Новости за 03.04.2019

At the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual spring dinner Tuesday, President Donald Trump said noise from wind turbines causes cancer. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Trump's comments don't ‘show much respect for Chuck Grassley as the grandfather of the wind energy tax credit.’

A sweet, warm, nonalcoholic drink called amazake has refreshed and energized many a hiker who’s braved the steep slopes of Japan’s Mount Hakone over the past 400 years.

Since becoming White House national security adviser, John Bolton has pursued an agenda that includes trying to break Iran financially, oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, shield Americans from the reach of the International Criminal Court and toughen the U.S. posture toward Russia.

Nestled within the main tourist footpaths of Juffair, Adliya and the downtown souk area of Manama, lies an often-overlooked part of this town in Bahrain. Qudaibiya, pronounced ka-dib-ee-yah, is a pocket of the city that many servicemembers either don’t know about or rarely wander through. It’s an old part of town just north of the Al-Qudaibiya Palace, the palace next to the Grand Mosque.

As the Navy shifts its focus away from the war on terrorism and toward major powers like Russia and China, its corpsmen are preparing in a different way: Embedding with civilian hospitals where treating gunshots, burn victims and other severe wounds is commonplace.

Nuclear Armageddon might not have improved things in Hope County, but it certainly didn’t make them much worse. A slightly irradiated Hope County, Mont., is the setting of Ubisoft’s Far Cry New Dawn, a sequel to last spring’s Far Cry 5. The first-person shooter is set about 17 years after the previous game’s hero battled the Eden’s Gate cult, which was terrorizing the rural county. During those years, nuclear war — a looming menace in Far Cry 5 — has come and gone, and survivors have crawled out of their shelters to establish new settlements.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is the Dayton region’s largest employer, an economic powerhouse integral to national defense that also attracts a trove of intellectual capital and expertise in high-tech research and development.

The government “significantly weakened” nutritional standards for sodium and whole grains, according to the lawsuit, without giving the public a chance to comment on them and in opposition to nutritional requirements for school meals set by Congress.

A good Samaritan who pulled over to help after an apparent car crash on Interstate 26 was instead carjacked by the man he was trying to help, according to Lexington County deputies.

More than 540 million Facebook records — including users' comments, likes, account names and more — were left exposed on an Amazon cloud-computing server, researchers announced on Wednesday, marking the latest major privacy and security mishap to plague the social-networking giant.

A massive search and rescue effort was underway Wednesday in Uganda after an American tourist and a local guide were ambushed and kidnapped by four armed men demanding a $500,000 ransom, Ugandan police said.

Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of repeatedly violating the conditions of his seven years of asylum in Ecuador's embassy in Britain.

Maj. Andre McDonald, 40, was arrested in March after investigators discovered he had bought a shovel, an ax, gasoline and a burn barrel then tried to destroy the receipts after his wife went missing. He was freed Tuesday after posting $300,000 bail.

A Justice Department report condemns virtually every aspect of prison operations, chronicling a “broken system” beset by poor staff training, an inability to prevent the flow of drugs and weapons from entering, “and a high level of violence that is too common, cruel, of an unusual nature, and pervasive.”

Legislation introduced in Congress on Wednesday would create a fourth administration within the Department of Veterans Affairs – one dedicated solely to veterans’ transition into education and employment.

U.S. paratroopers practiced jumping into combat scenarios and conducted live-fire drills during the Eagle Sokol exercise in Slovenia this past week.

Three U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped Andreas Gal at San Francisco International Airport ordered him to unlock his phone and hand it over. He was informed that despite being a U.S. citizen he had no right to speak to an attorney and failure to comply was a violation of federal law.

A year ago, Susan Wojcicki was on stage to defend YouTube. Her company, hammered for months for fueling falsehoods online, was reeling from another flare-up involving a conspiracy theory video about the Parkland, Florida high school shooting that suggested the victims were "crisis actors."

Instead of dividing scarce resources among desperate patients, HHS should be expanding the supply to the benefit of every patient.

I’m glad the Supreme Court has had a change of heart; and I’m glad the change of heart has come quickly.

Retired Col. Mark A. Smith, who wrote dozens of letters praised for their compassion and eloquence to the families of his Marine Reserve battalion during a deployment early in the Iraq War, was remembered this week as a “Marine’s Marine.”

Lockheed Martin Corp.'s $31 billion King Stallion helicopter program for the U.S. Marines may miss its first key milestone by more than 19 months because of a growing checklist of flaws discovered in development testing.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday the militants clashed with the U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and local security forces before blowing themselves during the previous night. The SDF first confirmed then denied the report.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday the militants clashed with the U.S-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and local security forces before blowing themselves during the previous night.

For at least the third time this year, the Navy has sent its latest generation of anti-submarine warfare aircraft to an international exhibition in the Indo-Pacific region.