Новости за 17.02.2023

Justice Department investigators searched the Washington offices of former Vice President Mike Pence's conservative advocacy group as part of its probe into his handling of classified materials.

Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw says he won't be pitching for Team USA at the World Baseball Classic and called the situation "super disappointing."

The NBA is keeping a constant eye on the status of the financial problems that some regional sports networks are trying to address, and there does not appear to be immediate concern about what will happen if the owner of those networks files for bankruptcy.

Federal prosecutors say a sport-utility vehicle that collided with a forklift in Seattle last week, killing one of the SUV's passengers, was being driven by a defendant who had been kicked out of a treatment facility hours earlier and who was overdue to report to the U.S. District Court downtown.

One year ago, Maryland men's basketball was a rudderless ship. Now -- sooner than anyone could have reasonably expected in his inaugural season in College Park -- Kevin Willard has righted the ship and set the Terrapins sailing toward brighter skies.

John C. Inglis left his post as the first national cyber director this week while the Biden administration plans a new cyber strategy.

Residents of McAllen, Texas, and nearby localities were alarmed Wednesday when they heard a boom.

Manny Machado says he plans to exercise the opt-out clause in his contract with the San Diego Padres after this season.

Search teams have recovered debris from a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down Feb. 4 off the coast of South Carolina after spending nearly a week floating over military sites, officials with U.S. Northern Command said Friday.

Grieving families and advocates say there is an alarming mismatch between the severe and immediate threat posed by fentanyl and the level of awareness across America, especially among young people who do not consume mainstream media.

Defensive Biden administration officials on Friday pushed back on criticism that its response to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, was lackluster, insisting visits to the affected community would have only delayed efforts to address the incident.

Attorneys for Donald Trump want to ban from his upcoming civil rape trial the "Access Hollywood" tape in which the former president boasts graphically about how celebrities can molest women.

Officials with the U.S. Forest Service have announced they are moving forward with a plan to destroy a herd of 50 to 150 feral cattle in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness by shooting them from the air.

Officials with the U.S. Forest Service have announced they are moving forward with a plan to destroy a herd of 50 to 150 feral cattle in New Mexico's Gila Wilderness by shooting them from the air.

Four U.S. troops were wounded and a senior Islamic State leader was killed during a Thursday night helicopter raid in northeastern Syria, the Pentagon said Friday, marking the American military's latest counterterrorism operation in the war-torn country.

The Washington Commanders got their guy.

The 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign -- the presidential contest that could not possibly lose to a political neophyte, especially one so distasteful and utterly devoid of Beltway savoir faire -- nevertheless played some dirty tricks just to ensure victory ("John Durham's genius and the death of the 'Russia hoax,'" Web, Feb. 15).

In our current world, policing is a major issue.

Take a ride through Daytona International Speedway's main tunnel and photos of some of the most celebrated events in track history line the walls.

By failing to destroy manned or unmanned aircraft as soon as possible, the Department of Defense and President Biden place our people in harm's way and fail to protect our sovereignty.

An Illinois-based hobbyist club says one of its high-altitude balloons went missing off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10, offering a potential explanation for one of the three still officially unidentified objects shot down over North American airspace the past week.

Liverpool center back Virgil van Dijk is on track to start at Newcastle on Saturday after sitting out for nearly six weeks with a hamstring injury.

Electrical trouble overnight Thursday closed Terminal 1 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Combat fighter jets assigned to the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command intercepted four Russian military aircraft this week that were approaching the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone. It was the second such incident in as many days, NORAD officials said.

Barcelona, the team that once awed the soccer world with its beautiful style on the field and its social commitment to being "more than a club," is in danger of tarnishing its reputation with a scandal of its own making.