Новости за 27.09.2018

When Harold P. Kopp got his initial patent, it was for a device called the Zap Trap. It was the first electronic voltage surge suppressor, the predecessor to the power strips in widespread use today.

Tucked away in a sleepy residential neighborhood in Okinawa City is Akai Helmet, a spacious and trendy traditional Japanese izakaya opened in honor of the Hiroshima Carp, one of the most popular teams in Nippon Professional Baseball. The restaurant’s name, which translates to “Red Helmet,” is a direct reference to the team’s colors and the headgear sported by players during their appearances at bat.

When Kevin Hart came up with the idea for "Night School," he conceived of it as an adult version of John Hughes' classic "The Breakfast Club."

Crew members of the USS Pueblo endured beatings, cruel torture and faked executions from their North Korean captors in 1968, but they said one of the worst parts was being starved with only turnips to eat, day after day.

The games in the Destiny series have always aspired to keep players busy not for hours or weeks, but months on end. When the first game launched in 2014, it appeared on track to accomplishing its mission. (Indeed, there was a running joke on Eurogamer about the number of articles devoted to Bungie’s interplanetary shooter.)

Created by the late Ham Fisher in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the world heavyweight boxing champion Joe Palooka comic strip was syndicated in more than 900 newspapers for 50 years from 1930 to 1984.

It had taken Fredric Moore Mellor 53 years and a little over two months to come home. The 30-year-old Air Force pilot from Cranston, R.I. had disappeared after his plane was shot down during a reconnaissance mission over North Vietnam on Aug. 13, 1965.

In the Bavarian Alps, it’s not all about the skiing. While the mountain town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, is a prime destination for winter sports, there is more to the area than just sliding down snow-packed slopes. Garmisch and the mountain villages around it make for great off-season long weekends. The views are spellbinding, and the hikes a refreshing escape from the daily grind.

What bad actors in the pharmacy industry did over the last decade or so was produce compound drugs of unproven effectiveness; conspire with unscrupulous health care providers to write prescriptions for them, and create marketing networks to target health insurance plans with relaxed rules on compound drugs.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday the world stands at the "dawn of a new day" in relations with North Korea but that international sanctions must remain in place and enforced if diplomatic efforts to get the country to denuclearize are to succeed — a position that faced resistance from China and Russia.

Emotionally battling to rescue his Supreme Court nomination, a beleaguered Brett Kavanaugh fought back Thursday against allegations that he'd sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford when both were high school students, telling Congress that allegations by her and others have "totally and permanently destroyed" his family and his reputation.

Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell has been temporarily removed from his position as the senior enlisted adviser to Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Air Force Col. Patrick Ryder, a spokesman for the Joint Staff.

Hardwired in the DNA of many Chinese officials is a belief that a problem for the United States constitutes an advantage for China.

From the outside, Trattoria del Mare looks humble, with its wooden porch-like patio and tables with paper place mats. It hardly stands out amid a busy restaurant district in the town of Pozzuoli.

Ed Brown, 57, aims to complete the trek by Oct. 22, arriving in time for the next day’s ceremony commemorating the 35th anniversary of the Beirut bombing. To make it, he plans to walk an average of 24.1 mile per day, symbolic of the 241 servicemen who died in that attack.

The F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter jet, the U.S. military’s most expensive weapon ever produced, was used Thursday for the first time in a combat mission, striking a Taliban target in Afghanistan, defense officials said.

Fort Drum officials believe they’ve made strides in recent years in supporting victims on post, despite a national report putting Fort Drum at the top of the list for sexual assault risks.

The U.S. Army awarded a contract worth more than $1.5 billion for the production of a Patriot missile defense radar to be purchased by Poland, adding another piece to that country’s emerging air defense system.

The U.S. Senate elevated federal attention on PFAS contamination Wednesday, but the messages on the health risks, environmental danger and whether any national criteria will be established for the chemicals left some people at a subcommittee hearing surprised and frustrated.

She’s just a minute’s drive, one building over. At this hour, she’s already in bed, in her own room, behind two sets of heavy metal doors. Bob Stiegler isn’t sure if she recognizes him. But she should.

Police in Massachusetts have arrested two juveniles they say caused $50,000 worth of damage to a home being built for a disabled veteran.

Plastic film covered two dozen windows of a home under construction on Monday for a local disabled veteran. Beneath the now-plastic-covered openings, broken glass was visible throughout the property.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to start new trade talks to review tariffs for a wide range of goods such as agricultural products, in bilateral talks held at a hotel in New York.

U.S. threats to cut aid to Pakistan for its support of the Taliban have not led to any significant changes in Islamabad’s relations with insurgents who seek to overthrow the American-backed Afghan government, the State Department said in a report.

Half of Americans believe that all U.S. servicemembers are heroes regardless of their roles or experience — a view at odds with how some Europeans perceive their militaries, according to a new poll.