Новости за 18.02.2017

Eric and Donald Trump Jr., who now lead the Trump Organization, watched as fireworks lit the sky over the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, on the outskirts of the city-state home to the world's tallest building and other architectural marvels. ...

Prosecutor Mark Lindquist says Deputy Bob Shaw "prevented further loss of life" when he shot and killed Bruce Johnson on Dec. 1 ...

Chicago police say a Catholic priest helped them obtain information as they investigated the shooting death of a 2-year-old boy. ...

SpaceX halted the countdown with just 13 seconds remaining. The second-stage steering issue actually cropped up several minutes earlier. But with just an instant to get the unmanned Falcon rocket airborne, flight controllers could not resolve the problem in time. ...

The National Weather Service predicted drying weather through Sunday followed by the return of wet weather in the region. But while flash flood watches for Southern California were canceled, Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area were facing a weekend return of heavy rain and winds that lashed them earlier in the week before the storm moves out. ...

Trump faces skeptical Democrats whose support he'll need and resistance from fiscal conservatives opposed to repealing a 2011 law that set firm limits on military and domestic spending. Unless the president figures out a way to mollify the disparate camps, he'll have a tough time delivering on a signature campaign promise to rescue the armed forces from a festering financial crisis. ...

Roughly 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were sent to desolate camps that dotted the West because the government claimed they might plot against the U.S. Thousands were elderly, disabled, children or infants too young to know the meaning of treason. Two-thirds were citizens. ...

At a stunning pace, Trump has riled world leaders and frustrated allies. He was dealt a bruising legal blow on one of his signature policies. He lost his national security adviser and his pick for labor secretary to scandal. He's seen forces within his government push back against his policies and leak confidential information. All of this has played out amid a steady drip of revelations about an FBI investigation into his campaign's contacts with Russian intelligence officials. ...

Mustafa Akinci says Greek Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades needs to publicly admit that legislation making the annual commemoration of a 1950 vote to unite the island with Greece compulsory in Greek Cypriot schools was erroneous. ...

No injuries were reported from the Torrance Refining Co. near Los Angeles and there were no evacuations or damage to any buildings outside the refinery, Assistant Fire Chief Steve Treskes said. ...

The latest round involves former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who this week was forced to resign following disclosures about his communications with the Russian ambassador on the same day that then-President Barack Obama announced sanctions against Russia for its interference in our election to help Trump and damage Hillary Clinton. ...

The animals’ turn came at the beginning of the month by taking down the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) site that reports on government regulation of roughly 9,000 animal-handling facilities, including laboratories, dog breeders, fur farms, circuses, zoos and aquariums. The site is used every day by animal-protection activists to monitor government enforcement of the 1966 Animal Welfare Act, the only effective federal law protecting animals. ...

Any sane individual tasked with what he faced would understandably decline. He had a returning roster of three players, one of whom dwells in constant injury hell. How he fielded a team in the time allotted is truly miraculous. And the fact that the team has won games is a tribute to his coaching ability. This was a good hire. ...

The Virgin Valley girls basketball team, led by senior Briana Todd, is making noise in Southern Nevada this year — loud enough to be heard all the way from Mesquite ...

If you had tens of thousands of dollars to spend to help refugees who recently arrived in the United States, you might think it would be easy to give it away to ...

The White House budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that President Donald Trump could eliminate to trim domestic spending, including ...

Anyone with an internet connection can see temperature and air sampling data that shows Earth is warming due to humans burning fossil fuels. But when it comes to learning what climate change means to pristine Sierra Nevada lakes, tapping ...

Some intuitive gamblers who were unafraid to wager on a high-priced proposition bet before the college basketball season began look like they’re only a couple weeks away from ...

Meanwhile, what we, the people, are doing to resist injustice, oppression, discrimination, hate, bigotry and authoritarianism is downright inspiring. Nonviolent action is reaching new heights of creativity in the United States, widening in frequency and participation. Here’s just a sample of how ordinary, extraordinary people have mobilized for justice in the past month. ...

he White House hasn’t responded to my inquiries, and Trump lashes out wildly at “the fake news media” without answering questions. He reminds me of Nixon, who in 1974 said Watergate “would have been a blip” if it weren’t for journalists “who hate my guts.” Soon afterward, Nixon resigned. ...

Trump has made numerous other references to Chicago’s homicide problems as a candidate and nominee — and at least four more times in the first three weeks after his inauguration. In each instance he sounds sympathetic, bemoaning how terribly “sad” Chicago’s situation is. Hosting a meeting of county sheriffs in the White House recently, he segued into how Chicago’s “hundreds of shootings a month” are “worse than some of the places that we read about in the Middle East, where you have wars going on.”... Читать дальше...

Here’s the latest installment of the Play of the Day, which uses odds from the South Point. Our three sports writers started with ...

Since Donald Trump entered office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have cracked down on undocumented immigrants, conducting coordinated raids that appear to target not only convicted criminals but also ...

The Islamic State group is hemorrhaging money with every piece of territory it loses, according to a new analysis that found that the group's "business model" is on the path to failure ...

A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads, opening sinkholes and leading to the deaths of at least two people ...