Новости за 11.05.2018

In the escalating confrontation between Israel and Iran, Israel's defense minister called on Syria's President Bashar Assad on Friday to rid his country of Iranian forces based there — warning their presence will only cause more trouble to the already war-ravaged country.

A New York lawyer said he told President Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, years ago that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was abusing women.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says the state is sending a helicopter and about nine Army National Guard soldiers to Texas to help patrol the Mexican border.

Here is a list of the things that led to the Celtics surpassing so many people's expectations — mine included — en route to the Eastern Conference finals.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo offered economic help Friday to impoverished North Korea if it gives up its nuclear weapons, as the two countries prepare for an historic summit between President Donald Trump and leader Kim Jong Un.

Presumably, the leaders of the U.S. Olympic Committee don't wake up in the morning saying, "I want to enable child molesters." They don't go to work every day intending to help peddle young women to sexual abusers. Yet somehow, the USOC became a victimizer of athletes instead of their protector.

May 8 and May 10 just gifted us with the starkest start-and-stop contrasts that define the worst and best of Trump’s bumper-car presidency.

While it would be easy and perfectly reasonable for Steve Torres to just stay home through three years of constant chemotherapy, he refuses to live any less of a life than he would if he didn’t have cancer.

A federal jury found the owner and operator of a business that provides speech language therapy primarily to children of military servicemembers guilty Thursday of multiple counts of wire fraud, identity theft and lying to receive payment of services that were never provided.

For many U.S. flight attendants, navigating lewd comments or unwanted touching by passengers is a troublesome but all too common reality of their jobs, with two out of three flight attendants saying they’ve experienced sexual harassment during their careers, according to a survey released Thursday.

The program requires that residents, who pay nothing to live there, attend strictly scheduled courses on job training, drug rehabilitation, psych counseling or other programs tailored to help each move on to places of their own. Residents who follow the rules can stay for six months to a year.

The abundance of published, peer-reviewed data indicates that VA care is comparable or, in many cases, superior to that in the private sector.

Faulty radar was a way of life on the USS Fitzgerald and was a key contributing cause for its collision with a merchant vessel June 2017 in the busy waters off the coast of Japan.

A host for the Fox Business Network is apologizing after a guest on his show referred to Sen. John McCain as "Songbird John" and said torture worked on him.

A former claims examiner with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been charged with threatening an Army chaplain who he allegedly accused of getting him fired, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Certainly, adoption is a good outcome for some children in foster care. Yet, we know too little to conclude that adoptions make sense for all of them.

Trump’s attitude toward Europe is clear: He considers the European Union a collection of puffed-up small countries dependent on the U.S. for economic survival and military protection.

Xi understands that Kim, in reaching out to Trump and Moon, is seeking to dilute China’s stranglehold on his country.

The rift between America and Iran is currently as unbridgeable as the Persian Gulf. Iran and the United States are in a full-fledged battle to exert more influence over the Middle East, control the flow and price of energy, and to effect Israel’s status and survival.

As if New Orleans needed to give visitors another reason to party, the city celebrates its 300th birthday this year. That means non-stop tricentennial events, parades, exhibits and more on top of the Big Easy's already packed calendar. America's most unique city draws tourists for its culture, food, cocktails and festivals -- and keeps them coming back by embracing its rich history while continuing to evolve.

A machinist’s mate fireman aboard the fast-attack submarine USS Oklahoma City was on shore liberty in Singapore when he was separated from his shipmates, officials say.

While the photos and videos of the popping, churning, spewing lava from Kilauea volcano look post-apocalyptic, officials with the Island of Hawaii Visitors Bureau say that the danger zones are isolated to private, residential areas and they don’t expect an impact on travelers. "Really, almost 90 percent of the island is unaffected," says Ross Birch, executive director of the Hawaii Island Visitors and Convention Bureau.

Japan's prime minister has warned North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Japan will not provide economic assistance unless the North resolves the issue of Japanese citizens it abducted decades ago.

Officials hope the radar will be able to penetrate deeper than existing systems that can find objects with a diameter of about an inch as deep as 13 feet, or a 20-inch cavity as deep as 33 feet.

Organizers of an event said parents and mental health professionals are seeing increased reports of teen depression, anxiety, self-harm and other mental health issues in the Kaiserslautern Military Community.