Новости за 21.06.2019

Oregon's governor deployed the state police to try to round up 11 GOP senators who fled the State Legislature to thwart the passage of a cap-and-trade proposal to lower greenhouse gas emissions, but which would substantially increase the cost of fuel and potentially harm small businesses, truckers and the logging industry.

On many Wednesday and Thursday nights through July, the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Regiment — "The Old Guard" — hosts the Twilight Tattoo, a tradition that the Military District of Washington began in 1961.

They have no sombreros today at La Caty 555, the gift shop tucked inside Mexico’s new Live Aqua Urban Resort in San Miguel de Allende. But a dozen or so mod, wide-brimmed straw and felt hats hang on the boutique’s gray stone back wall, seemingly left by some stylish, latter-day Frida Kahlo (or awaiting purchase by a Mexico City fashion blogger). Like everything else in the shop -- leather bomber jackets trimmed with bright embroidery panels, lava-stone salt cellars, wooden skull-motif trays in neon... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump will address 10,000 veterans by phone next week about a new law that aims to expand veterans’ access to private-sector doctors.

Ashley and Andy Williams of HGTV's "Flip or Flop Fort Worth" are well acquainted with stressful work. The two military veterans, who were stationed overseas in Baghdad, are now running a real estate business in Texas.

Security is being ramped up in Osaka and tension is gradually building ahead of next week's Group of 20 summit meeting, with restrictions on traffic, station lockers and drones steadily being phased in.

We were taking a smarty-pants car through honky-tonky country -- Reno to Las Vegas. Our route: U.S. 95, Nevada’s Electric Highway, a mostly two-lane road that has been peppered with charging stations to meet the growing demand of electric vehicles, or EVs.

Last December, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, spent an hour closeted with then-Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan. Among the topics on the table was SpaceX’s failure to win an important contract from the Air Force the previous October.

A fire and explosions at the largest oil refinery on the East Coast sent a massive fireball into the sky and shook nearby homes before dawn Friday. Gasoline prices in the Northeast could go up over the next few weeks as a result.

A handful of entrepreneurial scientists, many of whom have spent their careers studying the reefs that are dying before their eyes, are devising extreme measures to try to save the world’s corals.

Of course, we can’t develop coping mechanisms for the Internet if we’re too busy panicking. At least one scientist has already questioned the accuracy of the horns research, but that doesn’t decrease its allure.

European leaders are being guarded in their responses to the deepening tensions between the United States and Iran, urging both sides to step back from confrontation.

For nearly 70 years, William “Hoover” Jones’s family wondered what happened to him. He left North Carolina as an 18-year-old boy from a small town in Nash County, off to Korea to fight as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. He has been missing-in-action since 1950. On Thursday, he came home.

For decades, William “Hoover” Jones’s family wondered what happened to him. He left North Carolina as an 18-year-old boy from a small town in Nash County, off to Korea to fight as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. He has been missing-in-action since 1950. On Thursday, he came home.

Over a recent week of web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad and data companies ride shotgun while I clicked around the web.

With the United States on the brink of a potential military conflict with Iran on Thursday, the Pentagon decided to say . . . well, almost nothing.

With Army Secretary Mark Esper poised to become the acting defense secretary on Monday, his top deputy Ryan McCarthy will slide into the role as the Army’s top civilian on a temporary basis, defense officials said Friday.

A small Florida city paid an extraordinary $600,000 in ransom this week to hackers who had locked up the city's computer systems — highlighting an increasingly common dilemma for city leaders across the country.

The United States has no defense secretary, but rather an acting one who is taking over from another acting one, who suddenly quit.

An amendment filed by Maine Rep. Jared Golden to prohibit federal regulators from spending money on right whale protections that would impact lobstermen was voted down Thursday.

When President Donald Trump and Canada's prime minister sat down in the Oval Office to discuss trade, Iran and other pressing matters, a model airplane dominated the coffee table in front of them.

A Haitian ambassador-at-large and his business partner, a prominent retired U.S. Army colonel, were both found guilty by a federal jury in Boston on Thursday of participating in a scheme to bribe Haitian government officials in exchange for business advantages on an $84 million port project in northwest Haiti.

A veteran dentist who was shot to death outside his Newport News dental office Wednesday was remembered as a kind and gregarious man who “wouldn’t have issues with anyone.”

China’s government persists in trying to censor and control. However, global commercial and political tides are moving in the opposite direction.

A panel of federal appeals court judges ruled on Thursday that a Trump administration family planning rule that could cut as much as $60 million in Title X funds from Planned Parenthood could go into effect immediately.