Новости за 02.07.2018

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will make another trip to North Korea this week as the Trump administration continues talks to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.

I knew I was smitten with “Mario Tennis Aces” after I lost a hard-fought match to Shy Guy — Nintendo’s cutesy, mask-wearing scoundrel. At 40-all, we went back and forth angling for the two consecutive points that would clinch the game. “Mario Tennis Aces” is the first sports game since, well, “Mario Kart 8” that’s captivated me. I say that to make it clear that I’m not the sort of person that finds more realistic sports-themed simulations particularly appealing.

A Hello Kitty-themed “shinkansen” bullet train has debuted in Japan. Adorned with the cartoon icon inside and out, it’s a dream ride for fans of the internationally popular character.

An Ohio man arrested Sunday for allegedly plotting a Fourth of July terror attack in Cleveland -- with the children of U.S. military officers attending the city’s parade among the targets -- also planned to detonate a truck full of explosives on Labor Day in Philadelphia, according to court filings.

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter's office announced Monday the state won't house and jail inmates in National Guard barracks despite being asked to consider the option by top correction officials facing an overtaxed criminal justice system.

Officials with the Defense, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services departments are considering more military bases along the U.S. southern border as locations to house undocumented immigrants as the Pentagon prepares to accept detainees at two installations in Texas, a Defense Department spokesman said Monday.

Fred Spencer stood among military service members and their families to pour the final shot of Crown Royal Whiskey into a bucket of sand.

For Marcus Pryor, the July 4 holiday began with seemingly innocent fun three years ago when he met up with a friend, went to a park near his South Side home and started lighting some fireworks. But it wouldn’t take long for things to go horribly wrong.

Recent revelations suggesting that North Korea is pressing forward with its nuclear missile program increase pressure on the Trump administration to wrest concrete concessions and denuclearization timelines from the communist state.

During World War II, Jane Rhoades Anslinger danced with the famous Radio City Rockettes in USO shows at the European front.

A rising force, now the world’s second-largest economy, China has predicted for years that America’s decline would be slow and inevitable, the ebbing of one global power and the ascent of another.

U.S. exporters want Congress to rein in President Donald Trump on tariffs, and national security hawks want Congress to force him to put Chinese telecom gear-maker ZTE Corp. out of business.

Starting this summer, solar-powered drones from New Mexico will soar above raging wildland blazes to offer a critical eye in the sky to firefighters battling flames below.

The Islamic State group on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan that killed at least 19 people, mostly Sikhs and Hindus.

Billy Mahoney sells his lobsters to a local dealer in Massachusetts who, in turn, sells most of the product to an increasingly lobster-hungry China. The proposed tariffs between the U.S. and the world's second-largest economy have already lowered the price Mahoney gets for his lobsters by 50 cents a pound.

The arrival of LeBron James with the Los Angeles Lakers means the exit of LaVar Ball, count on it.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said it's "a little premature" to discuss the U.S. withdrawing from the World Trade Organization as the Trump administration continues to look at ways to improve the global trading body.

A calendar of nearby water parks and pools of interest to people living on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

The United States and nine allied countries are working to improve their combined tactics to combat submarines in the North Atlantic, where Russia has increased its undersea activity this year.

In years past, the summertime box office could always be counted on to deliver at least one mainstream comedy smash that would break out of the pack of superhero films, action spectacles and rampaging giant-monster epics.

A new communications system allows for soldiers at the squad level to share graphics, photos and other battlefield information with one another and with commanders and technical operations centers — giving a clear, comprehensive battlefield picture.

The United States pioneered the use of cyber weapons when it shattered Iran's nuclear centrifuges in 2010 but such devastating tools have spread and are now boomeranging to make industrial digital sabotage a growing concern to the United States.

An immigration protest at a park gazebo in Huntsville, Alabama, ended with a man booked into jail on misdemeanor charges of menacing and reckless endangerment.

A large military drawdown in Germany would be a “colossal mistake,” says the former top Army commander in Europe about a possible scaling back of the U.S. presence on the Continent, at a time when Russia has become more assertive.

Mass-mailing checks to strangers might seem like risky business, but Mariner Finance occupies a fertile niche in the U.S. economy. The company enables some of the nation's wealthiest investors and investment funds to make money offering high-interest loans to cash-strapped Americans.