Новости за 12.05.2017

Chaos is President Donald Trump's style, yet as long as the Republican delivers on health care, taxes and tapping a new FBI director as solid as his Supreme Court pick, GOP leaders say everything will be just fine.

Two civilian initiatives are coming to Colorado to help veterans and their families deal with traumatic brain injuries, post-traumatic stress and other problems, the University of Colorado said Friday.

A cyberweapon believed to have escaped the control of the United States’ top-secret National Security Agency appears to be behind a massive wave of cyber ransom attacks Friday in scores of countries around the globe that researchers said was the largest computer hack ever.

The attack was believed to the biggest attempt at cyberextortion ever recorded. Dozens of countries were affected by the malware which locked up computers and held users' files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government agencies.

A huge extortion cyberattack hit dozens of nations Friday, holding computer data for ransom at hospitals, telecommunications firms and other companies. The attack appeared to exploit a vulnerability purportedly identified for use by the U.S. National Security Agency and later leaked to the internet.

When the sister of President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner promoted investment in her family's new skyscraper from a Beijing hotel ballroom stage earlier this month, she was pitching a controversial American visa program that's proven irresistible to tens of thousands of Chinese.

As mid-career resumes go, this one's a doozy: Bryant Neal Vinas tried to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, advised al-Qaida on potential bombing targets, then morphed into a prized informer for the U.S. government. After eight years in solitary confinement, the 34-year-old New Yorker is set to become a free man. Which raises the question: What in the world does he do next?

On his first overseas trip since being sworn in, President Donald Trump will continue to push NATO allies to increase defense spending and invest more in the fight in Afghanistan. That message could fall flat with some allies.

Barbie was already the doll of choice in America when it dawned on Stanley Weston that young boys ought to have an equal. So G.I. Joe came marching into the toy stores. But the man who conceived G.I. Joe reaped few of the financial rewards.

A passenger suffering a medical emergency was flown from a cruise ship off Southern California to a hospital on shore.

A NASA working group has concluded after a two-month review that sending astronauts on the first flight of its massive new rocket wouldn't be feasible due to the immense costs of safely accommodating a crew on the planned 2019 mission, the first step in America's return to human space exploration.

Fort Hood officials who have released few details about a motorist swept away amid flash flooding last month now say the missing person is a soldier at the Army post.

The population of student-veterans and family members of veterans on campus has grown 94 percent in the last year, a spokeswoman for SU's part-time school University College said. SU enrolled 53 vets in 2009. That number is up to 1,041 this past semester.

"Travelers are on the go and don't have time to go online and submit a form or call us," said Jennifer Plozai, acting deputy assistant administrator for public affairs at the TSA. "They need help in real time."

Two U.S. Air Force airmen convinced a woman not to jump from an interstate bridge on Wednesday, the Midwest City, Okla., police chief said Thursday.

A Russian fighter jet intercepted a U.S. Navy spy plane this week in neutral airspace over the Black Sea, flying within 20 feet of the American aircraft, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday.

This is graduation weekend at Wentworth Military Academy. But more than that, this is the final graduation for the school that’s been around for 137 years.

China is one of the few countries in the world today with money to spend, and Xi Jinping is ready to write some checks.

The German Defense Ministry says two assault rifles and a pistol have been stolen from inside an armored vehicle at a military facility in northern Germany, in another embarrassment for the armed forces.

The remains of Army 1st Lt. Ewart Theodore Sconiers, the last unrecovered American POW from the Germans' infamous Stalag Luft III in WWII, have been returned to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.

It’s bold, it’s daring, it’s a black metal acid trip. It will most likely give you motion sickness. It’s Guy Ritchie’s take on the King Arthur story, so naturally, this King Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) is really into bare-knuckle boxing, (see Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” and “Snatch”). “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” is unlike any other medieval warfare and sorcery movie ever committed to film, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good. This King Arthur superhero origin story is strange, invigorating... Читать дальше...

South Sudan's president on Friday ordered his ousted army chief of staff back to the capital as tensions rose between the two men accused of directing the country's civil war.

Witnesses say there is new military unrest in Ivory Coast's two largest cities involving some of the soldiers who were behind a mutiny in January.

Malaysian police said Friday they have deported three Turkish men suspected of links to U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of being behind a failed coup attempt in Turkey last year.

When George Washington was elected president, he did what a good boy should do: rode to Fredericksburg, Va., to tell his mom.