News about USA

SpaceX to try ocean platform landing of Falcon rocket SpaceX aims to propel modern rocket science into a brave new era by landing a key part of its Falcon 9 rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.

06 January 2015

Boston bombing trial opens with jury selection The long-awaited trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev began with jury selection, 20 months after the shocking attack.

06 January 2015

New York mayor, top cop criticize funeral protest New York Mayor and police commissioner Bill Bratton criticized dozens of officers for turning their backs on the mayor at the funeral of a murdered policeman.

06 January 2015

Obama invites new Tunisian president to Washington President Barack Obama has invited Tunisia's first democratically elected president to visit Washington.

06 January 2015

Morgan Stanley fires employee for stealing client data US investment bank Morgan Stanley said it had fired an employee for stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of wealth management customers.

06 January 2015

'Small screens' prevent kids from sleeping: US study Children who have access to tablets or smartphones in their bedrooms get less sleep than children who do not have the devices with them at night.

05 January 2015

Questioning Golovkin's profitability is an excuse: Tom Loeffler Former WBO middleweight title-holder Peter Quillin questioned Gennady Golovkin’s profitability.

05 January 2015

Thousands bid farewell to murdered New York cop Thousands of police gathered in New York to bid farewell to a murdered officer where a small number used the funeral to protest against mayor Bill de Blasio once again.

05 January 2015

Lawsuit accuses Apple of storage sleight of hand Apple faced a lawsuit accusing it of promising more available storage space than it actually delivers in iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices.

03 January 2015

Not all obese people prone to poor health: study US scientists encouraged 20 obese people to eat extra fast food for several months, and found that about a quarter stayed in good health.

03 January 2015

US slaps sanctions on North Korea after Sony hack The United States imposed new sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for a cyber attack on Hollywood studio Sony Pictures.

03 January 2015

Actress Zoe Saldana has twin boys US actress Zoe Saldana announced Friday she had given birth to twin boys, Cy and Bowie, with her Italian artist husband Marco Perego.

03 January 2015

No visa free entrance to USA and EU for Kazakhstanis in nearest future: Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Foreign Affairs Yerlan Idrissov declared that Kazakhstan would not obtain visa free regime from the USA and the European Union in the nearest future.

02 January 2015

Five Guantanamo prisoners released to Kazakhstan Five Guantanamo detainees have been released to Kazakhstan.

01 January 2015

Jennifer Lawrence, 'Hunger Games' stars team up in Ebola video Jennifer Lawrence says she'd be fine if she got Ebola, in a video that encourages Americans to focus more on West Africans far more likely to die from the dreaded virus.

31 December 2014

US blacklists more Russians tied to whistleblower death The US rolled out new sanctions against Russian officials Monday under its "Magnitsky" law, named after a Russian whistleblower who died in a Moscow prison in 2009.

30 December 2014

'The Wolf of Wall Street' tops 2014 illegal downloads Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" and Disney's animated fantasy hit "Frozen" were the two most pirated films of 2014.

30 December 2014

New York mayor greeted by heckles at police ceremony Simmering tensions between the city of New York's police force and its top official boiled over again into public view.

30 December 2014

Hillary Clinton trumps Jeb Bush in 2016 matchup: poll Presumed Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton would comfortably defeat Jeb Bush for president if the two members of their famous US political clans went head to head in 2016.

30 December 2014

New boxers, new Olympic managers for Astana Arlans in 5th Season of WSB The Kazakhstani boxing club Astana Arlans has presented the team members of the new season at the AIBA World Boxing Academy in Almaty.

29 December 2014

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