Новости за 07.06.2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized the United States for using pressure and sanctions to maintain its economic supremacy, saying it spawns chaos in global affairs.

A would-be Islamic terrorist, busted for a plot to hurl grenades into the multitudes of Times Square tourists, pondered blasting the new World Trade Center with a massive rocket launcher, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday.

The U.S. Air Force has granted a religious accommodation to an active duty Sikh airman that will allow him to wear a turban, beard and unshorn hair in accordance with his faith.

As the big-band classic "All Or Nothing At All" piped into Sorrentino's headphones, he was no longer a 96-year-old battling dementia. He was 20, an Army combat engineer heading across the English Channel to invade France in June 1944.

The citizen-soldiers of D-Day were men who had occupations or plans for occupations before the war. Some had been groomed to run family businesses. Some were fishers or machinists. Others had just entered college. They had mixed reactions to being drafted or enlisting, but most of them left behind their livelihoods to defend their country.

Under the surface, the world's largest alliance is extremely uneasy. And it is uneasy, to put it simply, because the U.S. president makes it uneasy.

Power in global politics is not dealt from a deck of cards but is a function of state policy. Vladimir Putin has now been leading his country for almost 20 years. If anyone has made Russia's hand weak, it's him.

Despite what you may have read, the United States' strategy toward China does not entail launching another Cold War, imposing a zero-sum game or even winning a "clash of civilizations."

If ever there was a moment for some tough love between allies, it is now. America, and most of Europe for that matter, is calling for the generals currently in control of Sudan to cede power to civilians and prepare for elections. Three U.S. allies — Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — back the generals.

Snoopy, who first appeared in the "Peanuts" comic strip in 1950, has been everywhere at this point: summer camp, college, the desert to visit his hapless brother Spike. He's been to the airfields of World War I in his unceasing fight with the Red Baron, and even to the moon with the crew of Apollo 10.

When people are told which way to turn, it relieves them of the need to create their own routes and remember them. They pay less attention to their surroundings. And neuroscientists can now see that brain behavior changes when people rely on turn-by-turn directions.

My dad never talked about fleeing the Nazis as a teenager. He never mentioned his Jewish heritage. He only rarely and reluctantly talked about serving in World War II. He never wore his medals of valor on his sleeve, literally or figuratively.

The case, which sparked outrage in both the U.S. and Australia, has been fraught by race from the start. Noor is Somali American and Damond was white; some in the community argued it was treated differently that police shootings in which the victims were black and the officers were white.

Remains of the pilot of an Air Self-Defense Force F-35A stealth jet fighter that went missing off Aomori Prefecture on April 9 have been retrieved from the ocean, Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Friday.

President Donald Trump on Friday said "there is a good chance" the U.S. will strike a deal with Mexico to avert the tariffs he had scheduled for Monday to force the U.S. neighbor to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn’t track how many veterans it deports or consider a person’s military service before deporting them, a federal watchdog agency reported Thursday.

When states legalize pot for all adults, long-standing medical marijuana programs take a big hit, in some cases losing more than half their registered patients in just a few years, according to a data analysis by The Associated Press.

The 22-year-old man arrested for plotting to hurl grenades at visitors to Times Square also wanted to buy defaced firearms and ammo so he could shoot both civilians and police officers, sources said Friday.

Christopher J. Morgan was identified Friday as the West Point cadet killed in the military vehicle accident that also injured more than 20 other cadets and soldiers.

The Pentagon on Friday told Turkey that it is cutting off Ankara's purchase of F-35 fighter jets if the Turkish government goes ahead with plans to buy a Russian missile defense system.

HBO's recent miniseries "Chernobyl" has become another hit for the premium network, but there's one place the series has not gone over well: Russia, specifically in the power corridors of the Kremlin.

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor on Friday sought to appeal the court's rejection of an investigation into crimes linked to the conflict in Afghanistan by rebels, government security services and American forces.

When the 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team arrives in California for training later this month, its tanks and other vehicles will be there waiting for them.

The Missile Defense Agency has reduced needed testing of the Navy’s land-based missile defense system in Poland even though an 18-month construction delay has provided more time to run them, a government watchdog said.

Fort Carson officials vowed to improve on-post housing after a scathing report found decrepit conditions and poor maintenance at installations across the country, prompting an outcry from some congressional leaders.