Новости за 21.12.2015

Yes, the events in San Bernardino and elsewhere are terrible, but where’s the outrage over the other 30,000 gun deaths that occur in the United States every year?

In the dark shadows of those horrifying events which occurred in California, several news broadcasts have debated gun control from either extremes. If there is a middle ground, it has yet to be presented.

It is a personal privilege to inform the community that a local history collection to highlight and recall the efforts and challenges of those Charlestonians dedicated to the goals of tolerance and equal participation has been established at the Charleston County Academic Magnet High School.

Enough already. I’ve read Joe Riley’s bio, his news and his views, over and over.

A Dec. 13 letter titled "Sensible biking" is correct to assert that bicyclists carry the same responsibility as motorists. It’s important that the bicycling community understand this responsibility and ride accordingly.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Although he is just 22, Andrew Zeller is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Purdue University. He is one reason the school is a rare exception to the rule of unreason on American campuses, where freedom of speech is under siege.

There is a new crisis for the international effort to destroy the Islamic State, created by the Kremlin. The United States has stopped flying manned air-support missions for rebels in a key part of northern Syria due to Russia’s expansion of air defense systems there, and the Obama administration is scrambling to figure out what...

For insight into the presidential election of 2016, I can’t say I found anything exceptional among political books this year, with the exception of Jon Meacham’s biography of George H.W. Bush. This was certainly true of the plethora of self-serving campaign memoirs.

PARIS — How do you find a fresh perspective on the Holocaust? In his first feature, "Son of Saul," the Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes chose to depict the enormity through the specific. For most of the 107-minute fiction film, the camera remains fixed on the face of one inmate at Auschwitz-Birkenau as he races around the death...

LOS ANGELES — Maybe there is too much TV.

NEW YORK — The PBS series "Finding Your Roots" has discovered that political television’s polar opposite Bills — Maher and O’Reilly — are distant cousins.

BENTON, Archie,

DAVIS, Margaret Sue Ellington, 79, of Charleston, widow of Franklin Davis, died Friday. Arrangements by Smith-McNeal’s Downtown Chapel.

The construction business is booming, leaving the city of Charleston without enough building inspectors to keep up with the demand, city leaders say.

A delivery truck pulls into a subdivision, loaded with holiday goodies that traveled for days across country before landing on your doorstep.

Татарстан Гидрометеорология һәм әйләнә-тирә мохитне күзәтү идарәсе мәгълүматларына караганда, бүген – 21 декабрьдә, һава торышының берникадәр бозылу ихтиамлы бар. Синоптиклар фаразына караганда, бүген көн дәвамында – кичке сәгать 6га кадәр Татарстан районнарында начар метеорология шартлары үзен сиздерергә мөмкин. Төнлә төшкән томан иртәнге сәгатьләрдә дә саклана. Томан вакытында күз күреме 500 метрдан да кимрәк булачак. Көндез юлларда бозлавык саклана. Урыны белән кар, көн уртасына таба юеш кар һәм яңгыр явачак. Читать дальше...

Татарстан Гидрометеорология һәм әйләнә-тирә мохитне күзәтү идарәсе мәгълүматларына караганда, бүген – 21 декабрьдә, һава торышының берникадәр бозылу ихтиамлы бар.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - West Indies are considering a recall for leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo as they look to fight their way back into the series in the second test against Australia later this week.

(Reuters) - There was no great surprise in Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews' analysis of his side's five-wicket loss to New Zealand before lunch on the fourth day of the second test in Hamilton on Monday.

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. drone attacked a target in eastern Afghanistan at the weekend, a U.S. military spokesman in Kabul said, without giving further details.

(Reuters) - One person was killed and at least 14 were injured on Sunday night in what Las Vegas police called a "major accident" near the hotel and casino where the Miss Universe pageant was being held, officials said.

(Reuters) - New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum called him 'The King' but Kane Williamson swatted aside the praise after his record-breaking century capped a five-wicket victory in the second test against Sri Lanka on Monday.

LAS VEGAS — Authorities say one person was killed and 37 were taken to the hospital after a car plowed into pedestrians Sunday night on the Las Vegas Strip.

Dec 21 (Reuters) - New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum called him 'The King' but Kane Williamson swatted aside the praise after his record-breaking century capped a five-wicket victory in the second test against Sri Lanka on Monday.

MELBOURNE, Dec 21 (Reuters) - West Indies are considering a recall for leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo as they look to fight their way back into the series in the second test against Australia later this week. The tourists' bowlers were flogged to all parts of the Bellerive Oval during the innings and 212 run defeat in Hobart which opened the three-match series. Left-arm orthodox spinner Jomel Warrican, playing only his second test, took three wickets in Australia's only innings but they ca