Новости за 11.07.2016

A gunman killed two bailiffs and injured a deputy sheriff at a county courthouse in St. Joseph, Michigan, authorities said Monday. "The suspect has been shot and killed," Sheriff L. Paul Bailey said at a news conference.

Just before leaving on their long summer recess, the House of Representatives will put forward a series of bills imposing new sanctions on Iran — a symbolic effort to shine light on Iran's illicit behavior and alleged violations of the nuclear deal the Obama administration signed one year ago.

Amid scorching criticisms, Donald Trump said vastly expanded private care is one way to solve deep-seated corruption that faces the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs.

The easy, electric chemistry of the four leads in Paul Feig’s “Ghostbusters” acts like a firewall against the supernatural and the adolescent, alike, in this spirited reboot of the 1984 original.

Officials at Fort Campbell say a search is continuing for a 101st Airborne Division soldier who was swept away at the post by strong currents during severe weather.

Pokémon Go is a (possibly overrated?) augmented-reality game that launched in the United States late last week. In a nutshell, the game lays a sort of semi-transparent Poké-world over your actual, geographical location, which you can explore by physically walking around while staring zombie-like at your screen.

Pokémon Go exploded over the weekend, becoming the world's most popular mobile game almost literally overnight. But true to the "you-teach-me-and-I'll-teach-me" ethos, the app doesn't come with many instructions. It's basically up to you to figure out how to play.

Republican leaders in Congress are demanding President Barack Obama seek additional funding to pay for new troops heading to Iraq and those staying in Afghanistan, potentially setting up a bitter political fight just as lawmakers are negotiating a final defense policy bill.

Monday morning, in an interview with The Washington Post, Donald Trump suggested he was leaning toward an establishment politician who would be "good for unification," saying "I have such great respect for the general, but believe it or not that will be one of my strong suits."

The Mark V-A1 is manufactured by Northrop Grumman. It is driven by a human via remote control, weighs 790 pounds and has a top speed of 3.5 mph. It carries a camera with a 26x optical zoom and 12x digital zoom. When its arm is fully extended, it can lift a 60-pound weight. The "hand" at the end of the arm can apply a grip of about 50 pounds of force.

Touting himself as the "law and order candidate," Republican Donald Trump pledged Monday to crack down on Department of Veterans Affairs employees who fail to serve veterans, his latest in a series of prepared remarks aimed at articulating his policy agenda for his general election campaign.

The Iranian judiciary has indicted three dual-national prisoners, including an American businessman, and a Lebanese citizen who is working on contract for the U.S. State Department, Iranian news agencies reported Monday.

The Defense Department is close to releasing its updated policy for arming troops at facilities in the United States following several attacks, including the shooting deaths of four Marines and a sailor last July, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

Sharp fractures over policing and law enforcement continued to roil the nation Monday in the wake of a bloody, horrific week, as new details emerged in Dallas about the attacker who killed five police officers as well as those who survived the onslaught.

Dallas Police Maj. Max Geron penned a chilling, emotional account over the weekend of the horror that hit the city's police force when a lone gunman shot and killed five officers and wounded several others

Habib Wehbe disappeared in 1976, in the first year of Lebanon's 15-year civil war. He was 25 years old, young and politically engaged - a contributing writer to the Lebanese Communist Party's flagship newspaper and a secondary school teacher in the capital's suburbs.

Two sets of South African siblings appeared in court Monday on accusations that include plotting to blow up the U.S. Embassy and various Jewish institutions in South Africa.

A successful court fight waged for a decade by an Italian man claiming he was unfairly fired from NAS Sigonella means that commissary customers may buy only fruit, vegetables, beef and pork. Everything else, at least for now, belongs to Carmelo Cocuzza.

Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday he would step down in two days, clearing the way for Theresa May to become Britain's next leader as the country plots its exit from the European Union.

Fierce clashes and air raids on Monday across northern Syria, mainly in the contested city of Aleppo, killed at least 26 people and left scores wounded, according to reports.

The Wisconsin Army National Guard's command sergeant major was born in Cuba and fled the Communist country on a "Freedom Flight" as his parents left behind their property, their family and their homeland for a new life.

On Sunday, three days after Micah Johnson slaughtered five Dallas police officers and wounded seven others and two civilians in a rampage fueled by racism and rage, a more nuanced portrait of the killer began to take shape.

Military service changed the Dallas gunman from an extrovert into a hermit, his parents said in an interview excerpt published Monday.

The State Department says it is authorizing the voluntary departure of family members of U.S. government personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh.

Twin brothers have been charged with conspiring to blow up a U.S. mission and various Jewish institutions in South Africa.