Новости за 28.03.2016

The U.S. Capitol went under lockdown Monday afternoon after gunshots were reported at the Capitol Visitor Center. The shooter is reportedly in custody.

The U.S. Capitol and the White House were on lockdown Monday after gunshots were reported at the Capitol's visitors center. Workers around the Capitol were told by authorities to "shelter in place."

Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) famously tanked his own career — not once, but twice — with sexting scandals. Almost three years after his mayoral primary bid, Weiner sat down with The Huffington Post to reflect on what happened.

To Kill a Mockingbird's Harper Lee lived a famously reclusive life in Monroeville, Alabama — but she still took the occasional trip out of town. However, Lee might have preferred staying home during one such excursion, when she had the great displeasure of visiting one of Donald Trump's casinos, The New Republic reports.

It seems like Donald Trump can't go more than a day or two without injecting new derogatory comments about women into the news cycle. BuzzFeed politics reporter Andrew Kaczynski found that in particular, the Republican presidential frontrunner likes to critique women's skin.

Husain Abdullah, a free agent NFL safety, announced his retirement Monday, ESPN reports. The player cited health concerns as his top reason for the announcement after playing just seven seasons in the league.

The Secret Service has banned guns from the Republican National Convention, effectively putting to rest a petition that had raised over 43,000 signatures calling for open carry in the Quicken Loans Arena. The Cleveland arena's standing policy prohibits firearms inside, although Ohio is an open carry state, The Hill reports.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has been angling for a New York debate with frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the run-up to the state's April 19 primary. Clinton's campaign hasn't agreed to an extra face-off yet, and may not, suggested chief strategist Joel Benenson.

You probably know the story of Little Red Riding Hood, but how about "Little Red Riding Hood (Has a Gun)"? This spin on a classic is one of two re-imagined fairy tales published online by the National Rifle Association. The group is hoping to make the Grimm Brothers' classics "less grim" by adding firearms, The New York Times reports.

Syrian forces recaptured Palmyra from Islamic State militants Sunday, but getting the ancient city back in shape after nearly a year won't be an easy process, The Wall Street Journal reports. The terrorist group razed residential neighborhoods, damaged a 2,000-year-old temple and parts of another temple, and three ancient tombs.

Belgian authorities released the only suspect to have been arrested directly in relation to the Brussels terror attacks, citing a lack of evidence. Faycal Cheffou was reported to have been heavily involved in Tuesday's terrorist attacks when he was detained last week; he was released Monday after he was mistakenly identified as the "man in the hat" who appears in widely circulated airport surveillance footage shot just before the attacks. Authorities renewed their call for information about the man in the hat on Monday... Читать дальше...

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is very much alive, but that didn't stop someone from erecting a tombstone for him in New York's Central Park:

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R) said Monday he'll veto an anti-LGBT religious freedom bill, ABC News reports.

Ben Carson, who endorsed Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump after exiting the race himself, told Fox & Friends on Monday morning that Republicans trying to sidestep nominating him with a contested convention would mean "absolute destruction" for the party.

Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are reportedly no longer making customary congratulatory calls to each other's campaigns after primary losses. While they (or their high-ranking aides) made the calls early on, in more recent races both candidates have declined to phone each other with their compliments and concessions.

Donald Trump won about 3 percent more votes than Ted Cruz in the Louisiana Republican primary, but Cruz stands to walk away with as many as 10 more delegates from the state supporting him at the Republican National Convention thanks to arcane delegate allocation rules (which vary widely by state).

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) of his corruption charges, the Chicago Tribune reports. In 2014, a federal appeals court threw out five of his 18 convictions.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro was none too thrilled with President Obama visiting his country in March. Castro, who did not attend Obama's meeting with his brother and current president, Raúl, wrote a scathing letter about the visit in state newspaper El Granma. He took issue with Obama's criticism of Cuba, Politico reports.

The New York Times is apparently only able to very thinly mask its criticism of Donald Trump. Read the most snarky, underhanded remarks in their foreign policy interview with the Republican frontrunner, below.

Individuals and advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Monday against North Carolina over the state's new law restricting bathroom access for transgender people and barring local anti-LGBT discrimination ordinances, BuzzFeed News reports.

Lazy coworkers don't just exist in the office — it turns out the animal kingdom has its equivalent of the guy who takes two-hour coffee breaks. But rather than being a detriments, a study by Eisuke Hasegawa of Hokkaido University in Japan found that communities populated by lazy individuals are actually more resilient in the long run.

A Texas woman survived a tornado in December with her son, only to have her house mistakenly torn down last week when Google Maps navigated a demolition company to the wrong block.

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California lawmakers have reportedly reached a deal with labor unions to raise the state minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next few years, starting with an increase from $10 an hour to $10.50 next year. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) is expected to make a formal announcement as early as Monday. The tentative agreement would avert a potentially costly campaign to let voters consider a proposal to hike the state minimum wage this fall.

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Al Jazeera announced Sunday that it will cut about 500 jobs, mostly in Qatar. Читать дальше...

If you have 10-seed Syracuse in your bracket's Final Four, you are probably feel pretty smug: Only 0.4 percent of NCAA men's basketball tournament brackets listed the Orange progressing to the Final Four, SB Nation reports. And for a smart reason reason, too: Syracuse's defeat of top-seeded Virginia on Sunday was historic. No 10th-seeded team has ever made the Final Four.

Facebook rolled out its "safety check" feature in October 2014 to give its users a way to assure friends and family they were safe after natural disasters. Then, after last fall's Nov. 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, Facebook began activating "safety checks" for major terrorist attacks and other violence. When a suicide bomber attacked Gulshan-e-Iqbal park in Lahore, Pakistan, on Easter Sunday, with an offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban taking responsibility for murdering at least 72 people and... Читать дальше...