Новости за 27.06.2019

Democratic Sens. Richard J. Durbin and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois want Major League Baseball to expand netting to protect fans from foul balls across the entirety of the major leagues.

Tarmo Holma, a 97-year-old decorated WWII veteran who came to this country at age 7 from Finland, served under Gen. George S. Patton and at age 21 helped liberate Nazi concentration camps, was honored this week for a half century of service in the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.

Savvy consumers have long understood that it is almost always better to borrow independently, but regulators have the ability to make sure all car buyers get a fair deal, no matter where they shop for financing.

Trump promised he would name “the best people” to top posts. But since the transition period preceding his inauguration, more than four dozen choices for top executive branch posts or judgeships have been forced to withdraw.

In a summer of sequels, third and fourth films in a series have to prove the worthiness of their existence, and some this season haven’t risen to the top. But while it’s easy to scoff at another killer doll film in The Conjuring Universe, the spooky franchise is stealthily successful, and always steadily consistent. "Annabelle Comes Home," the third "Annabelle" film, which marks the directorial debut of writer Gary Dauberman, could actually be the best in the trilogy.

The Bronx cop, identified by sources as 53-year-old Kevin Preiss, was found dead in his Nassau County home from a gunshot wound to the head late Wednesday, sources said. He was the sixth cop to die by their own hand this year, officials said.

Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a soulful if brooding young man, with a very pleasant singing voice. But when we meet him, the fledgling songwriter and supermarket clerk from coastal England feels stuck in the middle of a hard day’s night. If he doesn’t get any help soon, he’ll end up a real nowhere man.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill that allocates $750 billion towards Pentagon spending for fiscal year 2020.

It’s a notion that would leave Beatles fans Here, There and Everywhere crying out for Help! A world without the transcendent songs of Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr seems almost impossible to imagine nearly six decades after the Fab Four changed music forever. But that’s the concept explored in "Yesterday," a new movie where everybody except one man forgets about The Beatles.

The United States does not want a full-blown war with Iran, although it still is seeking to build up international defenses in the region just in case of a conflict, President Donald Trump's special envoy to the country said Thursday.

Col. William Blanchard was relieved of command by Brig. Gen. William Bowers, commander of the Marine Corps Education Command, on June 19 “due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to command,” according to a statement.

Crews are working to remove the 3,600 tons of coal and damaged railroad cars from the wildlife refuge. No one was injured, but 36 rail cars full of sand-fine coal went into the swamp.

Canine Companions is specially training dogs to work with veterans who have post-traumatic stress disorder. In its northeast headquarters in Medford, Long Island, dogs are learning skills such as turning on lights and gently interrupting a nightmare by pulling away the bedsheets.

Former Navy baseball pitcher Noah Song was selected by the Boston Red Sox with the last pick of the fourth round (137th overall) of the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft earlier this month.

In newly disclosed testimony, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson said Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, operated independently with world leaders without coordination with the State Department, leaving Tillerson out of the loop and in the dark on emerging U.S. policies and simmering geopolitical crises.

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi was rushed to a military hospital, his office said, with fears of his death adding to angst on a day when twin suicide bombers struck in the capital.

Nation of Patriots, which rode through Santa Maria, Calif., on its 110-day tour, raises money for disabled veterans and their families, then distributes 100% of it directly to the veterans and families selected through the Veterans Administration Hospital network.

President Donald Trump complained again about supposed bias against conservatives at social media companies and said the U.S. government should sue Google and Facebook Inc. for unspecified wrongdoing.

A controversial pork shipment that prompted China to halt Canadian imports may have come from someplace else, according to the government in Ottawa.

For 36-years Jo-Ann and Edward Corr shared their love together after they were married. On June 21, while riding on a motorcycle in New Hampshire, they spent their last moment together.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanded Thursday that House Democrats drop their insistence for changes in a $4.6 billion border aid package that the Senate passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and instead give final congressional approval to the legislation.

Hours after being arrested and charged with the longtime sexual abuse of patients at USC’s campus clinic, George Tyndall was hospitalized, and officials say he will not appear in court Thursday.

Ford Motor Co. will eliminate about 20% of its workforce across Europe in a sweeping overhaul to tackle the carmaker's falling sales in the region and lift weak profitability.

If he does so, he will leave his summit colleagues less room to disagree with him — and the Iranian regime with no illusions about his intentions.