Новости за 23.03.2018

South Koreans use a phrase literally meaning "skirt wind" to describe the whoosh of an education-mad mother zipping around. Even though she'd been in fast-paced capitalist South Korea for only a few weeks, the housewife had already become fully assimilated to these "skirt wind" southern ways. It was a whole new world for them.

The controversy over protests during the national anthem at NFL games last season helped propel issues of racial inequality and social injustice to the forefront and gave athletes a stronger voice to bring about change, current and former players said Friday.

The mass shooting at a Florida high school last month and subsequent social media postings that made assumptions about veterans and guns inspired former Army Sgt. Kate Logan to speak out.

What to expect from Bolton? The bottom line is that Vladimir Putin’s worst nightmare just walked into the West Wing.

The number of people around the world in danger of dying unless they get food urgently surged to 124 million last year — mainly because "people won't stop shooting at each other," the head of the U.N. food agency said Friday.

The move to send Miguel Perez Jr. back to his native Mexico, where he has not lived since he was 8, marks the end of what has been a 16-month effort by Perez and his advocates to stay in the United States.

Nondeployable servicemembers should consult a civilian attorney familiar with military law at the first sign that adverse action is being taken against them.

A more than $650 billion military spending plan was key in winning over President Trump’s support for an overall budget deal mere hours after he threatened to veto it and force a potential government shutdown.

For most of the 100 or so California National Guardsmen deploying to Afghanistan this summer, this is a return tour, reflecting a new normal for the National Guard.

A Russian television news reporter has accused a six-time Russian presidential candidate of groping him years ago, and nearly 300 journalists signed a petition Friday against another top Russian lawmaker in a sexual harassment scandal.

President Donald Trump says he's signed a $1.3 trillion spending measure averting a government shutdown just hours after saying he was considering a veto.

A car bombing outside a sports stadium in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province on Friday killed 13 people and wounded 40 others, an official said.

An agreement was reached Friday to evacuate the second of three pockets held by opposition fighters east of the capital Damascus hours after the main rebel group in the area declared a cease-fire to give negotiations with the Russians and the Syrian government a chance, state media and the armed opposition group said.

After failing to even get a vote on it two years ago, Congress has slid the provision into the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that was OK'd this week. Buried in the 2,232-page bill is the “Save America’s Pastime Act,” which would basically take away minimum wage rights for minor-league baseball players, making them “apprentices.”

It is encouraging to see Tiger Woods back on the course, apparently healthy and playing well. But he has a ways to go to match the feats of stellar athletes who competed at a high level into their 40s.

On a football field next to Cal’s Memorial Stadium, with an NFL kicker watching, my 36-yard field goal sailed through the uprights. “If I coach him, he’s gonna take my job,” said the kicker, Giorgio Tavecchio of the Oakland Raiders.

Before this NASCAR season kicked off in February, all the talk was about one thing: the new guys. Young drivers this, young drivers that. The way most media pundits made it seem, we were going to have a championship four all under the age of 25 this season. Not so fast.

A wide-ranging look at "core fours" put together by major league baseball teams over the years. The qualifier is that all four players cannot be older than 25.

Last season's all-time-high home run rate — far outpacing even the Steroid Era — sparked speculation that the surge went beyond pitchers throwing harder and some batters preaching the launch-angle gospel.

U.S. Army Europe has quietly introduced rules that put tighter restrictions on how its civilian workforce can use housing allowances for personally owned homes, reducing the amounts of some payments and imposing a new commuting distance limit.

Since threats must be confronted quickly, we shouldn’t limit who initiates the confrontation.

Every American needs access to water, food and shelter to participate fully in society. When these conditions are met, our communities and our economy thrive.

Advocates of the liberal arts, especially the humanities, must make clear why it is worth studying our subjects.

Former U.S. Sen. Zell Miller, a lifelong Democrat and the father of Georgia's lottery-funded HOPE scholarship while serving as governor, died Friday. He was 86.

A Moroccan national working for an Italian company on a project directed by the Italian Air Force was critically injured in an accident on base Thursday afternoon.