Новости за 05.02.2018

There are going to be far fewer phones backstage at this year’s Oscars.

The second of three new Coast Guard cutters to be stationed in Hawaii arrived Sunday, strengthening the capabilities for search and rescue operations around Hawaii.

It's never too early to plan for your next weekend. Here are some of the best events happening around Europe Feb. 10-11.

On Monday, Berliners celebrated a once unthinkable occasion: The Berlin Wall has now been gone for longer than it stood. But on the same day, the city's authorities confirmed the discovery of a previously unreported stretch of the wall in the district of Pankow in northern Berlin.

Following Chief Warrant Officer Mitch Wiese and five members of his medevac unit from their 2011 deployment in Afghanistan through a five-year rocky journey back home, “Trauma” captures a unique view into the world of men whose job took them to the heart of war with the most noble of missions – and the unavoidable reckoning.

The top 130 or so feet of superstructure on the Battleship Missouri is visible again — a lot of it in gleaming new gray paint — with the museum and memorial taking the wraps off a yearlong, $3.5 million renovation.

Say what you want about the severity of this year’s flu epidemic, but you’ll have to forgive Dr. Chris Ohl if he doesn’t find your sense of alarm contagious.

Inside a gym, in a nondescript Moscow shopping plaza, there is a quaint little restaurant that is also a bit of a geopolitical oddity in the early hours of Monday morning. Flanked by a mannequin wearing a New England quarterback Tom Brady jersey, and a signed football, flatscreen TVs present Super Bowl LII in all its glory.

Sircaria Coleman, 31, was arrested without incident Jan. 29 by Port of New Orleans Harbor Police on an outstanding desertion warrant issued by the U.S. Army.

The Berlin Wall was vast, 96 miles long. It was frightening, laced with mines, dotted with soldiers trained to shoot first and ask no questions. It was also far more effective than any physical barrier could ever be because it produced what East Germans called "the wall in the head," the omnipresent belief that there was no escape, no hope.

A Navy official said that the alleged victim was not a Japanese national.

Vice President Mike Pence departs Monday for a five-day trip to Japan and South Korea, a visit to Asia intended to focus almost entirely on rallying allies to ratchet up their pressure on Kim Jong Un's repressive regime, as well as directly pressing North Korea to stop its nuclear ambitions.

There is an acute struggle dividing U.S. voters that isn’t about Democrats versus Republicans or differences on issues.

Chief Wahoo's disappearance represents limited, tentative progress against the sort of casual, understated racism that is often more insidious and intractable than outright support for white supremacy.

World Series MVP George Springer and the Houston Astros avoided salary arbitration by agreeing Monday to a $24 million, two-year contract.

Booming economies have traditionally hammered military recruiting as would-be troops shun the services for well-paid civilian jobs. So why is Colorado National Guard boss Maj. Gen. Mike Loh smiling?

A century ago today, reports ran in multiple newspapers across the country that credited a Cambria County, Pa. resident with earning a unique recognition in World War I history: "the honor of being the home town of the first American soldier to kill a German after Pershing’s men formally went into the trenches."

On Feb. 5, 1918, as the British ship Tuscania carried Army Pvt. Edward Carl Grahamer and more than 2,000 other American servicemen toward the Great War in Europe, a German submarine torpedoed and sank the troop transport near the isle of Islay off the coast of Scotland.

Islamist militant groups in West Africa's Sahel region are using increased support from al-Qaida and Islamic State and enhanced cooperation among themselves to carry out more sophisticated and deadly attacks, according to the chief of United Nations mission in Mali.

"Any deal on DACA that does not include STRONG border security and the desperately needed WALL is a total waste of time," President Donald Trump said after a bipartisan immigration proposal surfaced in the Senate.

Shortly after the turmoil surrounding President Donald Trump's repeatedly rescheduled visit to Britain, Prime Minister Theresa May embarked on a trip to Beijing where she celebrated a new "golden era" and was cheered by the Chinese press for not bringing up pesky human rights issues.

It’s fitting that comedian Roy Wood Jr. is an avid player of Sudoku. “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” correspondent always seems to be a few steps ahead of the obvious.

Rokhaya Diallo is almost exactly the same age as French President Emmanuel Macron, and like him, a fresh face in a political realm defined by tradition. But the likeness stops there.

Syrian activists say at least 23 civilians have been killed in intense government airstrikes on a rebel-held suburb near Damascus.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel resumed talks Monday on extending her government alliance with the Social Democratic Party, sending efforts to break the country's political deadlock into overtime.