Новости за 18.02.2016

The Golden Gate National Recreation Area is an 80,000-acre non-contiguous realm that flanks the Golden Gate Bridge and includes Alcatraz Island and chunks of three counties. The GGNRA was born in 1972 and since then it's grown bit by bit into an urban-rural, old-new hybrid that, like many of the national parks, has something for just about everyone.

I had a half-empty plane. I had Wi-Fi. I had an electrical outlet. I had a credit card. I had navigated to the Gogo payment page. Then I had to ... look twice. Yeah, I had to pay $19.99 for an hour of Wi-Fi on this Delta Air Lines flight.

The Los Angeles-area theme park is anticipating huge crowds for the April 7 opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. If you want to be one of the first to experience it, be prepared to pay more than if you want to go, say, on a slow Tuesday in September.

It is great to see Apple and Google supposedly standing up for consumer rights. But they need to provide us with the same protections they are demanding from the government.

Opposition parties in Japan submitted a resolution to the House of Councillors on Thursday calling for a ruling party lawmaker to step down over remarks concerning President Obama that some lawmakers called racist.

A Texas-based oil well firm said Thursday it was not at fault after radioactive material was reported missing from a storage bunker in southern Iraq.

The U.S. military is struggling to provide adequate therapy sessions for thousands of active-duty troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, a massive study released Thursday concludes.

The Pentagon has provided the Russian military with the general locations of U.S. special operations forces quietly inserted into northern Syria late last year, American defense officials said Thursday.

Two knife-wielding Palestinians fatally stabbed an Israeli civilian on Thursday and seriously wounded another at a supermarket in the West Bank before they were shot and wounded by an Israeli bystander, the military said.

Police released video and images of suspects in the case of a decorated Marine who was assaulted Friday outside a fast-food restaurant in Washington, D.C.

Unity between air and ground forces and a clear objective have enabled the Russians to turn the tide of the Syrian civil war, reverse the fortunes of their ally President Bashar Assad and leave the already muddled U.S. strategy in Syria in tatters.

Every additional day in a home with lead-contaminated water puts a young child at further risk. This is especially worrisome for children living in poverty who already experience a high prevalence of conditions that may interfere with optimal development and learning.

Kerry still thinks there’s a chance to persuade Russia and Iran, Assad’s chief foreign backers, that they should help force a change in Syria’s government. But that’s a distant possibility.

Before the freighter El Faro sank, the captain was warned by a text message from his vacationing second mate that a storm looming offshore was forecast to become a hurricane.

The European Union's top migration official told Austria Tuesday that its plan to cap the number of people who can apply for asylum is unlawful, but Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann refused to back down.

Four numbers hardly seem like a foolproof way to protect a smartphone. But that’s likely what has stumped federal law enforcement, who have been unable to break into the iPhone 5C used by one of the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters. That has led to a standoff between Apple and the FBI over the agency’s right to access the device’s contents — and its power to compel Apple to help it do so.

As many as 2.4 million active-duty and reserve component members, roughly 75 percent of the total force, will be invited in 2018 to switch to the new “blended” military retirement plan that Congress approved last year. To prepare for that “open season” year, officials are asking Congress to make four significant changes to the new retirement plan.

A popular right-wing Polish newsweekly, wSieci or "The Network," published a deeply provocative magazine cover this week. It shows a young blonde woman, garbed loosely in the flag of the European Union, being groped by three men. Only the six swarthy arms and hands of the assailants are in view, but the message is clear and barely needs the brutal cover line: "The Islamic rape of Europe."

Russia has promised to protect Kurdish fighters in Syria in case of a ground offensive by Turkey, a move that would lead to a "big war," the Syrian group's envoy to Moscow said in an interview on Wednesday.

The design phase for a renovation estimated at $10 million for the Sam Rayburn Medical Memorial Veterans Center in Bonham is now complete.

The Obama administration said Thursday that a proposed Russian sale of fighter jets to Iran would violate a U.N. arms embargo on Tehran, setting up another standoff related to last year's nuclear negotiations.

As Bowe Bergdahl endured the moments, hours, days and years alone in a dark room or metal cage, he considered how he’d ended up a captive to the Taliban.

A visit to an Antarctic research station Wednesday by the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church might seem like an extravagant detour for the 69-year-old Patriarch Kirill. After all, he had just wrapped up a busy Latin American trip that included historic talks with Pope Francis in Cuba. But take a closer look at Kirill, and the polar swing begins to make more sense.

Staid and stylish home decor is under attack by a military aesthetic that is having a moment. The look is a by-product of a war culture that has grown up around more than a decade of global unrest and boots on the ground.

Dicing a raw sweet potato while under a time crunch requires a sharp knife, steady hands and steely nerves — for both the student and the mentor.