Новости за 09.03.2018

As a real estate tycoon like President Donald Trump should know, location can be a key factor in negotiations. Some potential countries are already vying for the opportunity. Both Sweden and Switzerland have issued statements offering to help facilitate the meeting, while former Mongolian president Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj suggested that his country was the most "suitable, neutral" territory to host.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel got a fresh victory in Washington. His data-mining startup, Palantir Technologies, won a much-contested contract to provide software to the U.S. Army.

The Trump Organization has donated $151,470 in foreign government profits at its hotels and similar businesses last year to the U.S. Treasury, an executive said in a statement Friday.

In 1941, Albert Porché Sr. found himself sitting outside a bus station all night, fighting off mosquitoes and rain as a member of the U.S. Army. He didn't know it at the time, but he was waiting to become a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.

Jussie Smollett marked a breakthrough in 2015 when the TV series “Empire” debuted, launching his career after working in the industry for years, earning Emmy and Grammy nominations, and even getting a record deal with Columbia Records.

From New Hampshire’s White Mountains to the Denver suburbs, a new crop of Democratic congressional candidates is campaigning on what’s been a difficult topic for the party, especially in rural and conservative areas: gun control.

Residents of a New Mexico Hispanic village near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test want to share their stories with Congress about health problems they say are linked to the explosion.

More than 4,000 Mississippi National Guard soldiers will be heading to Texas by the end of the month in preparation for deployment to the Middle East.

So far, the three-plus-year federal inquiry has resulted in the arrests of mostly low-level figures in the college sports black market, and the criminal charges they face stem from NCAA rules many economists deem quaint and outmoded, if not exploitative.

Past failures do not absolve us of the responsibility to try to help. We are beholden to find a path to a brighter future for the Palestinians of Gaza.

The Pentagon has identified a soldier who died this week from a noncombat incident as 38-year-old Sgt. 1st Class Maitland Deweever Wilson of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Forgive me if I’m getting ahead of myself here — we still have free agency, the NFL draft, a whole summer, and training camps ahead of us before we start the 2018 NFL season — but right now, at the beginning of March, I can’t help but think that the 49ers are the team to beat in the NFC West.

Pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison by U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto after he was convicted last year of lying to investors in two failed hedge funds.

A nonprofit watchdog group has asked the Justice Department and the Office of Government Ethics to investigate whether a secret payment to an adult film actress made prior to the 2016 presidential election may have violated federal law because Donald Trump did not list it on his financial disclosure forms.

As the White House prepares for what could be the first meeting between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader, the U.S. and South Korean militaries will carry out exercises that Pyongyang has long called provocative but now appears to accept.

A $139,000 project to upgrade three sets of double doors in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's office was planned by career facilities and security officials as part of a decade-long modernization of the historic building erected in 1936.

Trip-planning multiple choice: a) Mountains b) Sand c) Surf d) Factories. If you picked the last vacation option, you've got company.

The United Nations' human rights chief suggested Friday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte "needs to submit himself to some sort of psychiatric evaluation" over his "unacceptable" remarks about some top human rights defenders.

An 80- to 90-pound bundle, dropped by parachute from an Army Black Hawk helicopter, mistakenly landed on the campus of Waimanalo Elementary and Intermediate School. The bundle of batteries and a tent was found at the school, about 100 to 200 yards from its intended target at Marine Corps Training Area Bellows, an Army spokesman said.

Prosecutors are demanding a life sentence for an Afghan migrant on trial in Germany for the rape and killing of a 19-year-old medical student in October 2016.

In 1932, Pablo Picasso was 50 years old and art critics were asking whether he was yesterday’s man. He proved them wrong with an outpouring of creativity that is charted in the exhibition “Picasso 1932 — Love, Fame Tragedy,” now at London’s Tate Modern gallery.

I’d been warned about the stink. It hit me the instant I stepped off the plane in Rotorua: a mix of bad egg and warm sewer gas that has earned this city on New Zealand’s North Island the nickname "Sulphur City" -- or, less kindly, "Rotten-Rua." I sucked in a deep breath and smiled. That subterranean scent meant I would soon be soaking in curative hot springs, smothering my body in primeval goo and exploring a land of burping mud pots, prismatic pools, boiling rivers and shooting geysers.

Places in Japan & South Korea to celebrate the bloom.

Nearly three quarters of Americans age 14 to 21 had played or watched an online multiplayer game in the last 12 months, when the poll was conducted last fall. The survey is among the first to gauge the growing popularity of e-gaming, and finds 25 percent of all adults played or watched games in the past year, peaking at 43 percent among those under age 40.

Trump is rushing into a risky summit without having gotten anything substantial in return.