Новости за 11.12.2016

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday called a recent CIA assessment of Russian hacking "ridiculous" and says he's not interested in getting daily intelligence briefings. Trump's remarks came as key congressional Republicans joined Democrats in demanding a bipartisan investigation into the Kremlin's activities.

The agency challenged the academy teams to swap campuses to find efficiencies. The Navy experts wound up at the modernist academy in Colorado Springs, while the Air Force experts found energy hogs among the Victorian structures in Annapolis, Md.

President-elect Donald Trump will be a good friend to Israel and hopefully the two countries can work together to dismantle the international nuclear agreement with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview Sunday.

A look at Palmyra, the archaeological gem that Islamic State fighters retook Sunday from Syrian troops in a major advance after a year of setbacks in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

They gather every Monday for lunch where they shoot the breeze, share stories and drink an insane amount of coffee.

The hubbub last week over President-elect Donald Trump’s criticism of Boeing and the cost of Air Force One overshadowed a potentially thornier issue for a leader who has pledged to keep jobs in America: Boeing wants to build F/A-18 fighter jets in India.

The former head of the National Security Agency said the agency's employees "are increasingly leaving in large numbers" for better opportunities in the private sector.

Submarines are known as the Navy’s “Silent Service,” but their contributions to World War II were honored by loud clanging Saturday during a moving tolling of a bell at Bowfin Park in Honolulu.

The review board considering whether to release some U.S. prisoners at the prison at Guantanamo has approved the release of a Yemeni captive of 14½ years, meaning that 21 detainees could leave the prison with security arrangements before President Barack Obama leaves office.

A news report says that staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Florida left the body of a veteran in a shower for nine hours after the veteran had died and proper pickup procedures to the morgue weren't followed.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has described President-elect Donald Trump as being a personality that has "no precedent in modern American history," but cautioned against judging him on his campaign rhetoric.

Donald Trump has narrowed his search for energy secretary to four people, with former Texas Gov. Rick Perry the leading candidate, according to The Washington Post.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he has decided to accept an arms deal being offered by China under concessional terms, in the latest sign of cozying relations between the once-hostile neighbors.

Iran's flag carrier finalized a major deal with U.S. plane maker Boeing Co. to buy $16.6 billion worth of passenger planes Sunday in one of the most tangible benefits yet for the Islamic Republic from last year's landmark nuclear agreement.

Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the top contender to lead U.S. foreign policy under Donald Trump, is known for his Russia connections and would be the Trump's most concrete outreach yet to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed or gravely wounded more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters in the battle for Mosul since October, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said. But, an estimated 3,000-5,000 IS fighters are still defending Mosul.

Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed or gravely wounded more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters in the battle for Mosul since October, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Sunday. But Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend told reporters there are still an estimated 3,000-5,000 IS fighters still defending Mosul.

Under the Constitution, the central obligation of the executive branch is “to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”

Donald Trump was greeted with cheers on his arrival at the annual Army-Navy game, basking in one of the nation's most storied football rivalries as he prepares to enter the White House.

Turkey declared a national day of mourning, launched a full investigation and paid tribute to the dead Sunday after two bombings in Istanbul killed 38 people and wounded 155 others near a soccer stadium. The attack was claimed by a Turkey-based Kurdish militant group.

We need to realize that America’s founding documents assume an implicitly religious anthropology.

Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed or gravely wounded more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters in the battle for Mosul since October, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Sunday. But Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend told reporters there are still an estimated 3,000-5,000 IS fighters still defending Mosul.

A deep stillness settled over the federal courtroom as graphic photos were shown of the nine people murdered last year at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church.

Egypt has seen a wave of attacks by Islamic militants since the military overthrew President Mohammed Morsi, a freely elected leader who hailed from the Brotherhood, in 2013.

China and Japan have continued their recent tit-for-tat moves in the airspace above the Western Pacific, with aircraft from the two Asian giants on Saturday again engaging in an apparently tense encounter over the high seas between Okinawa’s main island and Miyako Island.