,95.7) Basketball WNBA: Pro-Am: Dream Team vs. Bay Raiders, at Kezar Pavilion College World Series Championship, Game 3: Coastal Carolina ESPN Golf PGA Europe: French Open GolfCh. PGA: Bridgestone Invitational GolfCh. PGA: Barracuda Championship GolfCh. Soccer Euro 2016 quarterfinal: Swimming Olympic trials (delayed) NBCSN Olympic trials (delayed) Channel... Читать дальше...

For a society that does not understand the dignity of labour, an MBA-turned-driver is hard to place.

Barack Obama has come to have to respond to Donald Trump and indeed this speech, on friendly and advantageous soil, would be, in part, about all that and everything else that might be pursued instead, even if the spectre was never named.

Plus, a look at some SPY calls, Netapp, and volatility index buy signals.

The U.N. Security Council has voted to extend its peacekeeping mission in Darfur for a year.

Since taking office, President Obama has sent U.S. troops into action on land or in the skies of seven countries on two continents. Obama's administration has authorized Navy SEALs to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and approved the fatal drone strike on an American cleric in Yemen. Here is a...

Los Angels de Anaheim empezaron la semana a 19 juegos de la cima de la División del Oeste de la Liga Americana, con cuatro lanzadores estelares fuera de acción.

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Nearly half of all inmates in US federal prisons are serving sentences for drug offenses.

But exactly which drugs are getting people locked up?

In more than half of the 50 states, it's meth. According to research from the United States Sentencing Commission, methamphetamine produced more offenses than any other drug in 27 states, including much of the West, Midwest and the South.

DrugAbuse.com put together a graphic using data from the sentencing... Читать дальше...

Iraqi Ministry of Defense

A series of airstrikes by U.S. forces outside the Iraqi city of Fallujah killed 250 ISIS militants on Wednesday, reports said.

The Iraqi Ministry of Defense posted video showing the strike against an ISIS convoy. About 40 vehicles were destroyed, officials told Reuters and ABC News.

The airstrike came after Iraqi and U.S. officials declared the city liberated from ISIS forces. Fallujah fell into militant hands in early 2014, the group's first major victory to claim territory in Iraq. Читать дальше...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Michael Phelps surged to the wall, and then whipped around to spot his time.

The Washington Post investigated Donald Trump’s charitable contributions and found Trump often makes promises to donate but the proof of the donation is rarely found. Reporter David Fahrenthold joins MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell for more.

What’s a wilder idea, a team wanting Stephen Jackson to coach or Jackson coming back as a player? How about both? Marc Stein of ESPN: I'm told Golden State has shown interest in Stephen Jackson in a coaching role . But Jackson, 38, hopes to make a PLAYING return next season — Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) […]

Nagaland will bid a final farewell to the departed Naga leader Isak Chishi Swu, chairman of NSCN (I-M).The body will arrive at Dimapur airport on Thursday afternoon.

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell finally got a chance to break out the superlatives. Junior Guerra allowed two hits over eight innings, Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer and a two-run double and Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit a two-run shot to carry the Brewers to a 7-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on

Steven Stamkos insisted all along that he wanted to stay put in Tampa Bay to win the Stanley Cup.

Steven Stamkos insisted all along that he wanted to stay put in Tampa Bay to win the Stanley Cup.

Steven Stamkos insisted all along that he wanted to stay put in Tampa Bay to win the Stanley Cup.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six months after announcing intentions to double the number of female and minority members in its ranks by 2020, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 683 new members to join the organization.

Leaders of the YMA's central committee and representatives of various political parties in Mizoram said they faxed an invitation to the Prime Minister's office on May 19, after which two YMA top leaders visited the PMO.

David Bromwich

Politics, Americas

An incorrigible belief in the purity of one’s motives is among the most dangerous endowments a politician can possess.

IN THE early 1970s, Hillary Clinton was a familiar face in the left-liberal milieu she had cast her lot with: a volunteer for the Yale Law School watchdog committee to monitor fairness in the trial of the Black Panther leader Bobby Seale; a worker for Marian Wright Edelman’s Washington Research Project (the precursor of... Читать дальше...

Elbridge Colby, Jim Thomas

Security, Americas

Preserving U.S. alliances makes us stronger.

DOES THE United States benefit from having allies? In recent months, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has voiced skepticism about the value of core American allies in Europe and East Asia. Trump argues that U.S. allies are free riding off the United States, and that their contributions to U.S. security are no longer sufficient to justify either the risks or the costs they impose on Americans. Читать дальше...

Rachel Maddow gives an exclusive first look at new PPP national polling numbers showing relatively close race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but in one question, "Giant meteor hitting the Earth" polled surprisingly well.