Новости за 07.05.2016

A 15-year-old high school sophomore got a perfect score on the ACT (American College Testing) exam, reports Blavity.com.

The pre-med student and son of an addiction specialist who found pop singer Prince dead in an elevator at Paisley Park may be subject to criminal charges, reports People magazine.

The good news is that “Lauryn Hill” trending on Twitter Saturday morning did not mean that she has left this earthly plane. The bad news is that she showed up hours late for a concert … again, and was subsequently dissed, dismissed and defended on the social media platform.

Nate Moore has achieved a Marvel feat of his own: Going from reading comics as a kid to landing as executive producer alongside Marvel mastermind Stan Lee himself for the iconic brand’s latest global smash Captain America: Civil War. To say that’s worlds away for a kid who grew up with a single mother, two sisters, an older brother and a love for the movies in Clovis, California, a mid-sized town over three hours from Los Angeles, is far from cliché. An internship with Columbia Pictures led to... Читать дальше...

London elected its first Muslim mayor on Friday, a 45-year-old first generation Englishman, and former human rights lawyer.

In 2013 James McBride won the prestigious National Book Award for his novel The Good Lord Bird, which follows a teenage slave who joins abolitionist John Brown’s 1859 rebellion. Prior to that, McBride had authored the best-selling memoir The Color of Water and two works of fiction: Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna.

There are many ways to stop punishing people with criminal records for crimes for which they have already done the time.

The realization that I’m officially closer to 50 than I am to 18 hit me while I was playing basketball last week. My legs were feeling especially springy, so I decided to actually try to dunk instead of doing the nonchalant, rim-grab, “almost” dunk thing I do to convince people—myself included—that I can still dunk if I sincerely try.

A North Carolina mother is furious after her 15-year-old was suspended from school for possession of drugs, even though the student was only accused of smelling like marijuana and later passed a drug test, WNCN reports.