Новости за 26.11.2016

“Some of us thought this day would never come and we would never live long enough to see that day. So it’s really just a remarkable night for us to know that he’s not here anymore," said 34-year-old Juan Alvarado, whose father fled Cuba for the U.S. in the …

The Cockpit union targeted Lufthansa's long-haul services, prompting 137 flight cancellations and affecting some 30,000 passengers. That was fewer than on previous days, when Cockpit members also hit …

Saturday's capture of the Hanano district came days after government forces and their allies launched an offensive in the area in deadly street battles …

Several people had flagged down the officer to report a person behaving aggressively and irrationally. The man immediately became confrontational when the officer approached and tried to flee on the …

The Investigatory Powers Bill — dubbed the "snoopers' charter" by critics — was passed by Parliament this month after more than a year of debate and amendments. It will become law when it receives the formality of royal assent next week. But big questions remain about how it will work, and the government acknowledges …

The Shiite militias, most of which are backed by neighboring Iran, have been bankrolled and equipped by the government since shortly after ISIS swept across much of northern and western Iraq in 2014. Many of these groups existed long before ISIS emerged …

The attack targeted a police station in Mogadishu's Waberi neighborhood while President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud had been visiting a university …

A decade ago, New Mexico ushered in a demographic trend that is likely to shape U.S. politics for decades to come. In 2006, it became the first state whose voting-eligible population switched from being majority white to ...

If Hillary Clinton had worked as hard over the past 16 years to abolish the Electoral College as she worked to win the Democratic nomination, she would be moving back into the White House in January ...

When the name was first unveiled on live television Tuesday night, it was confusing. Vegas Golden Knights. Wait a minute. What about Las Vegas? What about representing your city?

I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case ...

The Obama administration said Friday that despite Russian attempts to undermine the presidential election, it has concluded that the results ...

While the final 2016 electoral map leading to Donald Trump’s victory is historic, other facts are not so extraordinary. A white male won the presidency. The electoral vote margin was not overwhelming, and despite winning the Electoral College vote, Trump reportedly lost the popular vote tally. That, too, has happened in past elections ...

Eight years ago, when Barack Obama became president of the United States, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate minority leader at the time, stated that the Republican Party’s main agenda was to ensure that Obama’s presidency failed and that Obama would be a one-term president ...

"Even though the slot machines that are out there are beautiful machines with fantastic graphics, it's still the function of pressing a button and waiting to see what happens, And that's just not interesting."

If the entire perception of UNLV’s football season is going to come down to one game, it’s probably for the best that it’s the Fremont Cannon game. The annual rivalry meeting ...

Notre Dame should never be at risk of finishing a season 4-8. For many of the same reasons, Notre Dame should never get this many points on the betting line. ...

Now that they have a name, the Vegas Golden Knights have to put a team on the ice. The newly named franchise will get its first 30 players through the expansion draft in June, and ...

At a public bath in a Yokohama slum in the 1950s, a red-haired girl scrubs her skin with a pumice stone, hard, to try to get the white out ...

Authorities say a bolt-action rifle was fired during a gun show in Billings, Montana, injuring a man and a young girl ...

A school superintendent in Massachusetts has asked police to investigate after swastikas and other offensive graffiti were found on a rock outside of a school ...

Authorities in Alaska say four people, including a child, have been found dead in a Fairbanks hotel room ...

A small group of militants armed with guns and suicide jackets attacked a mosque at an army facility in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, triggering ...

Thousands of Filipinos, including more than a dozen nude students, protested against the hasty burial of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a heroes' cemetery, in a growing political storm that ...

President-elect Donald Trump has already built a wall — not on the border with Mexico, but on the border of his exclusive golf course in northeastern Scotland ...