Новости за 25.04.2018

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The White House believes the decision by a federal judge to overrule President Donald Trump's efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program puts US national security at risk, Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Department of Defense has seen no verifiable proof to support Russian claims of having in its possession intact Tomahawk missiles captured in Syria, department spokesperson Eric Pahon told Sputnik on Wednesday.

The European Space Agency (ESA) released the largest-ever map of the stars on Wednesday, made from data collected by its Gaia satellite.

Sikorsky’s CH-53K heavy lift helicopter is showing symptoms of having caught the “over budget, behind schedule” disease plaguing other Defense Department programs like the F-35 Lighting II and the Ford-class aircraft carrier.

On Monday, China asked the public for submissions of innovative design ideas for the country’s own version of a manned lunar exploration mission currently being planned.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The European Sentinel-3B environmental monitoring satellite reached the designated sun-synchronous orbit after launch on board a Rokot carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northwestern Russia earlier on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Russia’s Embassy in Canada confirmed on Wednesday that a 90-year-old Russian citizen A.S.Kozhevnikova was injured in the Toronto van attack and said that the woman is currently in a stable condition.

BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - The participants of the Brussels II Conference on "Supporting the future of Syria and the region" have reaffirmed their commitment to Syria's territorial integrity, sovereignty and unity, the Council of the European Union said in a statement late on Wednesday.

The CIA will allow the US Senate to review some classified information pertaining to Gina Haspel, the current deputy director of the agency and the Trump administration’s nominee for its next director, following blowback from Democrats over a lack of information about her professional past.

This pup is truly lost in the sauce!

Lockheed Martin’s low-observable fifth-generation aircraft, the F-35, is still losing air-to-air fights with fourth-generation air superiority fighters from the 1970s.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The US Supreme Court gave President Donald Trump's immigration travel ban a better reception in a hearing on Wednesday than it has received in lower courts over the past 15 months, with questions from the court’s conservative majority showing sympathy for the president’s position.

PFLAG National, an LGBTQ advocacy group, announced on Tuesday that it was rescinding its Straight for Equality in Media Award from MSNBC anchor Joy Reid after more homophobic comments she made on her now-defunct blog, The Reid Report, surfaced this week.

A South Texas judge has been ordered to take racial sensitivity training after a Latino defendant called out the judge’s habit of proclaiming his courtroom “a redneck court.”

Virginia State Police are currently investigating claims by NFL wide receiver Paul Richardson that a Virginia state trooper pulled him over Tuesday and asked him whether he’s a drug dealer and in a gang.

Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Paraguay decided to leave the South American bloc last week, and this is a huge step back for the whole region, political analyst Sonia Wiener believes.

The EU has found itself between the devil and the deep blue sea as Washington has announced a new round of anti-Russian sanctions, targeting Europe's most valuable aluminum supplier, Rusal, and threatened to exit the Iran nuclear deal. Both moves may inflict heavy economic losses on EU member states.

The Jewish community in Berlin has organized a demo following a recent attack on an Israeli man donning the Jewish traditional headwear in Berlin, but was forced to cut it right in the middle. Here is why.

YEREVAN (Sputnik) - The Armenian Revolutionary Federation party has announced that it decided to withdraw from the coalition with the ruling Republican Party of Armenia amid large-scale protests in the country.

The "Yes California" campaign has seen an incredible rise in the number of its members since Donald Trump became US president. Historically, this is not the first initiative of the kind, but all previous attempts have failed.

Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary has said that in case of US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, Tehran will resume operation of its frozen nuclear facilities. Radio Sputnik discussed Iran nuclear deal with Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi, founder of the American-Iranian Council and a professor of public policy at Rutgers University.

Rumors are rife that big banks are entering the cryptomarket causing a surge in the price of bitcoin. While this is good news for anyone who has a stash of the digital dosh, it could be a sign that regulators are closing in on the cryptocurrency.

LONDON (Sputnik), Anastasia Dmitrieva - PEMEX CEO Carlos Trevino told Sputnik on Wednesday on the sidelines of the International Petroleum Summit in London about the influence of the Venezuelan crisis, political dimesion of their work and possible cooperation of the Mexican state-owned petroleum company with other corporations.

The Russian Embassy in Washington, DC has told Sputnik that Russian diplomats are following developments after the US authorities tried to break the lock of the front door of the closed Russian Consulate General's residence in Seattle.

The Russian Embassy in Washington, DC has told Sputnik that Russian diplomats are following developments after the US authorities tried to break the lock of the front door of the closed Russian Consulate General's residence in Seattle.