Новости за 15.06.2019

As the nation recognized Flag Day, Xcel Energy announced it was named to the 2019 Military Times Best for Vets Employers rankings, the sixth straight year the company has received the honor.

World War II veteran Dick Wood was a a tail gunner on a B-24 Liberator bomber in the U.S. Army Air Force, spent 20 years after the war serving as a counselor for people battling with addiction.

A federal lawsuit alleging President Donald Trump kissed a former campaign staffer during a Florida rally in 2016 has been dismissed.

Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson said Friday that she's thinking about ways to keep her company's Sikorsky helicopter factory open because President Donald Trump asked her to.

Trump officially starts his 2020 campaign on Tuesday with a rally in Orlando, Fla., and appears to be road-testing some of the themes he'll be touching on in the next 18 months, including stoking fear of a market meltdown.

As Father's Day approached, Pat Gallagher was struggling with how to handle his new role as only parent to his son. How often, he wondered, should he say the word "mama" or "mommy" as a reminder? How should he explain that she's not coming back? When should he reveal what happened?

The FBI has informed Alex Jones that someone planted child pornography on the servers for his Infowars website, and on Friday the controversial radio host offered a $1 million reward for any information leading to an arrest.

The practice of patenting genes, once banned by the Supreme Court, may come back soon despite a measure of horror the very idea once inspired. Author Michael Crichton warned of the evils of gene patents in his 2006 novel "Next" and, more directly, in a 2007 New York Times commentary piece.

President Donald Trump is "all in" for a constitutional amendment banning desecration of the American flag, he said in an early morning tweet Saturday, backing such an effort by two Republican senators.

The Secret Service arrested a man who climbed over a fence onto White House grounds shortly after 9 p.m. Friday, according to a report released by the District of Columbia police.

The secretary's vague allegation of Iranian involvement in the Kabul attack surprised regional experts and a former U.S. diplomat, who said it would be unusual for Iran to launch an attack inside the Afghan capital.

The same source responsible for a recent missile launch on an airport in Saudi Arabia likely perpetrated attacks on ships near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Kingdom's energy minister.

The moment the 25-year-old protester got home from demonstrations that turned violent - tear gas still stinging her eyes - she knew what she had to do: delete all of her Chinese phone apps.

Crewmembers of the Norwegian-owned oil tanker MT Front Altair, which was attacked in the Gulf of Oman, landed Saturday in Dubai after two days in Iran.

Jeremy Lin has joined Wataru "Wat" Misaka in the history books. In 1947, Misaka was the first person of color to play professional basketball in what would become the NBA. With the Raptors' Game 6 win Thursday, Lin has become the first Asian American to win an NBA championship.

Turlock resident James Albert Dick and Modesto resident Byron Allan Selvage II survived combat in the Vietnam War, but their exposure to the herbicide Agent Orange contributed to their deaths 50 years later.

Five merciless Bronx gang-bangers were convicted of first-degree murder Friday for butchering an innocent 15-year-old aspiring cop in a gory explosion of misdirected vengeance.

Jessica Biel may have thought she could quietly slip into California's Capitol this week to lobby against a bill to tighten vaccine requirements, without damage to her brand or reputation. But the massive online response to her visit demonstrated how public opinion has shifted since celebrities last waded into the vaccination debate.

Fulfilling a key, controversial campaign promise popular with his party's base, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Friday that will ban so-called "sanctuary cities" in Florida, though the policy is expected to draw a legal skirmish over its constitutionality as it goes into effect next month.

Accused "sex cult" leader Keith Raniere believed some women never had an orgasm until they were raped, and said there was room to question whether child sex abuse was wrong, according to an FBI agent.

Long lines of migrants, mostly Central Americans, line up daily outside the Tapachula offices of the refugee agencies of Mexico and the United Nations.

The Democratic National Committee has a money problem that could hurt its nominee's chances of beating President Donald Trump in 2020. In the first four months of 2019, the party spent more than it raised and added $3 million in new debt.

She thanked her family and favorite teachers for helping her make it through the jungle that is high school. Then the teenager turned her speech into a roast.

A lack of policy innovation, a messy patchwork of provincial regulations and severe restrictions on marketing and branding have left Canadian pot companies eating the Americans' dust, according to Neil Selfe, founder and chief executive officer of Infor Financial Group Inc.

A remotely operated underwater vehicle identified 18 barrels at the bottom of Wallowa Lake Friday, including at least one bearing a label that says it contains one of the two defoliants used in Agent Orange. An unspecified number were intact; others had rusted out.