Новости за 06.04.2018

Daniel Akaka, a liberal Democrat from Hawaii who served in both houses of Congress and quietly devoted himself to looking after the interests of his home islands during more than 35 years on Capitol Hill, died April 6 in Honolulu. He was 93.

The deaths brought to at least 31 the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since last week.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius said he resigned from his post last year after the Trump administration asked him to pressure the Vietnamese government to receive more than 8,000 Vietnamese refugees marked in the U.S. for deportation.

Not one to be outdone by any adversary, President Donald Trump has upped the ante in a rapidly escalating trade war with China. In doing so, the Trump administration is failing to appreciate a crucial reality.

Troubled by back-to-back years of declining TV ratings and data that indicate an erosion of their core fan base, a number of NFL owners believe the solution heading into the 2018 season lies in "reclaiming the narrative" — turning the spotlight away from polarizing social and political issues and focusing on the game itself.

The NBA stars were among the headline names on the list of 35 players chosen Friday for USA Basketball's national team pool of players for 2018-20.

Washington is known for its museums. But venture beyond the Mall, which is home to four of the 20 most-visited museums in the world, and you'll find plenty of smaller, quirkier institutions.

South Korea's rapidly worsening air pollution has forced the country's professional baseball league to postpone three games.

The National Capital Planning Commission unanimously chose a location on the National Mall for the new National Desert Storm and Desert Shield War Memorial, putting the group at odds with another commission that also has a say in the selection process.

Members of a climate change panel told an audience of about 500 Thursday night that U.S. military bases are vulnerable climate change, posing a threat to national security.

A nonprofit group dedicated to safeguarding servicemembers’ constitutional right to religious freedom has lodged a formal complaint with the Navy after a Bible was spotted in a POW/MIA “Missing Man” table display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.

Spain's Civil Guard said 1,014 pounds of glass eels were seized in southern Spain with a market value of over $490 million.

All four members of Hawaii’s congressional delegation urged the U.S. military Thursday to take responsibility for alerting the public about any future ballistic missile attacks, taking that role away from the state, which botched the job in January.

"The hardest part of being a Marine is the tragic loss of life of a fellow brother-in-arms,” said Col. Craig Leflore, the commander of Marine Aircraft Group 16, which oversees the fallen Marines’ unit.

Lockheed Martin must find ways to reduce the Pentagon's current $1.1 trillion estimate to own and operate the F-35 jet, the world's costliest weapons program, according to the Defense Department's latest annual program overview.

A New York judge awarded two Nazi-looted paintings to the heirs of an Austrian-Jewish Holocaust victim whose collection of hundreds of pieces of art was systematically stolen by Hitler's army in 1938.

Early and medieval Christians were quite aware that Mary Magdalene had played a special and powerful role in Jesus’ ministry.

Inspirational sports movies tend to be testosterone-heavy, so the all-girl volleyball movie "The Miracle Season" is a welcome twist on the familiar genre. Based on the true story of Iowa City's West High School girls' volleyball team who battled back from tragedy in 2011, "The Miracle Season" is a formulaic but rousing tale of teamwork, girl power and community, and a tearjerker to boot.

The 9/11 attacks spurred one of the most dramatic reforms in U.S. history. Why hasn’t similar effort been applied to prevent mass shootings?

I can’t help thinking that there’s something about this mission — which has been low cost and high success, according to commanders — that Trump doesn’t understand.

Israel certainly has a right to defend its border from militant attacks, or even a mass peaceful invasion. But it willingly fell into Hamas' trap by using military forces, rather than border police skilled at dispersing rioters by nonlethal means.

A cost-of-living survey that’s about to do the rounds of U.S. bases in Japan could impact allowances that were slashed for servicemembers there earlier this year.

Emily Blunt’s new movie “The Quiet Place” is about a family who tries to live silently, lest terrible things befall them. She won’t be speaking much - which is a tad unusual for the British actress. More often, her roles display flawless vocal abilities, via her American accents (“The Girl on the Train,” “Sicario”) and singing (“Into the Woods,” upcoming “Mary Poppins”).

The price to be paid for attempting to make golf less stuffy, to take the game to the people, is the inevitable disturbance when some of those people are yahoos.

South Korea has temporarily grounded its fleet of fighters “except those needed for national defense,” military officials said Friday after a jet slammed into a mountain, killing the two pilots.