Новости за 22.08.2017

Donald Trump has always insisted he’s all about winning. But on Monday night, as he laid out his new strategy for Afghanistan, America got to see how its new President confronted what many experts believe is a no-win situation: a war that has dragged on with no end in sight for 16 years. Trump laced […]

US President Donald Trump is doubling down on Afghanistan, despite his own admitted instinct to withdraw from America’s longest war. “We will fight to win,” he said in a speech at Fort Myer in Arlington, Virginia, taking a strident tone and indicating the US would expand its presence in Afghanistan but offering few specific details […]

Hopes for the successful rescue of the 10 US sailors who remain unaccounted for following a collision between the USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker are dwindling as the search continues into its second day. The US Navy has ordered a rare, one-day operational pause in response to Monday’s collision, which was the […]

A conference call between House Majority Whip Steve Scalise — recovering from a June shooting — and House Republicans on Monday was “very emotional,” House Speaker Paul Ryan says. “It was really, very emotional for us,” Ryan said at a CNN town hall in Racine, Wisconsin, on Monday night. A gunman opened fire on a […]

President Donald Trump laid out his strategy in Afghanistan in an address to the nation Monday night, saying the US would fight to win its longest war in part by boosting troop levels to an unspecified degree. Trump also said conditions “on the ground,” instead of timetables, would guide strategy, and laid out in broad […]

House Speaker Paul Ryan will answer audience questions in a CNN town hall live from his home district of Racine, Wisconsin, minutes after President Donald Trump explains his Afghanistan strategy. This will be the first town hall meeting Ryan has held in his home district in nearly two years, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, a […]

The US Coast Guard has suspended the active search for five crew members missing after their Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter went down last week off the Hawaiian coast. “A decision to suspend searching without finding survivors is extremely difficult given the depth of its impact,” Rear Adm. Vincent B. Atkins, commander of Coast Guard […]

President Donald Trump has signaled that an executive pardon could soon be on the way for embattled former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but he may end up using the authority he has touted as his “complete power” without involving the Justice Department. CNN has learned that although the President told Fox News last week that […]

The Trump administration has fired another shot at the scientific community, this time dismantling a federal advisory committee on climate change. Members on the 15-person committee tell CNN they learned the news by email Friday. CNN has obtained a copy of the email sent from acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head Benjamin Friedman. “On […]

Sen. Susan Collins, a moderate Republican, said Monday that she was unsure whether President Donald Trump would be her party’s nominee for president again in 2020. Collins, speaking on MSNBC, also said she was uncertain whom she would back for president during the next election cycle. The Maine senator, who was one of three Republican […]

As President Trump prepares to address the nation Monday evening to announce his strategy in Afghanistan, it’s worth noting how much the longest U.S. war in the country’s history has already cost Americans financially. The most current estimate pegs the number at $841 billion. That comes from Anthony Cordesman, the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in […]

On Monday, a jury awarded a California woman $417 million because she developed ovarian cancer and had used Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder for decades. The award includes $70 million in compensatory damages and $347 million in punitive damages. Eva Echeverria, a 63-year-old from Los Angeles, said she had been using the powder as a […]

President Donald Trump is set to announce the newest chapter in the US war in Afghanistan with an expected troop increase, a pointed focus on counterterrorism that involves regional actors, and a drive to push Pakistan to do more about terrorist groups operating within its borders. The new strategy, which Trump will unveil in a […]

A man who shot a judge in an “ambush-style” attack outside an Ohio courthouse was killed when the judge and a probation officer returned fire, authorities said Monday. Common Pleas Judge Joseph J. Bruzzese Jr. was shot about 8 a.m. outside the Jefferson County Courthouse in Steubenville, about 40 miles west of Pittsburgh, Jefferson County […]

You weren’t the only one whose day took a detour thanks to the eclipse. On the “Scandal” set, stars Kerry Washington, Tony Goldwyn and Scott Foley paused to gaze up. Lady Gaga took a chair to a roof and sent an important message to the sky. And Sarah Jessica Parker parked a boat in the […]