Новости за 08.04.2017

A stranded great white shark caused quite a stir along the California shore on Friday. Dozens of people gathered on the cliffs of Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz to watch the 8-foot shark trapped in the shallow reef. Video from CNN affiliate KSBW then captured the still-alive shark rolling in the incoming tide — bruised […]

A man arrested after a stolen truck plowed into pedestrians on a busy Stockholm street is being held on suspicion of terrorism offenses and is likely to be the driver of the vehicle, authorities in Sweden said Saturday The attack Friday in the heart of Sweden’s capital left at least four people dead and injured […]

A Russian frigate armed with cruise missiles was heading to the Mediterranean in an apparent show of force a day after the first direct military strike by the US against the Syrian regime. Russian state media reported that the frigate, the Admiral Grigorovich, would call at a logistics base at Tartus, Syria. Russia also pledged […]

A man arrested after a stolen truck plowed into pedestrians on a busy Stockholm street is being held on “suspicion of terrorist crimes through murder,” a government official said Saturday. The attack Friday in the heart of Sweden’s capital left at least four people dead and injured a dozen more. Nine of the injured — […]

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Friday blamed Russia for Syria’s links to chemical weapons, condemning Moscow for breaking an agreement to dispose of Syria’s stock of deadly gas. On CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” Friday night, Blumenthal said Russia “clearly” failed to uphold its end of a bargain made between Russian President Vladimir Putin and former […]

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said she’s “skeptical” that Bashar al-Assad’s regime was behind the chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of people in Syria. Gabbard’s remarks came after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said, “We have a very high level of confidence that the attacks were carried out by aircraft under the direction of the […]

It’s a photo of coal that in any other situation probably wouldn’t raise any eyebrows. But when a tranquil hiking scene was replaced by a wall of coal on the home page of the Bureau of Land Management’s website, more than a few people took notice. The agency, best known for managing millions of acres […]

The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a decision to strike down a ban on same-sex couples becoming foster parents. The court compared the ban on its decision to “a sign reading ‘Whites Only’ on the hiring-office door.” Since 1995, same-sex couples had been barred from becoming licensed foster-care providers in Nebraska. “This is a victory for […]

President Donald Trump has one very vocal supporter of his decision to launch military strikes on Syria — a 7-year-old girl. Bana Alabed, a young Syrian refugee who now lives in Turkey, tweeted out her feelings a few hours after the missile attack began. “I am a Syrian child who suffered under Bashar al Asad […]

Humans have been to the Moon and explored almost every corner of the planet — but there’s one place they have never been. A group of Japanese scientists said they plan to be the first group to successfully drill into the Earth’s mantle, the planet’s vast molten-rock interior, which lies just beneath the outer crust. […]

Storms that blew through the eastern US on Wednesday left a trail of disruption at Delta Air Lines that the carrier was still mopping up more than 72 hours later. The No. 2 US airline said it had canceled around 3,000 flights in the wake of Wednesday’s storms that left passengers stranded and frustrated during […]

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping established a new framework for high-level negotiations on a range of issues and pledged to make progress on trade negotiations within the next 100 days during meetings here Thursday and Friday, top US officials said. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson touted the first summit between the leaders […]

New satellite imagery released by ImageSat International shows the damage 59 US Tomahawk missiles inflicted at Syria’s Shayrat airfield. The United States says Assad forces used the airfield to conduct Tuesday’s chemical weapons attack on rebel-held Khan Sheikhoun, leaving at least 86 townspeople dead. “Initial indications are that this strike has severely damaged or destroyed […]

Bill O’Reilly is the signature star of the Fox News Channel — in so many ways. He has the biggest ratings, the biggest profile, and the longest track record of saying whatever he damn well wants and getting away with it. It is, still, a reasonable question whether any of that will change, even as […]