Новости за 25.06.2015

ATLANTA (AP) — Grant Hill always wondered why the Atlanta Hawks struggled to attract big-name free agents.

PARIS (AP) — France's interior minister, in a bid to halt a day of sometimes violent protests by taxi drivers angered by UberPop, said Thursday that the low-cost car service must be shut down. Bernard Cazeneuve's announcement came after striking taxi drivers angered at a loss of income caused by cheap services like UberPop blocked highways, burned tires and smashed cars around France. Riot police chased strikers from Paris' ring road, where protesters torched tires in the middle of the roadway and swarmed onto exit ramps at rush hour. Читать дальше...

PARIS (AP) — France's interior minister, in a bid to halt a day of sometimes violent protests by taxi drivers angered by UberPop, said Thursday that the low-cost car service must be shut down. Bernard Cazeneuve's announcement came after striking taxi drivers angered at a loss of income caused by cheap services like UberPop blocked highways, burned tires and smashed cars around France. Riot police chased strikers from Paris' ring road, where protesters torched tires in the middle of the roadway and swarmed onto exit ramps at rush hour. Читать дальше...

Great Britain make hay in latter stages with raft of goals as China put to the sword in Antwerp

The Olympic city of Sochi was inundated with flood waters after torrential rains.

NEW YORK - Univision is dropping the Miss USA pageant and says it will cut all business ties with Donald Trump in a spiraling controversy over comments the Republican presidential candidate made recently about Mexican immigrants.

BUFFALO, New York - The newest work at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is a gaming app meant to put modern and contemporary art in front of kids by way of their smartphones.

OWINGS MILLS, Maryland - An unarmed black man was fatally shot Thursday by officers who thought he had a weapon when they were called to a home from which he was barred by protective order, police said.

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A $26 million visitors center complex at the Flight 93 National Memorial will be dedicated and open to the public Sept. 10, a day before the 14th anniversary of the ter…

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A $26 million visitors center complex at the Flight 93 National Memorial will be dedicated and open to the public Sept. 10, a day before the 14th anniversary of the ter…

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A $26 million visitors center complex at the Flight 93 National Memorial will be dedicated and open to the public Sept. 10, a day before the 14th anniversary of the ter…

The idea of Greece leaving the eurozone deeply frightened the powers-that-be just three years ago, but now many believe any contagion could be contained, writes Matthew Dalton.

NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina - A choir and band launched into one of Ethel Lance's favorite gospel tunes and roused hundreds of mourners from their seats Thursday in a crescendo of music at the first funeral for victims of the massacre at a historic black church.

PHILADELPHIA - Workers from The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News hoisted protest signs and passed around a cardboard cutout of Pope Francis while rallying for a new contract ahead of a Saturday deadline.

Stock-trading volume is expected to surge Friday, as the Russell indexes go through their annual routine of adding and removing stocks.

Stock-trading volume is expected to surge Friday, as the Russell indexes go through their annual routine of adding and removing stocks.

An Ohio mom was outraged when she took her children to see Pixar’s new Inside Out at a movie theater and the projectionist accidentally screened the horror film Insidious: Chapter 3. Jazmyn Moore expected a fun animated film rated PG and instead children were shown being tied up and murdered on the big screen at the Danbarry

The Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits Thursday, preventing a chain of reactions that would have collapsed most of the law.

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — An unarmed black man was fatally shot Thursday by officers who thought he had a weapon when they were called to a home from which he was barred by protective order, po…

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — An unarmed black man was fatally shot Thursday by officers who thought he had a weapon when they were called to a home from which he was barred by protective order, po…

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — An unarmed black man was fatally shot Thursday by officers who thought he had a weapon when they were called to a home from which he was barred by protective order, po…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz attacked Chief Justice John Roberts and other members of the Supreme Court in unusually harsh terms Thursday, referring to them as "rogue justices" and "robed Houdinis" after a 6-3 decision to uphold President Barack Obama's health care law. Cruz, a Texas senator, did not mention any current high court members by name in remarks on the Senate floor. [...] his speech included a thinly veiled reference to Roberts, part of the court majority... Читать дальше...

Every month, Etsy employees gather in the company's Brooklyn headquarters for the all-hands meetings ("y'all hands meeting" in Etsy parlance). If you don't fit in the room — it seats 75  — or you work in one of the crafty online marketplace's remote office, you can watch via livestream. 

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Republicans in Minnesota viewed the Supreme Court ruling Thursday upholding nationwide tax subsidies for health insurance as an opening to shift from the state's own exc…