Новости за 13.03.2017

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plunges this week into the increasingly volatile situation in North Asia with visits to Japan, South Korea and China, the region's central players for dealing with North Korea's missile launches and nuclear tests. Complicating the mission are Chinese concerns about how the U.S. has responded so far.

Nonpartisan analysts project that 14 million people would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's health care law. The estimate is a blow to Republicans.

The worst possible outcome will be for Republicans to break their word and do nothing.

Can Trump succeed in remaking the Republican Party in his populist image? Or will the more traditional conservatives who lead the GOP majority in Congress domesticate the president and limit his agenda to the parts they like?

The White House confirmed Monday that President Donald Trump will meet this week with Saudi Arabia's second-in-line to the throne in the highest-level visit to Washington by a Saudi royal since November's presidential election.

Four years after the Taliban blew off most of his left arm in Afghanistan, former Army Sgt. First Class Ramon Padilla traveled to Dallas for a wounded warrior golf tournament. For putting advice, he relied on the man who sent him to war.

The White House on Monday appeared to soften President Donald Trump's unproven assertion that his predecessor wiretapped his New York skyscraper during the election. The shift came as the Justice Department faced a deadline to provide lawmakers evidence to back up Trump's explosive claim.

The hour-long interactive call-in show, called "Cleaning Up the City," started 14 years ago as a sounding board and troubleshooting service for community issues, and it still performs that role, rotating among mundane daily themes such as education and utilities.

California on Monday joined Washington state's growing effort to block President Donald Trump's revised travel ban targeting predominantly Muslim nations as Washington's attorney general sought a hearing before a federal judge to try to prevent the order from taking effect this week.

News that North Korea recently launched four missiles that traveled 620 miles has heightened concerns among those who have warned that an electromagnetic pulse attack could essentially vaporize the U.S. energy infrastructure.

President Donald Trump is reportedly planning a two-day meeting in April with Chinese President Xi Jinping at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach.

Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon announced Monday she will seek a new referendum on independence in a bold move of defiance even as British leaders forge ahead toward a full break from the European Union.

A cemetery in upstate New York where a Civil War veteran known as "Albany's Little Drummer Boy" is buried has received the only image of him known to exist.

Armed personnel have detained South Sudanese staffers with the aid group Samaritan's Purse, the group said Monday, while rebels dismissed as "propaganda" the government's claim of a kidnapping.

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak was ordered to be freed from detention on Monday, according to the prosecutor who signed his release order. The decision ends nearly six years of legal proceedings against Mubarak and seems certain to revive the ongoing debate over whether the goals of the 2011 uprising that ended his reign were ever realized.

Two United Nations officials, one American and one Swedish, have been kidnapped along with four Congolese in the country's Kasai Central province, Congo's government said Monday.

Two lawsuits accuse the senior officer of California’s National Guard, Maj. Gen. David Baldwin, of illegally telling subordinates to block a high-ranking officer’s transfer to another state — and there’s an ongoing probe ordered by the governor’s office into the alleged misconduct.

Prosecutors in Kosovo say they have charged a citizen with being part of the Islamic State group in Syria.

What are wildlife refuges, after all, if not refuges for wildlife?

There is no precise head count of how many people have gained coverage because of the law. And it is downright impossible to reliably estimate the number of people who might lose coverage if Congress repeals and replaces it.

The Department of Defense Education Activity plans to resume filling teaching and other staff vacancies at its schools, now that its request for an exemption from the federal civilian hiring freeze has been approved, school officials said Monday.

The European Union has extended for six months sanctions against 150 Russia-linked people over the territorial disputes in eastern Ukraine.

Places to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in Japan and Okinawa.

Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man after confirming he was a Nazi unit commander suspected of ordering the killing of 44 Poles during World War II, a prosecutor said Monday.

Deputy ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the blast appeared to have targeted a minibus carrying a group of employees.