Новости за 13.11.2016

Even before Donald Trump chooses a Supreme Court nominee, the new president can take steps to make several contentious court cases go away.

Syrian State media says at least four civilians have been killed in rebel shelling of government-controlled Aleppo. Opposition activists report airstrikes in the rebel-controlled northern parts of the country killed eight.

The arrest last week of an Ohio man on charges of trying to fly to Libya to join the Islamic State group is one of several terrorism cases in the state in the past couple of years. Nationally, FBI Director James Comey has said, preventing extremist attacks remains the agency's top priority.

As he sat next to an Army veteran in an open-air jeep during the Veterans Day parade in a northern California town, U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman had his attention caught by a sight.

Long known for their close relationship with the military, the Carolina Panthers will continue the tradition Sunday as they face the Kansas City Chiefs through a number of initiatives honoring service men and women.

Sarah and Joshua Thomas have been married for 12 years. They have three children – 15, 13, and 4. But because Joshua currently serves in the United States Army and is often deployed, the couple were never able to have the wedding ceremony they wanted. Until Friday, on Veteran’s Day.

Iraq's special forces meanwhile battled militants in the city of Mosul itself, where they struggled to advance against waves of suicide car bombs.

President-elect Donald Trump's decision to empower his running mate Mike Pence to steer the presidential transition gives the soon-to-be vice president a powerful hand in shaping the incoming government and could foreshadow that he will play an outsized role in the White House.

Egyptian officials say some 200 supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood have been detained in connection with calls by the Islamist group for street protests against price rises.

Growing a beard first started as a coping mechanism for Nicholas Karnaze. He made the decision when he heard his friend and fellow Marine Justin Hansen was shot and killed during a combat operation in northwest Afghanistan.

From reality show to Oval Office is quite an unexpected career path. If Trump promised his fans they’d win so much that they’d get tired of winning, Trump may be weariest of all. Now what?

Bernie Sanders was in my district 10 times during the primary. How would any sane person not predict how this one would go? It was fixable for the general election.

Despite derision among political cognoscenti, Trump followed his gut instincts to go after the forsaken Rust Belt with his Washington-is-broken, the system-is-rigged, restore-American-greatness message.

One of the most important phases of the transition to power for President-elect Donald Trump includes briefings on U.S. intelligence capabilities and secret operations as well as separate descriptions of the extraordinary powers he will have over the military, especially contingency plans to use nuclear weapons, according to officials.

Dan Brown’s daughters will never know their father. But he’ll live forever at Gale Forsythe Park in Jerome.

There were gasps, followed by tears at a small church in northern Iraq as a group of Christians returned to their parish Sunday to find that everything had been destroyed, including the statue of the Virgin Mary which Islamic State militants had decapitated before they left.

As World War II raged in 1942, Gina Becker was trying to find a way to continue her education after graduating from high school in Libby.

It's been almost 50 years since 1st Lt. Jay Springstead served in Vietnam. Time has healed some of the wounds the war left, but post-traumatic stress disorder still haunts the U.S. Army veteran. On Friday, Springstead received his own personal caretaker to help him cope.

A senior congressional Republican says the GOP's agenda in the upcoming Congress doesn't include further investigations of Hillary Clinton.

Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities will deport a French journalist who was detained while conducting an interview in the southeast near the border with Syria.

Judy Pennington voted for Barack Obama in 2008, decades after her grandfather dug up and sold coal from his property. Elliott County, Kentucky, had followed the rest of the country into a deep recession, and Pennington "thought somebody young could bring new ideas in for the country." "But we didn't get new ideas. We didn't get anything," she says.

California dwarfs Virginia. But when it comes to sluicing Pentagon cash to the states, Virginia stands on top. California officials insist they’re speeding to the Pentagon puck now, too — thanks to attrition in the ranks of Virginia’s powerful Capitol Hill delegation, the planned pivot of American military forces toward Asia and a political push launched in Sacramento three years ago to vie harder for defense contracts and personnel.

The voters who made possible Donald Trump's victory included people who consider themselves moderates and came around to Trump after supporting other candidates.

Syrian State media says at least four civilians have been killed in rebel shelling of government-controlled Aleppo. Opposition activists report airstrikes in the rebel-controlled northern parts of the country killed eight.

Much about how the future unfolds will depend on how Donald Trump chooses to govern.