Новости за 25.07.2017

The top cop in the Baton Rouge Police Department submitted his letter of retirement to the city’s mayor on Monday, marking the second time a high-profile cop has stepped down in Louisiana’s capital city since the summer 2016 shooting death of Alton Sterling. “Unfortunately, I am in a situation that will not serve our police […]

The Girl Scouts want to see more women in STEM careers. The organization on Tuesday announced it is adding 23 new badges related to science, technology, engineering, math and the outdoors. Girl Scouts can now earn badges through activities like programming robots, designing model race cars, writing code and going on environmentally conscious camping trips. […]

The Taliban have received improved weaponry in Afghanistan that appears to have been supplied by the Russian government, according to exclusive videos obtained by CNN, adding weight to accusations by Afghan and American officials that Moscow is arming their one-time foe in the war-torn country. US generals first suggested they were concerned the Russian government […]

There are few pop culture icons better known on both sides of the Pacific than Jackie Chan. The action-movie star’s work across US and Asian film made him an obvious choice to represent Hong Kong Airlines and fly on the airline’s first flight to North America. The Hong Kong-based airline — as its name suggests […]

Evan Mendoza finished a home run shy of the cycle, and the State College Spikes brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth, but the Mahoning Valley Scrappers’ 13-hit attack was too much to overcome as the Spikes took a 5-1 defeat on Monday night at Medlar Field at Lubrano Park.

The Senate Monday confirmed controversial lawyer David Bernhardt as deputy secretary of the Interior — the number two executive in charge of managing natural resources. The vote passed 53-43. “David Bernhardt is a native Coloradan from the Western slope who has a deep understanding of Western land issues,” Sen. Cory Gardner said in a statement […]

Every night at 7 p.m., Singapore’s Boon Tat Street channels the spirit of the 1950s — before the city state’s skyscrapers stole the show — and magically transforms into a street food lover’s paradise. As the sun goes down, streetlights cast a glow. The road shuts to autos to make way for hawkers, who set […]

Jonathan McDonagh, a 57-year-old computer consultant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, gave up on statins years ago. He was having trouble remembering people’s names. His productivity at work was dropping. But he didn’t think that a medicine for his heart health could be fogging up his brain. “I found myself slowly sinking into a sea of troubles,” […]

Will the real Jared Kushner please stand up? The White House is asking us to believe that Kushner, the President’s son-in-law, is qualified to run point on an astoundingly broad portfolio of top-level domestic and international affairs, including negotiating Middle East peace, tackling the opioid addiction crisis, globe-trotting to Iraq with American generals, hosting an […]

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled Monday that local and state law enforcement officers do not have the authority to arrest and hold a person solely on the basis of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer. This is likely the first such ruling in a high state court, according to Massachusetts ACLU staff counsel Laura Rótolo. […]

Unless something goes terribly wrong, Congress is about to send President Trump a major piece of legislation that imposes tough sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 election, its ongoing human rights violations, its annexation of Crimea and military operations in Eastern Ukraine. In a striking rebuke to Trump, the Republican-led Congress is including […]

The leaders of the Democratic Party drove more than an hour west of Washington on Monday to unveil the economic agenda that was supposed to help them win back the voters who have abandoned them in droves. Minutes before they started, though, Jared Kushner — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser — stepped to […]

Sen. Bernie Sanders slammed Senate Republicans’ health care bill as “destructive” and “irresponsible” in a speech at the NAACP national convention in Baltimore on Monday. Calling the bill the “cruelest, most destructive and irresponsible piece of legislation ever brought to the United States Senate in the modern history of this country,” Sanders highlighted the possible […]

For nearly a year, President Donald Trump and several of his top advisers have repeatedly denied that there was any contact between members of the Trump campaign and individuals tied to the Russian government. But the veracity of that story appears to be crumbling under contradictory revelations from the President’s son, son-in-law and the current […]

Playing pundit again on Monday morning, President Donald Trump delivered a bleak assessment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ standing in his administration. Calling up the old reporter’s cliché, he diagnosed Sessions as “beleaguered,” an odd fit of meta-messaging to the country and the “A.G.,” who also happened to be the first US senator to back […]