Новости за 26.02.2018

A radiant Grace Kelly glided from her seat, pulling up her long opera gloves, her little evening bag balanced on one arm, as she collected a best actress trophy for “The Country Girl” at the 1955 Academy Awards.

Defense attorneys in the case are calling the dismissal foul play, in part because some had been hopeful of negotiating a deal in the death penalty case with Harvey Rishikof, a Mattis appointee who until Feb. 5 served as Convening Authority for Military Commissions.

After back-to-back hurricanes pinwheeled across the Virgin Islands in September, Kenneal Smith feels like he's buried under piles of sheared metal roofs, waterlogged appliances and crumpled mango and bay rum trees that have been dropped off here.

A self-described amateur historian is attempting to raise awareness of and have a statue erected honoring a U.S. Marine who died fighting alongside Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie.

“I’m looking at all of this carnage going on around me,” Harry Carson said, “and God has allowed me to be stable for the last 28 years. What I do, is I talk about what I know. I don’t have to read it. I lived it.”

Iceland will be warmer than parts of the Mediterranean this week as an icy blast from Siberia brings bitter cold to Europe along with the risk of travel delays and power cuts.

USOC chief executive Scott Blackmun made $1 million in salary and bonuses in 2016. Meantime, until last spring, our women's hockey squad members were paid just $6,000 in an entire four-year cycle.

The scene is from a battlefield where countless lives have been lost, but only in the digital world — it's footage from the popular combat simulator Arma made by Prague-based Bohemia Interactive.

Parked on the street, with no special security, worth at least $7 million, was one of the mammoth, armor-plated Mercedes-Benz 770K Grosser parade cars used by Adolf Hitler.

Naval War College assistant professor Jacquelyn Schneider's controversial essay, "Blue Hair in the Gray Zone," explores the issue of armed-forces recruitment in an era when some of the best young technology minds dye their hair, pierce their bodies or wear beards. The culture of Apple, Facebook and Google, in other words, not the U.S. military.

U.S. servicemembers in Europe have been less likely than their counterparts elsewhere to get the flu, but it’s still important to get vaccinated, Army health officials said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel rallied her party Monday to overwhelmingly back a deal to form a new coalition government with the center-left Social Democrats, touting a series of policies to help families and bolster law and order.

We need to stop relying on tips as a means to compensate the massive restaurant workforce.

While a college degree might make good economic sense, one at any cost doesn’t.

In essence, Congress transferred its war powers to the president, sanctioning all levels of military activity without a declaration of war.

Google closing ceremony flag bearer Jessie Diggins and it's almost impossible to find a photo in which she's not smiling. Or at least smirking. The same goes from the rest of the U.S women's cross-country team. And the PyeongChang Games have been no exception, with the women practically dripping happiness the past few weeks.

After Duke’s 60-44 win over Syracuse on Saturday, the talk wasn’t about the return of Marvin Bagley III or the Blue Devils’ fifth straight win and their fourth straight while holding an ACC opponent under 60 points.

Either Borodavko is one heck of a coach, or Russia still has a doping problem. The International Olympic Committee thinks it’s the former, assuming you don’t listen to its words and instead watch its actions.

The Supreme Court is rejecting the Trump administration's highly unusual bid to get the justices to intervene in the controversy over protections for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants.

Victories in unexpected sports such as curling and cross-country — along with a dramatic win in women’s hockey — helped the U.S. forge a late rally and avoid what might otherwise have been a disappointing, if not embarrassing, 2018 Winter Olympics.

Representing the union of the world’s continents, the interlocking rings on the Olympic flag symbolized something else Sunday night at the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Games. Frustration. Exasperation. Hopelessness. So much for Higher, Faster, Stronger.

Listen to those cheers. Can you hear them? They tell the story of this Honda Classic. They provide the sound track, day after day, shot after Tiger Woods shot, right until Sunday when he walked up the 18th fairway to the final hole.

In a Chicago market dominated by professional sports, big-time college basketball often sounds like a misnomer, so the sport’s latest brush with NCAA hypocrisy probably produced somewhere between an eye roll and a shrug. But pay attention this time.

The Academy Awards seem like formality when it comes to the best support actress category this year.

The NBA has grown so proud of its tanking teams, announcements are being made. One team trying to out-tank the other. Armored warfare masters Patton, Rommel, Guderian and Abrams would be great NBA co-commissioners.