Новости за 26.12.2018

Trump stands firm despite market rout, the financial steps to take now in a shakier economy and the baseball prospect who paid his parents back for their sacrifice in a touching way.

A Chinese civil-rights lawyer known for uncompromising tactics stood trial for subversion, the last to be tried among dozens of legal campaigners detained in a government sweep three years ago to curb their activism.

“The Orville” has survived and thrived, thanks in part to “Star Trek” fans who rebelled against “Star Trek: Discovery,” a TV spinoff introduced around the same time.

Individual investors are nursing billions of dollars in cryptocurrency losses, including from alleged frauds. Regulators have managed to claw back only about $36 million over the past two years for duped investors.

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Exceptional electrics and hybrids will roll off the line over the next 18 to 36 months. Dan Neil, busy spray-painting his minivan until that time comes, is eyeing the upcoming Rivian R1T pickup.

Blue Apron Holdings, the meal-kit pioneer, has entered a partnership with WW, formerly known as Weight Watchers, giving it potential access to millions of customers interested in healthy eating.

For a pleasure-packed long weekend in San Juan, the resilient capital, heed these tips on where to sleep, eat, swim, sightsee and drink addictive watermelon mojitos.

The retailer has closed around 800 stores this year, and many of the closed properties have become hot commodities on the open market.

Watch a clip from the movie "Vice," starring Christian Bale, and Sam Rockwell. Photo: Annapurna Pictures

Alphabet's Project Wing is delivering hot coffee and food, hardware supplies and drugstore items via drone near Australia’s capital. Some residents say it’s the future, while others want the drones to shut up.

The ever-inspiring filmmaker sounds off on everything from an under-the-radar Manhattan clothing shop to her preferred New Year’s Eve pasta dish.

Critics of the Federal Reserve may be right that its monetary policy is too tight amid signs of an economic slowdown. But the president’s approach of attacks on the Fed is likely to just make the markets worse.

After seeing exports to China tumble, U.S. farmers and ranchers are bracing for more losses in their next-biggest Asian market: Japan. New trade pacts with Pacific and European countries will cut Japanese tariffs and ease quotas on products sold by some of American agriculture’s biggest competitors.

President Trump on Tuesday criticized the Federal Reserve's interest-rate increase and insisted that the partial government shutdown wouldn't end until Congress funds a wall along the border with Mexico. Photo: Getty Images

An 8-year-old Guatemalan boy died in Border Patrol custody early Christmas morning, the second such death this month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could become the longest-serving premier in Israel’s history—if his gamble to call snap elections pays off.

U.S. departure from Syria could leave Turkey as the pivotal power over an oil-rich country, but President Erdogan faces complex calculations in dealing with the Kurds and Islamic State and its allies.

Four veteran Federal Reserve officials—most of whom have signaled support for more interest-rate increases—will step into the limelight in 2019 as they become voters on the central bank’s rate-setting committee.

Victims’ families suffer twice—first from the pain of violence itself, and then from the relentless failure of the legal system. In a continent with among the worst murder rates in the world, families are sometimes forced into hiding for their own safety while they wait years for a verdict.

Emergency crews expect to find more bodies from a deadly tsunami as they press into villages cut off by the devastation that has already left at least 429 dead, officials said Tuesday.

A historic effort to reckon with over half a century of torture, abduction, rape and corruption under Tunisia’s fallen dictatorship is pressing ahead despite opposition from that regime’s remnants.

Funerals were held across the Afghan capital for victims of a deadly attack on a government compound, an assault that cast a further pall over a city reeling with confusion and concern over the prospect of the withdrawal from the country of thousands of U.S. forces.