Новости за 04.05.2016

Donald Trump's last Republican foe, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, was ending his quixotic presidential campaign Wednesday, cementing Trump's remarkable triumph as his party's presumptive nominee.

The Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being attacked by a chimpanzee is back in a Boston hospital after doctors discovered her body is rejecting tissue from the transplant.

A federal judge said Wednesday he may order Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton to testify under oath about whether she used a private email server as secretary of state to evade public records disclosures.

The good-natured argument over hugs started on the pier. Matthew Dugger, 11, spotted his stepdad aboard the returning amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge and wanted to be the first. “What? I thought we talked about this,” said Matthew’s mother, Katti Burns, looking over at her son.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement that formed Iraq, Syria and the other fragile nations of the modern Middle East. The past few weeks have provided dramatic new evidence, if more were needed, that the old colonial framework created by Britain and France isn’t working.

Charlie Keating IV, who died in a gunfight with militants in Iraq, was known in Phoenix for his family name but forged his own path as a high school and college track star and then as a Navy SEAL.

With Donald Trump's remaining rivals bowing out of the race, clearing his path to the nomination, Hillary Clinton is looking for ways to woo Republicans turned off by the brash billionaire.

What the poll shows is that the almost-certain general election contest between Trump and Hillary Clinton (barring some dramatic change of fortunes) is Hillary Clinton's to lose. What it also shows, perhaps more alarmingly to Team Trump, is that Clinton's current lead has expanded since an initial surge of interest in Trump last fall.

His rivals out of the way, Donald Trump has become the Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee.

Petty Officer 1st Class Charles Keating IV died Tuesday in an Iraq village as he helped rescue fellow U.S. servicemembers under attack from Islamic State fighters, the Pentagon said Wednesday.

The United States and Russia have persuaded Syria's government and moderate rebels to extend the country's fragile truce to the northern city of Aleppo, although sporadic clashes continue, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

Secretary Bob McDonald said Wednesday that the window of opportunity for Congress to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs’ backlogged benefits appeals system will soon be closing.

Underage drug mules, if apprehended, were rarely prosecuted in Cochise County. Prosecutors stopped accepting such cases in 1973 under the premise the county did not have the resources to handle them. The same was — and still is — true in other Arizona counties. Not surprisingly, that made children ideal drug mules.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the Islamic State group will suffer heavy losses if it continues attacking Turkey.

The most impressive superpower on display in “Captain America: Civil War” isn’t Tony Stark flying in a tin suit or Steve Rogers throwing a hefty shield like a Frisbee. It’s the whole team’s ability to give an escapist comic book movie an intelligent sense of connection to life in the modern world.

When Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi took office in 2014, the Obama administration hoped he would prove to be a Mr. Fix-It, a relatively moderate Shiite Muslim leader who would manage spoilers in his own sect, make long-overdue overtures to the country’s Sunni minority and work closely with the U.S. to reclaim territory captured by the Islamic State. Two years later, however, al-Abadi’s administration is teetering amid political turmoil.

The dividing line is now crystal clear. To one side stands an angry nativist mob and to the other men and women of decent character and honorable purpose.

Ted Cruz's reflex in a crisis moment wasn’t to help but to continue his march along the road to selfdom.

Back-to-back years of budget cuts are forcing the Marine Corps to slash in half its fleet of crisis response Ospreys in Spain, a move that comes as the force struggles to maintain its overall state of readiness, according to senior Defense Department officials.

NATO's new supreme allied commander, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, said Wednesday the alliance should consider what weaponry it could provide so Ukraine can better combat a pro-Moscow insurgency.

Fifteen years after the attacks that killed her husband, Lorie Van Auken thinks she still hasn't been told the whole truth about 9/11.

New York's iconic Stonewall Inn, where the modern gay rights movement took root, will become the first national monument honoring the history of gays and lesbians in the U.S. under a proposal President Barack Obama is preparing to approve.

Three Haqqani network operatives suspected of planning a bomb attack in Kabul have been arrested, the Afghan intelligence agency said Wednesday.

Freshman transfer from California has become the latest in a long line of scoring weapons for two-time Far East Division I Girls Soccer Tournament champion Kubasaki.

A Special Forces soldier arrested at a National Guard facility in Baltimore County on Monday had been absent without leave from his unit since September, according to court documents.