Новости за 16.04.2018

President Donald Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen did work for Fox News commentator Sean Hannity in the last year, one of just three legal clients Cohen represented after leaving his post as a counsel for Trump's private company in early 2017, his attorney told a federal judge Monday.

The "egregious" mistake of relying on a bungling private investigator to help handle the criminal indictment of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens should not prompt dismissal of the case, a top official in the St. Louis prosecutor's office told a judge Monday.

For more than a decade, the Far Cry series has been known for sending players to locations that would seem exotic to all but the most globetrotting Westerner: the savannah, the tropics, the Himalayas. Even without placing too much stock in the political wink-winks that date “Far Cry 5” as a product of the Trump Era, there is something ironic about setting the new game in Montana.

President Donald Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as "international economic raiding."

National Guard troops along the border will monitor cameras and sensors, provide aerial support, repair roads and vehicles, do administrative work and clear brush — jobs that don’t involve law enforcement and won’t put them in harm’s way.

National Guard troops along the border will monitor cameras and sensors, provide aerial support, repair roads and vehicles, do administrative work and clear brush — jobs that don’t involve law enforcement and won’t put them in harm’s way.

The warning on Monday came from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain’s National Cyber Security Center. It included advice to companies about what they can do to protect themselves and warned specifically of attacks on routers, the devices that channel data around a network.

Chemical weapons inspectors in Syria said Monday that they suspected the site of an alleged chemical attack had been tampered with, as pro-government media broadcast interviews with doctors from the area saying that no such assault had occurred and that the victims they treated were suffering from asthma.

Even as President Donald Trump has in recent weeks built a more hawkish national security team and again fired missiles at Syrian targets, Congress is not likely to take back the war-making powers it has steadily given up.

A farmer is defending a chile pepper dubbed the hottest on Earth that reportedly landed a man in a hospital with "thunderclap headaches."

After Utah passed the country’s first law legalizing so-called free-range parenting, groups in states from New York to Texas are pushing for similar steps to bolster the idea that supporters say is an antidote for anxiety-plagued parents and overscheduled kids.

Seven years ago, the gifted Scottish writer-director Lynne Ramsay made a bleak and unsettling domestic horror film titled "We Need to Talk About Kevin." Her latest feature, her fourth in nearly two decades, is a hypnotically grim New York crime thriller called "You Were Never Really Here."

The suicide of a veteran at John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis last month is the latest in a string of such deaths on Veterans Affairs properties nationwide.

Unless some sort of accountability is imposed on the Syrian president, Bashar Assad’s slaughter of his own people in the cruelest and most illegal of ways is sure to continue apace.

While airstrikes may indeed be used as a means of escalation, states are likely aware that airstrikes are a limited signal — and realize that the most salient crises cannot be resolved with airstrikes alone or without a stronger signal of resolve.

McCabe argues that he was targeted because he could corroborate Comey’s allegations that Trump obstructed justice. Trump’s public vilification of McCabe strongly supports that interpretation.

The West will not allow use of weapons of mass destruction to go unpunished. That was the lesson a year ago, the same lesson of 2003 and 2001, a lesson that was not absorbed last year and thus was repeated with twice the ferocity.

The remarks -- during a TV debate Sunday after Western missile strikes on Syria -- hinted at a major policy shift by Trump and brought a sharp response from the White House less than a week before Macron is scheduled to visit Washington.

Most hitters in the Minnesota Twins clubhouse have something that distracts them when they have to perform in the cold, whether it’s feet, fingers, pine tar freezing on the bat or keeping muscles warm and ready to fire through the strike zone.

Places in Japan & South Korea to celebrate the bloom.

Many fans are fed up, and understandably so. The Orlando Magic haven’t made the playoffs since the 2011-12 season. They have won no more than 35 games and lost as many as 62 in six subsequent seasons. Everybody grab your pitchforks, please.

April 19, 1966: An 11-year-old boy was excitedly awaiting the outcome of the Boston Marathon, with a special interest in the Japanese runners. His father, who, as a young GI, had married a Japanese woman and brought her home to East Boston, had found them a spot near the finish line.

The true scale of fuel theft is likely higher than $154.4 million, due to poor record keeping, corruption and the vast amount of fuel available, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction report stated.

Seaman Anthony Greco thought his hockey days were probably over when the Navy sent him to Bahrain. He was wrong.

The recent air campaign, paired with additional U.S. military advising, has helped stop the disintegration of security, but it has meant sending U.S. troops back to regions where they once engaged in direct combat with the Taliban during a surge in 2009.