Новости за 17.11.2018

After President Donald Trump called his CIA chief and top diplomat from Air Force One as he flew to survey wildfire damage in California, the State Department released a statement saying "recent reports indicating that the U.S. government has made a final conclusion are inaccurate."

For all their big words about Europeans "taking their destiny in their own hands," EU leaders' real policy appears to be to string Iran along while waiting for the Trump presidency to end — what some might call a head-in-the-sand tactic.

Sanctions may have knocked as much as 6 percent off Russia's economy over the past four years and the drag isn't likely to go away anytime soon.

Joseph Small, a U.S. Army veteran injured in Afghanistan in 2009, received the keys to a new home Friday. Wade Jurney Homes donated the home as part of the Operation Homefront Homes on the Homefront Program.

U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford said Saturday that it's problematic that American tech companies don't want to work with the Pentagon but are willing to engage with the Chinese.

Jack Schwartz of Hanford was still working at age 102. The community-minded veteran's last civic service was serving on his city's parks and recreation commission into last year. He was living independently until he was admitted to the hospital two days before he died.

Quincy police are searching for the owner of a sapphire ring with an inscription for the Army Chemical Corps that was turned into the department's lost-and-found office.

The French Interior Ministry said a network of drivers blocked roads at some 2,000 locations across the country, generating traffic backups for miles and causing one death.

Democrat Stacey Abrams ended 10 days of postelection drama in Georgia’s closely watched and even more closely contested race Friday evening when she acknowledged that when the state’s final vote gets certified, Republican Brian Kemp will be the next governor.

Oomar Olivas, a sergeant in the Colorado Army National Guard , accidentally left his garage door open Sunday night after celebrating Veterans Day with family and friends. When he awoke the next morning a "go-bag" containing his military uniform, some warm clothes and a journal detailing his experiences while deployed in Afghanistan was gone.

A 20-year-old Washington state man was sentenced Thursday to less than three years in prison for raping a high school student as she died from a drug overdose and texting semi-nude photos of her.

Vice President Mike Pence and Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered dueling speeches Saturday that offered a window into how the two governments are seeking a truce over tariffs - but remain fundamentally at odds over economics, diplomacy and the race for global influence and primacy.

President Donald Trump awaited a briefing Saturday from the CIA on the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after a U.S. official said American intelligence agencies had concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing.

Source says at least 43 people, including 17 children and 12 women, were killed. He says it is not clear if the men killed in the strikes were militants.

The coast guard said in a statement Saturday that three people who decided to stay aboard the stranded boat and were rescued told authorities that 10 people in all had abandoned ship Thursday near Isola del Toro.

Abdul Aziz Beg, head of the Badghis council, says three other police were wounded and another detained by the Taliban early Saturday morning in the Qadis district.

Samurai striker Lange inks letter of intent to play for D-I Pacific; Lucas signs to play for D-2 Union (Tenn.).

Saturday’s commissioning ceremony celebrates the Navy’s acceptance of the boat into the fleet and officially brings the Sioux City to life before it heads to its homeport in Mayport, Florida, on Sunday.

Sid Tomes scored a career-high 20 points for Air Force (1-2), and Ryan Swan had 17 points and eight rebounds. Tomes had three of Air Force's five 3-pointers.

The Interior Ministry said that around 125,000 protesters were involved in about 2,000 demonstrations around France.

Argentina's navy announced early Saturday that searchers found the missing submarine ARA San Juan deep in the Atlantic a year after it disappeared with 44 crewmen aboard.

On July 1, 2015, the Naval Academy announced an incoming football recruiting class consisting of 64 players representing 21 states. On Nov. 17, 2018, Navy will honor the 34 remaining members of that class that made it all the way to Senior Day.

Todd Mehrhoff faces a maximum four years in prison on charges of obtaining fentanyl by use of misrepresentation and fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Military officials formally reopened the Selah Airstrip on Thursday morning as a C-17 Globemaster from Joint Base Lewis-McChord landed on the 5,200-foot-long asphalt strip. Two mobile rocket launchers then drove off the plane and over to an area alongside the airfield and, with two other units, fired a salvo over a nearby ridge.

Travis Denny, who joined the Marine Corps 10 years ago under the shadow of his Marine hero grandfather Bill Pasewark, is a helicopter pilot stationed at Corpus Christi.