Новости за 11.04.2024

The Biden administration has finalized the largest expansion of gun-sales background checks since the advent of the federal check system in the 1990s, moving to close the "gun show loophole" and online sales that have avoided checks in the past.

Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was sentenced Thursday to death by a court in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam in the country's largest financial fraud case ever, state media Thanh Nien said.

South Korea's prime minister and senior presidential officials offered to resign en masse Thursday after their ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections in a huge blow to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.

Jordan Westburg hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning and the Baltimore Orioles erased a five-run deficit to beat the Boston Red Sox 7-5 on Wednesday night.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida cracked jokes and invoked a touchstone of American culture as he quoted from "Star Trek" at Wednesday's state dinner, telling guests at the White House that he hoped the "unshakable relationship" between his country and the U.S. would "boldly go where no one had gone before."

A man was killed in a hail of bullets Wednesday night and five others were wounded -- including two boys -- after D.C. police said a pair of gunmen opened fire in Northeast.

Two psychologists testified Wednesday that a Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed a sixth-grade classmate nearly to death to please the online horror character Slender Man should not be released yet from a psychiatric hospital.

After his rapid rise to the majors, Jackson Holliday was given a particularly meaningful number with the Baltimore Orioles. Baseball's top-ranked prospect made his big league debut Wednesday at Fenway Park, starting at second base and batting ninth against the Boston Red Sox. He struck out swinging his first time up.

Workers hurriedly tried to shore up a rural Utah dam after a 60-foot (18-meter) crack opened and sent water pouring into a creek and endangering the 1,700 residents of a downstream town.

Days after Washington Nationals pitching great Stephen Strasburg, who left body parts on the mound, announced his retirement after 13 seasons of celebration and carnage, now the alarm is being sounded for a pitching injury crisis? Is this some warped version of a tribute to Strasburg?

A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed her partner at their Los Angeles apartment Monday then threw her two children from a moving SUV onto the freeway, killing her infant daughter, was an astrologer who called the impending solar eclipse "the epitome of spiritual warfare" in an online post days earlier.

Zach Edey of Purdue became the second two-time John R. Wooden Award winner as the nation's top men's college basketball player on Wednesday.

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's election interference case rejected the notion Wednesday that jailed defendants charged with some of the most violent crimes of the U.S. Capitol riot are "hostages" - a label Trump and his allies have frequently used to describe the prisoners.

The booming "gender-affirming care" industry suffered a devastating hit with the release of a long-awaited British review that found "remarkably weak evidence" to support treating children and young adults with gender-transition drugs and surgeries.

A U.S. Air Force veteran who fled a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child told his lawyer he joined Russia's army, and video appears to show him signing documents in a military enlistment office in Siberia.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio attracted some major star power to Washington for his state dinner at the White House on Wednesday night.

Nick Ahmed and Tyler Fitzgerald had three hits apiece and Jordan Hicks allowed one run in six innings as the San Francisco Giants avoided a three-game series sweep with a 5-1 win over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday.

A high school teacher was in court Tuesday after she was charged with convincing runaway students to work as prostitutes.

Chinese military forces are preparing for an invasion or blockade of Taiwan and could take action in less than a decade, the former admiral in charge of U.S. Navy intelligence warned recently.

Donald Trump is now 0 for 3 in last-minute attempts to get a New York appeals court to delay his looming hush money criminal trial. An appeals court judge Wednesday swiftly rejected the latest salvo from the former president's lawyers, who argued he should be on the campaign trail rather than "in a courtroom defending himself" starting next week.

National Public Radio's long-standing liberal tilt has gone off the rails, a veteran insider claimed in an essay that has raised new questions about political bias at the taxpayer-funded radio and television network.

President Biden is not the first president propped up by staffers when their boss's failing health compromised his abilities -- when he was no longer capable of doing his job.

The Raab Collection -- an international firm that buys and sells important historical documents -- has unveiled a remarkable letter penned on Dec. 3, 1777, by Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.

The U.S. Cyber Command's top official insisted Wednesday efforts to deter China and Russia's cyberattacks are working despite mounting hacks from those adversaries that have hammered American businesses and targeted critical infrastructure.

Republicans challenged Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, telling him that he's failed the American public which no longer trusts him to manage the border