Новости за 30.10.2017

Dennis Banks, a longtime national American Indian activist who was acquitted in the famed 1970s Wounded Knee uprising trial, has died, his family said early Monday. Banks was 80 years old.

The search for answers behind the strange sonic attacks on U.S. diplomats in Cuba has all the makings of a Cold War thriller — one that looks to be far from its concluding chapter.

Fighting for their lives after driving with their Nigerien partners into a withering ambush, 11 members of the 3rd Special Forces Group called for close air support. Two French Mirage jets arrived an hour later. And when they showed up, the jets merely buzzed the battlefield and didn't drop any bombs on the militants attacking the U.S.-Nigerien patrol.

Whether one embraces or mocks the paranormal, the many accounts that have spilled out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue over two centuries give an undeniable place in the country's history to ghosts, making that address arguably the nation's most famous haunted house.

World War II veteran Wallace “Wally” Morris can recall “shootouts” his father had with a member of the McCoy family when they lived in West Virginia. Yes, those McCoys — from the legendary Hatfields and McCoys dispute.

That the Las Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, was able to bring to his hotel suite dozens of firearms over a period of days should be a red flag, said San Diego hotel operator Bob Rauch, although he acknowledges that awareness of that can be more challenging in a huge resort property.

When Kim Jong Un visited the newly renovated Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory in North Korea last week, smiling broadly as he admired the lotions and potions and their fancy packaging, he was accompanied by two women. They were on the sidelines, but they were there.

Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl still faces life in prison for walking off his post in Afghanistan despite President Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about the former Taliban captive, a military judge ruled Monday.

When President Donald Trump talked about the importance of protecting “our great, great people, our veterans,” during a White House meeting in March, he said, “No more games going to be played at the VA.”

A Northam victory would be welcomed by Obama-Clinton Democrats and would diminish Trump. A Gillespie win would embolden Trump and Bannon, who has threatened to take out any Republican who doesn’t toe the Trumpian populist line.

French President Emmanuel Macron has formally signed a sweeping counterterrorism law that replaces a two-year-old state of emergency and is meant to give police more tools to fight violent extremism.

Luther’s legacy as one of history’s most influential thinkers shows us that there are certain epic projects that require time to mature and space to germinate before they are safe for universal exposure.

Two amateur sailors set first feet on land Monday after spending nearly half a year lost at sea — a journey they said took them through shark attacks and waves as tall as office buildings, and nearly killed them on the brink of their rescue by the U.S. Navy.

Prosecutors say that the judge's rulings have been consistent and called the defendants' attempt an example of their "continued unwillingness" to accept blame for their actions.

Two years to the day after he left Congress, former House Speaker John Boehner is truly free to speak his mind. And a sprawling new profile in Politico Magazine finds the 67-year-old retiree doing just that — with his harshest words reserved for his old antagonists on the political right.

The U.S. State Department has been quietly withdrawing financial support for diplomat families of children with special needs, effectively forcing some parents to serve overseas without their children or ultimately leave the Foreign Service.

A former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians, special counsel Robert Mueller said Monday, while Trump's former campaign manager and that official's business partner pleaded not guilty to felony charges of conspiracy against the United States and other counts.

Human resources often comes poorly equipped to handle serious workplace harassment claims. Some of that inability stems from where the department sits on the org chart, some from the skills and talents of HR managers themselves.

Robert Blakeley, a Marine Corps veteran of two wars whose yellow-and-black fallout shelter sign became a grim symbol of the Cold War, died Oct. 25 at a senior-living community in Jacksonville, Florida. He was 95.

President Donald Trump said alleged misdeeds by ex-campaign chairman Paul Manafort were "years ago," and asserted there was "NO COLLUSION!" between his campaign and the Russian government.

A former campaign aide to President Donald Trump has pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents working for special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.

A woman once complained to Alfred Hitchcock that she had not been able to take a shower ever since being horrified by “Psycho.” The director responded that, in that case, he was glad he had not staged the murder on a toilet.

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, and a former Manafort business associate, Rick Gates, were indicted Monday on felony charges of conspiracy against the United States, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and several other financial counts involving tens of millions of dollars routed through offshore accounts.

The Taliban say the health of an American they are holding hostage is “deteriorating rapidly” and that they will not be responsible for his death if the U.S. does not meet their demand to release imprisoned militants.