Новости за 06.09.2018

When Army veteran Carlos Cruz-Echevarria was found dead along the side of a Deltona, Fla., road in November, Volusia County detectives believed he was a good Samaritan, randomly shot as he tried helping a stranded driver. An investigation soon revealed that the story went much deeper.

So these unelected and unknown officials, all appointed by a president they see as unfit, are now running the country without oversight and accountability? If that’s not a crisis, what is?

Rep. Duncan Hunter once called Washington whispers that he had engaged in multiple extramarital affairs "tabloid trash." But the California Republican may face scrutiny in the coming months for the "personal relationships" he had with at least five women on whom prosecutors have alleged he spent campaign donation money.

Voting machines that don't provide a paper trail should be "removed from service" and other security steps put in place to thwart cyberthreats before midterm elections, experts said Thursday.

Four buildings were locked down because of a "serious incident" at Fort Sill, according to the Provost Marshal's Office and Directorate of Emergency Services. A spokesman said a former employee was detained and his vehicle searched.

The leaders of the United States, France, Germany and Canada issued a joint statement on Thursday backing Britain's assessment of the Novichok poisonings of a former Russian spy and his daughter in March, saying the attack was "almost certainly" approved at a senior level of the Russian government.

Ordering a veggie burger anywhere — but especially in a land famous for its sausage — can be a roll of the dice.

Vicenza is off the beaten path for most tourists doing obligatory tours of grand basilicas and duomos in Milan, Florence, Siena and Rome. Yet the city has a couple of churches that, though more humble, are beautiful, culturally significant and contain masterpiece art.

No microwave weapon that affects the brain is known to exist. The FBI has investigated the Cuba cases and has revealed no evidence of a plot. Searches of the U.S. Embassy and other locations in Havana have turned up no sign of a weapon.

A computer programmer accused of working at the behest of the North Korean government was charged Thursday in connection with several high-profile cyberattacks, including the Sony Pictures Entertainment hack and the WannaCry ransomware virus that affected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide.

If history is anything to go by, Europe's most volatile region is headed into another precarious period, and the repercussions could again be felt around the world.

A group of Democratic lawmakers are urging Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to reject a request by the Department of Homeland Security to divert an estimated $450 million in military funding to help build a wall along the U.S. southern border.

The year was 1968, and as the Vietnam War raged on, David Meggyesy, a linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals, was conflicted about NFL rules on players' etiquette during the playing of the "Star-Spangled Banner." In his mind, the league was overtly backing the Vietnam War effort to appease middle America.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumed the remains of Navy Seaman 1st Class George Naegle, of Wisconsin, from the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.

This fall at the multiplex, Bradley Cooper becomes a director, Jamie Lee Curtis revisits her slasher-movie past, Queen's Freddie Mercury gets the biopic treatment, Tiffany Haddish schools Kevin Hart and Neil Armstrong goes back to the moon.

LIVE STREAM | Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation tumbled into highly charged arguing Thursday over whether key documents were being withheld, and one Democrat risked Senate discipline by releasing confidential material.

Lawmakers on Wednesday considered a bill to force the National Cemetery Administration to allow battlefield crosses, following the controversial removal of the grave markers from three veterans cemeteries last year.

Four buildings have been locked down because of a "serious incident" at Fort Sill, according to the Provost Marshal's Office and Directorate of Emergency Services.

In 1846, Sir John Barrow, an English statesman who midwifed the Victorian age of Arctic exploration, described the North Pole as "the only thing in the world about which we know nothing." Long after its true nature has been unveiled, it has continued to bedevil and torment many who have dared to impinge on it.

On Thursday during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., deliberately violated rules against releasing protected information – risking, in his own estimation, the loss of his position.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe is known as a GOP company man, but the new head of the Senate Armed Services Committee had a mini-maverick moment back in 2011, and it was all about Africa.

Park Jin Hyok, who is accused of hacking on behalf of North Korea's Reconnaissance General Bureau, the military intelligence agency that controls most of the country's cyber capabilities, is charged in the attack on Sony, according to U.S. officials. Park is also known as Pak Jin Hek.

Police Chief Eliot Isaac said the shooter opened fire early Thursday morning at the loading dock of the Fifth Third Bank building. Isaac said the gunman then entered the bank's lobby where he exchanged gunfire with police. It's unclear if the gunman shot himself or was shot by officers.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Macedonia's political leaders Thursday that the Balkan country could only join the military alliance if voters back a name change that will placate concerns within neighboring Greece.

No injuries were reported after a U.S. military helicopter made an emergency landing Wednesday on an island off Okinawa’s coast, officials said.