Новости за 24.06.2016

After a thrilling NBA Finals, NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Chris Mannix of Yahoo! Sports about the state of the league overall.

Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley has died at the age of 89. He was perhaps most famous for his rendition of "O Death" on the soundtrack to the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Is it ethical for Baltimore's top prosecutor, who staked her reputation on charging six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, to keep trying for a conviction

NPR talks with people in London for reaction to the United Kingdom's historic vote to leave the European Union.

Brexit supporters in the north of England describe why they're celebrating the historic vote to leave the European Union.

The United Kingdom has voted by referendum to leave the European Union. The next steps are complicated.

The United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union has prompted calls for another independence referendum in Scotland and rumblings of breaking off from Britain in Northern Ireland as well.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with historian Simon Schama about what the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union means for both Britain and Europe.

A yellow fabric walkway floating on Lake Iseo in northern Italy has attracted twice as many visitors as expected and has been forced to close at night for essential repairs and cleaning. Made of some 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes covered with shimmering yellow fabric, the piers have suffered more wear and tear than expected.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos shook hands with Rodrigo Londono, commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, on Thursday. Along with a framework for a cease-fire, both sides agreed on a demobilization plan that will see guerrillas concentrate in rural areas under government protection and relinquish weapons to U.N. monitors.

Reggaeton superstar Don Omar took advantage of social media to announce a special collaboration: He's working on the remix of Chino &...

Britain's vote to leave the European Union may have shocked the financial markets and political elites, but supporters of Brexit in Romford, a working class area of London, are triumphant.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, about the outcome of the Brexit vote.

A new study looks at the psychology of giving wedding gifts. Researchers found when buying wedding gifts, people closest to the recipient often diverge from the registry to express their unique relationship to the recipient. But this leaves the recipient less happy than if they had received something from the registry.

The Brexit vote is a bitter blow for Germany, the most powerful member of the European Union whose chancellor will now struggle to stop the anti-elite contagion from spreading on the continent.

Swiss Army Man is an absurdist movie comedy in which a shipwrecked Paul Dano befriends a surprisingly talkative corpse, played by Daniel Radcliffe.

The directors of Swiss Army Man — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — talk to NPR's Kelly McEvers about what inspired them to make a movie about a flatulent corpse, and the deeper meaning behind it.

The new documentary, compiled from a deep archive of interviews, focuses on Frank Zappa's serious side — as a composer keen on exploring ugliness and difficulty.

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Typical morning: Wake up for work. Post #IWokeUpLikeThis selfie on Instagram. Put on your best "It's Monday and I'm late" outfit. Frantically search for keys. Get into your car. Wait impatiently at the Starbucks drive-thru. Rinse and repeat for the next four days.

Did you know? Simply by performing your daily morning rituals, you may be causing your paycheck to take a serious hit.

But how big of a hit, exactly?

According to a new CareerBuilder survey of more than 3,000 workers... Читать дальше...

Alex Hales and Jason Roy share an England ODI record opening partnership of 256 to steer England to a crushing victory against Sri Lanka.

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A top adviser to Hillary Clinton said Friday that Donald Trump's post-Brexit press conference from his Scottish golf course was "pathological" and offered proof he's a "reckless and erratic egomaniac."

"Donald Trump actively rooted for this outcome, and he's rooting for the economic turmoil in its wake," said Jake Sullivan, senior policy adviser with the Clinton campaign, during a conference call with reporters. "He said that the falling British pound is good for his golf business. Читать дальше...

Dov S. Zakheim

Security, Europe

The allies may lose valuable Scottish bases.

For sixteen years, from 1957, when six nations—France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries—signed the Treaty of Rome, until 1973, Britain was not a member of what was then called the European Economic Community. It managed to recover from World War II, albeit slowly, while at the same time “the Six,” as they were called, essentially assured the continent that war could no longer break out between France and Germany... Читать дальше...

Detectives are trying to identify a suspect in an armed robbery earlier this month at a business in North Las Vegas, police said. About 10:30 p.m. on June 7, a man ...

Greenwich Village’s beloved “Gay Liberation” statues got a little buffing Friday ahead of Pride Week.

The premiere of Adventures in Babysitting is just a day away and in case you’re feeling nostalgic for the original 1986 film, Disney just released a mash-up of the two movies! The new Disney Channel movie follows the original movie, but instead of just one babysitter to the rescue, there are two, played by Sofia [...]