Новости за 23.11.2016

As a contractor worked his way with white primer across the giant wall of what is now a privately run Howard Johnson, a community controversy bubbled up in its place. The mural's artist, Sam Welty, posted an objection on Facebook, and news sailed across the close-knit community.

Police upped security at the headquarters of France's criminal investigations police Wednesday as investigators who were questioning five suspects in an alleged terror plot sought to identify their potential targets from a seized mobile telephone, officials said.

Without the Kippings knowing, the man who repossessed their car set up a Gofundme account to try to pay off the balance. When the Kippings saw their car returned home Monday, after a 3½-day absence, they both cried.

America is a strong country, but it’s a fragile one, too. Trump says he wants to put it back together, but the job will be harder because of the damage he did himself.

When he was elected president in 1789, George Washington was one of the nation’s largest landowners. Most of his holdings were on the wrong (western) side of the Appalachian Mountains, though, and thus of dubious financial value.

In "Nocturnal Animals," revenge is a dish best served in manuscript form. One ordinary day in her unhappy marriage, cash-strapped LA art gallery owner Susan, played by Amy Adams, receives a plain brown envelope. Inside is the new novel written by her ex-husband, portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal, titled "Nocturnal Animals," with a note attached suggesting they reunite sometime soon.

Navy quarterback Will Worth is on pace to put up better statistics than Keenan Reynolds, who was named Co-Offensive Player of the Year in the AAC and finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting. So should Worth be a Heisman Trophy candidate?

At the "Festival of Holidays" at Disney California Adventure, guests are treated to a celebration including Christmas, Diwali, the Eastern Festival of Lights, Hanukkah and Kwanza.

Interviews with Florida voters shed some light on one reason the pollsters and the pundits got the election wrong: Trump had an invisible army of secret supporters who preferred not to voice their views to hostile friends and relatives.

Two artists – surfer Randall Zorn and retired U.S. Army Special Operations Col. Gary “Butch” Cassidy – led vastly different lives but a passion for art has fueled their friendship over decades.

Finland's defense minister said he doesn't see the recent deployment of Russian missiles in the Baltic Sea region as a direct threat, but warned Wednesday that a negative spiral of actions and counter-actions could cause "something to happen, even if only accidentally."

Strikes at Deutsche Lufthansa will wipe out thousands of flights after a failed bid to have a pilot walkout over pay declared illegal led a union to extend the action by two more days.

He asked his sweetheart to marry him four times before she finally said yes. The 91-year-old Navy veteran exchanged wedding vows with his 76-year-old bride on Sunday.

James C. McCloughan, 70, was a 23-year-old medic who over the course of a bloody, two-day battle — and despite being sprayed with shrapnel from a grenade and shot in the arm — returned over and over again to retrieve wounded soldiers from the battlefield under fire.

The good news: A prevalent six-week PTSD treatment that is proven to help reduce symptoms or eliminate the diagnosis in civilians also works for active-duty servicemembers, according to a new study. The bad news: The rates of success in the six-week treatment were lower among the servicemembers.

Installed in 1974, the memorial misspells the word Vietnam as “VIEINAM” and omits the names of four of the county’s war dead. It also misspells the name of one of the servicemen.

A former French Legionnaire who rose through the ranks of the Islamic State extremist group has been named by the U.S. as a key figure in the Nov. 13, 2015, attacks in Paris and those in Brussels and the leader of a 300-strong brigade of foreign jihadis.

Here is what comes from reflecting on what’s right, for being grateful, for saying thanks, thanks, thanks. Higher spirits. Greater happiness. Even joy. More hope. More energy to fix what needs fixing.

President-elect Donald Trump’s flirtation with Mitt Romney as a possible pick for secretary of state has injected a sliver of hope and change into an evolving administration that could use some.

Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces clashed with Kurdish-led forces on Wednesday in northern Syria, where both are fighting the Islamic State group.

About 56 soldiers with the 14th Human Resources Sustainment Center, 1st Theater Sustainment Command are headed to the Middle East to support military operations. They said farewell to their families Tuesday night at Fort Bragg.

The German carrier will scrap 912 flights scheduled for Thursday on top of at least 876 lost Wednesday. Premium flights such as Los Angeles-Munich and 10 out of 12 services from Frankfurt to London Heathrow are among those scrapped.

The Pentagon comptroller has warned Congress that continuing to rely on stopgap spending bills will undermine U.S. forces in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a memo exclusively obtained by CQ Roll Call.

The commander of the Estonia Navy has resigned after customs officials said they found smuggled alcohol and cigarettes aboard an Estonian ship taking part in NATO operations on the Baltic Sea.

Here’s a pathway to peace that our new president might follow.