Новости за 05.08.2017

Southeast Asia's top diplomats slammed North Korea with a sharp rebuke Saturday over its intercontinental ballistic missile tests and admonished Pyongyang to comply with its duty of helping avert conflicts as a member of Asia's biggest security forum. ...

Both Braves’ starter Mike Foltynewicz and Marlins’ starter Dan Straily were ineffective in appearances earlier this week. ...

A newly installed constitutional assembly ousted Venezuela's defiant chief prosecutor Saturday, a sign that President Nicolas Maduro's embattled government intends to move swiftly against critics and consolidate power amid a fast-moving political crisis. ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone spearfishing in southern Siberia's mountains, the latest outdoor exploit for the action man and adventure-loving Russian leader. ...

As Dave Chappelle reflects on spending 30 years in comedy, he says he's grateful and humble to still be living his dreams onstage. ...

A Northwestern University professor and a University of Oxford staffer accused of stabbing a man to death in Chicago surrendered peacefully to authorities in California, eight days after the brutal attack. ...

Search and rescue operations were underway for three U.S. Marines who were missing after their Osprey aircraft crashed into the sea off the east coast of Australia on Saturday while trying to land. ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pledged to clamp down in government leaks that he said undermine American security, taking an aggressive public stand after being called weak on the matter by President Donald Trump. ...

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out; here are the real facts:

Democrats control every lever of power in California state government, and free from worrying about major losses to Republicans, they're training fire instead on each other.

Chinese giant panda experts and French zookeepers are working to ensure a panda cub's survival after its twin died during the first-ever birth of the rare animal in France. ...

A man who'd reportedly been running around in the southeast valley while armed and nude has been shot by Metro Police ...

When we think about the ebb and flow of majorities in American politics, we like to imagine that there is a clear link between politics and policy — between gaining power and having an agenda to implement, between winning votes and responding to substantive challenges, between FDR’s majorities and his New Deal or Reagan’s victories and his Reaganomics. ...

This is a season of gerrymandering. A federal court in Texas will soon rule on whether the state discriminated against minorities when it adopted its current congressional map. The Supreme Court will hear the biggest case of all in October: a challenge to Wisconsin’s partisan gerrymander with the potential to curb partisan gerrymandering nationwide. ...

Bald eagle. Peregrine falcon. California condor. ...

So far this year, here’s what our friends in the federal government have done for — and to — citizens who hope to find simple ways to save enough money for retirement without anyone robbing them blind ...

Sen. Lamar Alexander voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act numerous times and wanted it gone. Now he is trying to save it — at least for the moment ...

The Rebels have made defending the deep ball their No. 1 priority heading into the 2017 season, and Hough is taking the challenge head-on. The junior was recently elevated to ...

Americans are so fixated on the issues of health care and Russia that tightening sanctions on North Korea almost escapes notice. One minute the networks are vying with one another on what passes as “analysis” on President Trump’s efforts to replace Obamacare with Trumpcare, and the next they’re covering the latest “revelation” of whatever Trump and his family members and friends might have asked or told the Russians. ...

History may record that the planet’s climate crisis was avoided thanks to the efforts of three countries: China, Germany, and France. Or not. ...

Reggie Williams cried his eyes out earlier this year watching “Disgraced,” the Showtime documentary chronicling the murder of his friend and Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy in 2003 and the ensuing fallout. The only comfort the local man found was ...

The head of Venezuela's newly installed constitutional assembly pledged to move quickly against President Nicolas Maduro's political opponents, beginning as early as ...

Leaked transcripts of presidential calls aren't just embarrassing to Donald Trump. They could undermine faith in Washington's ability to protect confidential conversations and intelligence ...

The betting was that law-and-order Attorney General Jeff Sessions would come out against the legalized marijuana industry with guns blazing. But the task force Sessions assembled to find ..

The proposal seemed modest in today's polarized political climate: The head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee suggested his group might help fund candidates who didn't share the party's support for abortion rights ...