Новости за 08.06.2019

Officials with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said the accident occurred at about 11 a.m. Saturday when a Green Line subway car derailed in a tunnel near Kenmore Square.

While Puerto Rico is slated to receive well over $1 billion in new funding as part of a sweeping $19.1 billion federal disaster relief package, the Virgin Islands appears slated for less than $30 million.

Thousands of people crossed into Colombia on Saturday to buy food and medicine after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reopened a border between the countries that had been shut down for the past four months.

The man accused of carrying out the twin massacres at New Zealand mosques in March will become the first suspect charged under the country's anti-terrorist laws passed after the 9/11 attacks.

On Friday, with his family, officials and the school's 2,800 students cheering, World War II Phil Montano, 94, walked along into the Valencia High School's Bradford Stadium and fulfilled his dream of getting a diploma.

Erie School Director Tom Spagel, a retired major in the U.S. Army Reserve, and fellow advocates for military veterans have accomplished a big part of a mission, launched months ago, to take over ownership and maintenance of the triangle-shaped park that is home to five war memorials.

Four Florida residents and two dogs are dead after their private plane dropped off the radar and crashed into a wooded area of central North Carolina.

Observances of the 75th anniversary of D-Day are properly focusing on the troops and the architect of Operation Overlord, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who freed Europe from Hitler and his Nazi hordes. One person – a woman – has not received the credit she deserves for her efforts with the French Resistance.

After marathon talks and threats of economic sanctions, Mexico and the United States have reached an agreement to curb immigration and avert punitive U.S. tariffs on Mexican exports, President Trump tweeted Friday.

The Federal Aviation Authority says in a statement that the single-engine Beechcraft A36 plane crashed in Southold at around 9:15 a.m. Saturday.

Moe Berg's exploits on the baseball field in the 1920s and 1930s for the Washington Senators and other teams would come to be overshadowed by his cunning as a wartime spy in the infancy of the Office of Strategic Services. A new documentary explores continuing mysteries about the famed player.

This was supposed to be the year the farmers of eastern Syria and Iraq bounced back. Fields of golden wheat rippled across the vast lands once ravaged by the militant fighters. Then came the mysterious crop fires – blamed on and claimed by the Islamic State, but perhaps not entirely the work of the militants.

About 134 people lived in Bushong, Kansas, during World War II, and about 40 students attended Bushong High School. Four young men, including two brothers, from the town all died together on a ship at Omaha Beach on D-Day.

The U.S. Coast Guard is expected to take possession of a new heavy icebreaker within five years and Alaska's junior U.S. senator would like to see it spend time in U.S. waters.

After two stints in Afghanistan, Marine veteran Chris Jones, now a civilian photographer, came back to Helmand – the province that has claimed more coalition troops’ lives than any other in the 18-year war – driven partly by a long-simmering question: Had the blood he and his comrades shed here led to any lasting change?

Sometime later this month, a former Army staff sergeant from Albion, N.Y., will stand before the president of the United States, who will drape around his neck the nation's highest military award for his heroics in the Iraq War.

Sometime later this month, a former Army staff sergeant from Albion, N.Y., will stand before the president of the United States, who will drape around his neck the nation's highest military award for his heroics in the Iraq War.

Miss Montana spent four hours Thursday cruising over the beaches of Normandy on the 75th anniversary of D-Day. She rumbled with a dozen of her new DC-3 airplane friends over Sword Beach, Juno, Gold Beach, Omaha and Utah, all the places on the coastline of France where the turnabout of war and world war history began in 1944.

Steven Lombardi encountered the gunman, disgruntled Army veteran Albert Wong, minutes after his arrival to the veterans home. The sound of Wong racking his weapon to load ammunition and the subsequent high-pitched scream of one of three women held hostage inside, prompted Lombardi to open fire from a partially open door at the suspect.

The state police say the two adults and five children who were in the carriage were ejected when the truck hit it Friday night in Algansee Township, a small farming community not far from Michigan's borders with Indiana and Ohio.

Financial leaders of the Group of 20 gathered Saturday to brainstorm ways to adapt global finance to an age of trade turmoil and digital disruptions.

When Army Pvt. William Myack returned home to Scranton, Pa., in 1944 after serving in Europe during WWII, the wounded Purple Heart recipient couldn't find work. To pay for food, he sold his Purple Heart. On Friday, Myack's 94-year-old sister Mary Usckizczy received a new Purple Heart on her late brother's behalf.

Ten people, including a Medal of Honor recipient, were honored Friday morning at Fort Bragg for their service as soldiers and civilians to the Army Special Forces, Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations regiments.

Queen Elizabeth II marked her official birthday Saturday with the annual Trooping the Color parade, a traditional display of British pageantry at its very best. If the 93-year-old sovereign was tired, it didn't show. She waved and smiled as she emerged on the balcony and the crowd roared.

Finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Japan this weekend will try to make headway on longstanding issues such as how much global giants like Facebook and Amazon should pay in taxes.