Новости за 09.08.2017

An unarmed Russian Air Force aircraft overflew the US Capitol, the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency and Andrews Air Force Base at low altitude on Wednesday as part of a longstanding treaty that allows the militaries of the United States and Russia to observe the other from the air, according to two people familiar with the […]

The Trump Organization won’t pay back its former golf club members without a fight. The company is appealing a judge’s ruling that required it to pay more than $5.7 million to about 65 former members of its club in Jupiter, Florida. The plaintiffs claimed that when The Trump Organization bought the club from Ritz-Carlton in […]

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu requested the resignations of four top officials Wednesday, including the director and the top engineer at the municipal water utility, after a historic rainstorm exposed critical weaknesses in the city’s unique drainage pumping operation. Meanwhile, with more heavy thunderstorms predicted through the weekend, hundreds of New Orleans property owners worked […]

When President Donald Trump delivered his fiery threat against North Korea on Tuesday, many observers mused that he sounded more like North Korean leadership — that is, bombastic and bellicose — than any American leader this side of World War II. But a look back at Trump’s past statements on Pyongyang’s nuclear program and the […]

A British contractor working for the US military in Afghanistan charged the government for seven luxury cars — including Porsches, a Bentley and an Aston Martin — and billed more than $50 million in questionable costs, according to the summary of a Pentagon audit. The audit from the Defense Contract Audit Agency, a summary of […]

Unseasonably warm ocean temperatures and a no-show from El Niño will contribute to what may be the busiest Atlantic hurricane season in seven years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Wednesday. NOAA estimates the ocean will see 14 to 19 named tropical systems this year, up from the 11-17 they had predicted in […]

The world is becoming a much more dangerous place. Since the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, one thing has been revealed to be true. America’s adversaries, especially North Korea, have grown stronger and been emboldened. In these perilous moments, instead of a White House focused completely on the threats at […]

Even as the Trump White House continues to calibrate the right response to the news that North Korea may have miniaturized a nuclear weapon, President Donald Trump started a very public fight with the most powerful Republican in the Senate.  “Senator Mitch McConnell said I had ‘excessive expectations,’ but I don’t think so,” Trump tweeted […]

A Google employee’s memo about diversity has gone viral, igniting a backlash and sparking a debate about gender bias and free speech in Silicon Valley. Here’s a quick recap:  The memo On Saturday, Motherboard published a 10-page document written by engineer James Damore.  Damore’s internal memo, titled “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” criticized the company’s diversity programs and claimed that women are […]

Anna H. Schaffner, 89, of DuBois died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017 at Christ the King Manor. Born Feb. 1, 1928 in Smithtown, Pa., she was the daughter of the late David and Florabelle (Hinderleiter) Hilliard. She was married to John P. Schaffner, who preceded her death on April 21, 2002. She retired in administration from […]

As President Donald Trump, his arms crossed and his expression dour, warned North Korea on Tuesday of US “fire and fury,” his new chief of staff sat across the table stone-faced. John Kelly, sworn into his role a week ago Monday, once carried with him the hopes of a Washington establishment who believed his long […]

President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Luther Strange days before the Alabama GOP Senate primary, praising the lawmaker’s job performance. “Senator Luther Strange has done a great job representing the people of the Great State of Alabama. He has my complete and total endorsement,” he tweeted Tuesday. The August 15 primary race for the Senate seat […]

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has sought to allay fears of a military confrontation with North Korea after President Donald Trump warned he could unleash “fire and fury” on the pariah state. Tillerson defended Trump’s comments but said there was no sign that the threat level from North Korea had changed and that Americans […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, delivered a stern warning to North Korea amid escalating tensions between the US and the rogue state over its nuclear weapons program. “(President Donald Trump is) not going to contain the threat, he’s going to stop the threat,” Graham, one of the Senate’s most hawkish members, said in an interview […]

French police hunting a man who rammed a car into a group of soldiers in Paris early Wednesday morning have arrested a suspect in the case. The man was shot and wounded as he was being apprehended on a highway north of Paris, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor told CNN. A Lille policeman was […]

Layla Sulaiman, an Iraqi refugee, didn’t choose to come to the United States. It was chosen for her. “We applied to United Nations, and we just wanted any place to resettle and to be safe,” she said. It wasn’t safe for her in Iraq, where there was violence in the streets. Still, she served as […]

A day after an incendiary rebuke of North Korea, President Donald Trump touted US nuclear capabilities on Twitter, potentially further escalating a growing standoff with Pyongyang. “My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before,” Trump wrote just before 8 […]

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga is disputing early results in the country’s presidential election that put his long-standing rival, incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, ahead. The election commission’s website showed that with 94% of stations reporting, Kenyatta was leading with 54.4% of the votes to Odinga’s 44.74%. Eight candidates were in the running for the presidency […]

Following Donald Trump’s massive upset last November, conventional wisdom settled on a simple concept to explain his victory: The media (and Democrats) took Trump literally but not seriously while his supporters took him seriously but not literally. It was a concise way of understanding the Trump phenomenon — and all of the cavalier, intemperate and […]

One of the top women at Google has issued a response to the controversial memo swirling around the company that suggested women are unsuited for tech jobs and more neurotic than men. Susan Wojcicki, CEO of Google unit YouTube, wrote a column for Fortune in which she criticized the memo and its argument that “biological […]

North Korea is threatening to launch preemptive military strikes against the United States, including targeting the US Pacific island territory of Guam, the latest salvo in an increasingly aggressive back-and-forth between Pyongyang and Washington. A statement issued by state-run media KCNA Wednesday ratcheted up the tension by saying that North Korea would “turn the US […]

Despite bellicose rhetoric coming from US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, analysts say there are no signs the US is planning a first strike on North Korea or that Kim will make good on threats to hit the US territory of Guam. The US military isn’t in any position right […]

President Trump’s fiery warning to North Korea has unsettled Asian markets. Stocks in South Korea and Japan dropped Wednesday after Trump ratcheted up the war of words with Kim Jong Un’s regime, saying it will “face fire and fury like the world has never seen” if it keeps threatening the United States. The president’s extraordinary […]

President Donald Trump issued an extraordinary ultimatum to North Korea on Tuesday warning Pyongyang not to make any more threats against the United States or they will “face fire and fury like the world has never seen,” during a photo op at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. “North Korea best not […]

With his jaw set and his arms crossed, Donald Trump delivered the most incendiary public threat by an American president in many decades. Trump, instantly escalating a nuclear showdown with North Korea, warned that if the isolated state did not quit making its own threats, it would face “fire and fury like the world has […]