Новости за 07.12.2019

Then-Brig. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower awoke to an urgent call from military higher-ups informing him of the news from Pearl Harbor. Four hectic, harried days after that, Eisenhower received another call - this one demanding he "hop a plane" and travel to Washington to develop the U.S. response to Japanese aggression.

The United States will not classify Mexican drug cartels as international terrorist organizations — at least for now. President Donald Trump tweeted Friday afternoon that he was holding off on the designation at the request of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

The parcel was sent from Niagara, Ontario, shipped via Canada Post, and addressed to Campobello Island, New Brunswick. But when it arrived at Dale Calder's home, he found it had been opened by agents of a foreign government.

Competitors from large and small schools open the season at RAF Lakenheath in seven-team meet.

The Cuban government recently reintroduced the U.S. dollar to the island's economy, hoping to capture more of the currency it desperately needs. It has opened shops that sell appliances and automotive parts only in dollars.

It was a nightmare scenario. A Thursday shootout in South Florida left four dead: two hijackers, a 27-year-old abducted UPS driver and a 70-year-old man who happened to be idling at the light on his way home from work.

Days before his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy promised his war-battered nation of 43 million that he would not betray them to the enemy.

People can look back to the two previous impeachment proceedings of modern times - those involving Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton - and attempt to speculate about the possible political impacts. Those limited data points point in contradictory directions.

Joshua Watson had just graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and looked forward to a military career as a pilot. On Saturday, he was being hailed a hero, as his family recounted how the 23-year-old — in his last minutes of life — led first responders to an active shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola.

As a Pearl Harbor survivor, John Campbell calls himself "a dying breed." But he doesn't worry too much about what it means – what will be lost – when the last of his kind is gone.

It's been 78 years since Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, but Walter Pasiak still recalls the confusion and sense of helplessness he felt. He was a 19-year-old Army private when the first bombs exploded a fuel storage tank on Dec. 7, 1941.

Seventy-eight years ago today, Lydia "Diane" Grant woke to the sound of a machine gun bullet smashing the wall above her bed. But disturbed sleep was the most minor casualty that day. The Japanese were attacking Pearl Harbor.

The screaming whine of Japanese dive bombers, the fearsome thunder of enemy Zeros strafing scattering servicemen, pushed Hy Seiden to his feet and out of his tent at Fort Kamehameha, an Army base adjacent to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Breakfast would have to wait. It was Dec. 7, 1941, and the world was about to change forever.

Black Forest makes early successful bid to join D-I elite by topping Stuttgart in a pair of close games.

Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 is a day 94-year-old World War II veteran Mel Kahl has never forgotten. He was 16 years old as he listened in shock to news that Japanese bombers had attacked Pearl Harbor. He wanted to enlist right away.

Officials investigating the deadly attack were working Saturday to determine whether it was motivated by terrorism, while President Donald Trump indicated he would review policies governing foreign military training in the United States.

The Saudi student who fatally shot three people at a U.S. naval base in Florida hosted a dinner party earlier in the week during which he and three others watched videos of mass shootings, a U.S. official told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Some 4,500 plaintiffs retained attorneys to sue MGM Resorts International, Mandalay Bay's parent company, citing the hotel's lax security as the reason Stephen Paddock was able to bring 23 guns up to his suite and commit the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

The company in charge of privatized military housing projects on Fort Meade, Md., has been accused of retaliating against service members who complained of poor conditions there, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

Cameron Reinhart drained 25 three-point goals in four victories as defending Far East Division II tournament champions broke out of the gate quickly.

Prior to National Wreaths Across America Day, Delaware's General Assembly will host Wreaths Across America on Monday, Dec. 9, at 11:30 a.m. on the east side of Legislative Hall in Dover, near the bronze sculpture of the Delaware Continentals.

The Vietnam veteran had been living alone for eight years in the woods of South Alabama. Although he was no longer drinking, his old enemy depression had beaten him down.

Besides the lines on his face, there was little about retired Col. Charles McGee that suggested he could now be called a centenarian. He had a spring in his step and handled the questions from reporters without missing a beat.

Strikes disrupted weekend travel around France on Saturday as truckers blocked highways and most trains remained at a standstill because of worker anger at President Emmanuel Macron's policies.

Iran and the U.S. conducted a prisoner exchange Saturday that saw a detained Princeton graduate student released for an Iranian scientist held by America, marking a potential breakthrough between Tehran and Washington after months of tensions.