Новости за 27.05.2017

Sometime soon the abruptly fired man who first announced that the FBI was investigating whether Donald Trump’s campaign cooperated in Russian interference in the 2016 election will meet with the man who now runs that investigation. They won’t need much in the way of introductions.

British police on Saturday released surveillance-camera images of the Manchester concert bomber on the night of the attack as they appealed for more information about his final days.

The Libya connection in the May 22 Manchester concert suicide bombing and Friday's attack on Christians in Egypt has shone a light on the threat posed by militant Islamic groups that have taken advantage of lawlessness in the troubled North African nation to put down roots, recruit fighters and export jihadists to cause death and carnage elsewhere.

Harold Katz didn’t require a crash course in Hebrew before his bar mitzvah next week in Wilmette, Ill. He started preparing 76 years ago, and his skills never got rusty.

John F. Kennedy was born 100 years ago Monday, and a new book recounts his brief but eventful presidency — and the style and wit with which he shaped the hopes of a generation — through day-by-day reports drawn from coverage at the time, right up to his assassination in November 1963.

"We must never permit murderers to define our time or warp our sense of normal. This is not normal." Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the graduating cadets at West Point on Saturday. "You will drive home a salient point... that free men and women will volunteer to fight, ethically and fiercely, to defend ... America."

An American Airlines passenger is in federal lockup in North Carolina, accused of attacking a flight attendant and leaping from the jet as it prepared to take off from Charlotte Douglas International Airport on Thursday.

British Airways canceled all flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday as a global IT failure upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy U.K. holiday weekend.

As he dashed through the Middle East and Europe, Donald Trump looked like a conventional American leader abroad. He solemnly laid a wreath at a Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, had an audience with the pope at the Vatican and stood center stage with Western allies at the annual summits that dominate the diplomatic calendar. But when Trump spoke, he sounded like anything but a typical U.S. president.

When an inmate riot erupted at a military prison camp outside Kabul, Staff Sgt. Cyndi Baltezore noticed that detainees hurled blows on male and female soldiers with equal ferocity. She also saw that it took troops of both genders rushing toward danger to quell the revolt. Eight years after that brawl, Baltezore is at the front of the Defense Department’s biggest test of whether she and other advocates of gender integration in combat units are right.

A Texas nurse who is in prison for the 1982 killing of a toddler has been charged with murder in the death of an infant a year earlier, and authorities said Friday that they think she may have killed up to 60 young children around that time.

Family, friends and fans from as far away as Iraq honored John Wayne on what would have been the iconic actor’s 110th birthday on Friday, May 26, during a ceremony to dedicate a park in his name.

The Pentagon plans to put its defense system up against an intercontinental-range ballistic missile for the first time Tuesday during a high-profile dry run designed to show rockets fired by North Korea’s unhinged dictator wouldn’t reach the U.S. homeland.

Melania Trump's first outing in the Sicilian sunshine was in a colorful floral applique jacket by Dolce & Gabbana that sells for $51,000, or several thousand dollars below the median U.S. income in 2015.

Well before he won the presidency in 1977, Jimmy Carter was impressed by the views of foreign policy expert Zbigniew Brzezinski. That Carter immediately liked the Polish-born academic advising his campaign was a plus.

Spc. Etienne J. Murphy, 22, of Georgia was involved in a vehicle rollover on Friday in Al-Hasakah, Syria, according to a statement from the Department of Defense.

While terrorism may top President Donald Trump’s agenda, European leaders keep pressing him on climate change and the environment.

President Donald Trump on Saturday said his maiden first trip abroad was a "home run" and he vowed to overcome the threat of terrorism, concluding a grueling five-stop sprint that ended with the promise of an imminent decision on the much-discussed Paris climate accord.

British Airways canceled all flights from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Saturday as a global IT failure upended the travel plans of tens of thousands of people on a busy U.K. holiday weekend.

Seven wealthy democracies ended their summit Saturday in Italy without unanimous agreement on climate change, as the Trump administration plans to take more time to say whether the U.S. is going to remain in the Paris accord on limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

The Navy women's lacrosse dream season ended in the quiet underbelly of Gillette Stadium late Friday night, with Boston College's locker room still screaming in jubilation after a 16-15 win over the Midshipmen.

Melania Trump thanked servicemembers at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, for sacrificing on behalf of the U.S. She said it's because of their "selfless commitment" and the sacrifices their families make that Americans are able to enjoy many freedoms.

Then-President Barack Obama complained three years ago at a gathering of European Union leaders that defense couldn’t be left just to the United States and Great Britain. But it was President Donald Trump who scared NATO leaders into accepting closer monitoring of their defense spending when he called the 28-member organization “obsolete” and threatened to pull out or significantly cut funding.

In 2010, the Obama administration announced the ambitious goal of ending homelessness among veterans. Statistics show that veteran homelessnes. Missing is the story of homeless veteran families many of whom struggle to find housing in safe neighborhoods instead of Skid Row, where their children are exposed to violence and drug use.

Syrian troops and allied militia have pushed back Islamic State militants, rebels and U.S-backed opposition fighters in a wide offensive in the country's strategic southern desert, the government-controlled media and a war monitor said Saturday.