Новости за 24.12.2017

A Navy lieutenant and ROTC instructor sprang into action yesterday to help an injured woman who had just crawled out of her crumpled vehicle following a violent rollover crash on the Mass Pike in Wayland — one of dozens of accidents blamed on icy roadways across the Bay State.

North Korea called the latest U.N. sanctions to target the country "an act of war" that violates its sovereignty.

North Korea on Sunday called the latest U.N. sanctions to target the country "an act of war" that violates its sovereignty, and said it is a "pipe dream" for the United States to think it will give up its nuclear weapons.

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated against government corruption as police move to wrap up an investigation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on suspicions of bribery.

On a frosty, starlit night, a miracle took place. In 1914, a melody drifted over the darkness of No Man's Land. First "O, Holy Night," then "God Save the King."

The organization, founded in 2008, has provided more than one million tickets to sporting events, concerts and other programs in the past year alone.

A federal judge ruled Saturday that the U.S. military must provide legal counsel to an American citizen who was picked up months ago on the Syrian battlefield and accused of fighting with Islamic State militants.

Increasing international sanctions have left a handful of well-connected Chinese businesses now controlling much of the trade — legal and otherwise — along the frontier. That's bad news for the small-time smugglers who long dominated the border.

Visit Gunny Claus, check out the 100-year-old Christmas Ship tradition and more.

Darnell Woolfolk scored on a 1-yard run with 18 seconds left, Kell Walker converted a go-ahead 2-point run and Army added a last-play defensive touchdown for a 42-35 victory over San Diego State on Saturday in the Armed Forces Bowl.

Somewhere at an austere outpost in Afghanistan, 1st Sgt. Adam Breeding will be reaching for Christmas cookies in a plastic bag. Breeding's wife along with other spouses, girlfriends and mothers of soldiers in the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team baked and shipped the cookies in early December so they’d arrive by Christmas.

The last of the cargo planes once used by the 145th Airlift Wing left Charlotte for a new home in Savannah, Georgia, on Monday, officials said.

The Marine Corps commandant told about 300 Marines in Norway this week that they should be prepared for battle, predicting a "bigass fight" to come. "I hope I'm wrong, but there's a war coming," Gen. Robert Neller told the Marines on Thursday, according to Military.com. "You're in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight, by your presence."

The Trump administration on Friday recognized the results of Honduras' disputed presidential election despite opposition complaints, irregularities found by poll observers and calls from Congress to back a new vote.

Some Florida businesses profit from the labor of unauthorized immigrants after accepting phony identification when hiring them, and then the employers or their insurers report them after a work injury for using false documents, a yearlong Naples Daily News investigation found.

Former California Attorney General Gen. Bill Lockyer is going from enforcing laws against marijuana to legally distributing it under the state's new rules that allow the sale and possession of the drug for recreational use.

Armed with cans of spray paint, they left bubble-lettered tags, outlined buxom cartoon women and made elaborate murals of a green Mother Earth and of a white-haired Dos Equis man on the walls of a New York site called 5Pointz. The creators viewed themselves as artists, and in time 5Pointz became a tourist destination.

When Coloradans voted overwhelmingly to make non-medical marijuana legal, they left it up to cities whether to allow sales. Colorado Springs, home to five military bases and known for its conservative politics and religious values, blocked recreational cannabis sales. Now some in town want to change that.

Vladimir Putin's Kremlin might maintain a strong grip on Russia, but since a Sept. 10 election, it has been surrounded by the opposition. Anti-Putin liberals have filled local councils in the Russian capital's historic and commercial core, and in a few upmarket residential areas– attaining majorities in 17 of the city's 125 municipal districts.

Tembin downgraded to tropical storm; forecast track drifts south of Ho Chi Minh City.

Tembin exits Philippines’ area of responsibility; showers, heavy rain linger in Palawan; Ho Chi Minh remains a target

Tembin upgraded to Category 1-equivalent typhoon, continues moving west away from Philippines, toward southern tip of Vietnam.

As the funding dispute continues, Puerto Rico is struggling to restore power and drinking water, and buckles under a $74 billion debt that has left it unable to pay for nearly anything. Meanwhile, there are many in Washington who are looking at the near-total devastation on the island as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform the U.S. territory in a fundamental way.