Новости за 13.03.2018

The man called 911 to report that he'd shot and killed his wife and their two children, investigators said. Then he turned the gun on himself. Investigators say they are working with Air Force personnel at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, where the man was stationed.

“Empathy isn’t your strong suit.” That’s Amanda (Olivia Cooke) addressing her friend Lily (Anya Taylor-Joy) in the sleek, withering psychological chiller “Thoroughbreds.” By that point her criticism will strike you as either laughably redundant or outrageously hypocritical, since Amanda is, if anything, even more removed from the normal spectrum of human emotions than Lily is.

Online gaming has never been more popular than it is in 2018, with heavy hitters like “Fortnite” and “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” drawing millions of players daily. But the subgenre represented by “Left 4 Dead” hasn’t really seen the success of those frag fests. Thank Sigmar for developer Fatshark and its “Warhammer: Vermintide” series

The NCAA basketball tournament is many wonderful things. But if you want to win your office pool, you must focus on what it is not. It is not a Cinderella story.

Before the trade deadline, it felt as if poor chemistry, players who were bad fits and some underperforming regulars would spell an early playoff end for the Cavaliers. Now their enemies are injuries and time.

Before the Phillies could get into a pennant race again, they had to rejoin the arms race. It seemed in a blink of an eye they went from having Four Aces in their starting rotation to five blank spaces.

Playing with Tim Tebow proved to be a one-of-a-kind experience for his Class A teammates last year. Tebow’s arrival galvanized crowds across the South Atlantic and Florida State Leagues, and the former NFL quarterback won over teammates with his legendary work ethic.

After 12 hours of searching across 112 square miles near Cape Henry, Virginia, the U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 33-year-old crewman from the cargo ship Lara Venture.

As a Kansas congressman, Mike Pompeo made a name for himself pursuing Hillary Clinton over her handling of the Benghazi attack as U.S. secretary of state. He’s now poised to take over that same position.

Andrew Brunson, an American pastor jailed in Turkey, may face a maximum of 35 years in prison in connection with the 2016 coup attempt, according to an indictment liable to further strain ties with Washington.

Iran Air, the country's national airline, recently announced that it will for the first time allow women pilots. The announcement was made by Farzaneh Sharafbafi, Iran Air's chief executive, the first woman to hold that position in the airline's history, according to the Tehran Times.

Since the CIA was formally established in September 1947, not one of its directors has been a woman. Some, including legendary World War II spy Virginia Hall, were highly accomplished and brave operatives, but did not earn the same salaries or promotions as their male counterparts.

Prosecutors in Broward County, Florida, said Tuesday they would seek a death sentence for Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old charged with the shooting rampage at a Parkland high school last month.

In the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, U.S. forces are facing an increasingly risky and convoluted battlefield that pits them against pro-regime forces supported by Russia and Iran, a top military commander told lawmakers Tuesday.

During World War II, Millie Dunn Veasey was a member of the 6888 – the “Six-Triple Eight” – Central Postal Battalion. The unit was the only all-black, all-female battalion to serve overseas during World War II.

The unannounced visit by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis comes two weeks after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani made what many observers consider an unprecedented offer, inviting the Taliban to begin peace talks without preconditions to end the 16-year war.

Post exchanges began pulling ammunition magazines and clips holding 11 or more rounds from shelves on March 2. Some customers blasted the decision. Those voices were heard, said Chris Ward, a spokesman for AAFES. The impacted magazines and clips were expected be returned to stores immediately.

The USS Carl Vinson and guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer were conducting combined operations with the Maritime Self-Defense Force, including one of the largest vessels in Japan’s fleet, in the disputed South China Sea.

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer have been working alongside the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s JS Ise, a Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer, since Sunday, a Navy statement said. The warships are doing formation steaming, anti-submarine and air-defense training.

The U.S. military is ratcheting up its attack on Taliban funding streams in Afghanistan, where troops are using a strategy that paid dividends in the battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the general in charge of U.S. Central Command said Tuesday.

Angela Merkel's most immediate challenge when she resumes office no longer looks to be refugees, Russia nor even rising populism: It's President Donald Trump's relentless focus on Germany.

Men in boot camp units that include women are just as likely to be satisfied with their training and esprit de corps as those serving in all-male contingents, says a new Norwegian study.

Iraq is reopening airports in the country's Kurdish region to international flights after federal authority was restored at the hubs, according to a statement from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday.

It started with the slaying of a young journalist and his fiancee at their home. Then came street protests not seen since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Now the future direction of another European country is at stake as a prime minister fights for his political life.

The Air Force is restricting media access to its bases and curtailing interviews with personnel while the service’s public affairs teams get retrained on operational security, according to new policy guidance.