Новости за 02.08.2015

The Navy will relax the body weight standards in its physical fitness assessment beginning next year, as it moves away from what service leaders say is too narrow a gauge of health and physical ability.

What started as a joke between Marines in a San Diego recovery room in the spring ended Sunday, more than 4,000 miles later in Virginia, as double amputee Toran Gaal hand-cranked his bike past the Marine Corps Memorial, through a row of American flags into the arms of his wife and children for the first time in two months.

About $15,000 in cash was stolen from American Legion Post 86 in Gray Saturday night by thieves who broke into a safe.

Several teams of veterans have been in the Uwharrie National Forest (UNF) since Thursday looking for Michael Kirkpatrick, a missing veteran from Fayetteville. Kirkpatrick, 29, is a combat veteran of the Iraq war and suffers from PTSD.

Four soldiers from the Texas National Guard were injured during a training exercise at Fort Bliss, officials said.

The biggest target officials had in their sights wasn't located on Fort Bragg, which hosted the bulk of the weekend-long operation. Carolina Thunder, in part, was a shot on Washington.

A recording of Emperor Hirohito’s voice declaring Japan’s surrender in World War II has been brought back to life after 70 years, in a previously unavailable, higher quality recording of the historic broadcast that was made available to the public Sunday.

Fifty-one years ago, an American president deceived the public about the true purpose of a U.S. military mission, ushering in a decade of foreign policy disasters. Unfortunately, this method of abusing democracy has continued, on a bipartisan basis, to the present day, when it is casting a shadow over U.S. policy in Syria.

NASA is offering up wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia for public view after hiding it from the world for decades.

Someone please tell those of us who served why the service that does virtually all the dying and killing in war is the one least rewarded.

The brother of the late figurehead of the Afghan Taliban on Sunday joined a growing challenge to the extremist group's newly appointed leader, even as it offered a statement purportedly quoting a well-known militant supporting him.

Malaysian officials said Sunday that they would seek help from territories near the island where a suspected piece of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet was discovered to try to find more plane debris.

Some who display it are motivated by pride in their ancestry or enthusiasm for Southern history. Others see it as a symbol of their right to challenge to authority in general, and the federal government in particular. And some have hoisted Confederate flags in recent weeks precisely because it's generating controversy again.

Benin's president has vowed to contribute 800 troops to a regional force intended to combat the Nigeria-based Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.

Central African Republic has been rocked by violence since the mostly Muslim Seleka rebel coalition toppled the president in 2013.

Our staff-selected photos of the week of the Navy in action.

When the U.S.-Dakota War set settlers on edge in the fall of 1862, historical sources indicate a stockade encircled the site, one of a half-dozen such forts once existed in Stearns County, Minn.

DogVacay seems to offer a useful example of just what the potential and limits of the on-demand economy are.

This whole same-sex crusade to drag the Scouts into the tolerant light of the 21st century is so hypocritical, as are the pious pronouncement from advocates about how “it’s for the kids.”

U.S. pressure has finally brought Turkey to the frontline of the war on Islamic State, but only at the risk of alienating another key member of the coalition.

Since our very beginning, Planned Parenthood health centers, providers and patients have come under outrageous attacks, political and otherwise. These attacks are not about us. They are about the ability of women across the country to access health care. Period.

Those killed included the group's leader, who was accused of staging December's attack in Chechnya's provincial capital, Grozny, which left 25 people dead.

Executives of Planned Parenthood’s federally subsidized meat markets — your tax dollars at work — lack the courage of their convictions. They should drop the pretense of conducting a complex moral calculus about the organs they harvest from the babies they kill.

Plenty of conservatives have proposed alternatives to Obama’s Iran deal — and not just war.

A good way to tell the Republican base that you share their values even if you don’t speak their language is to signal concern that blunt talk will prove self-defeating — costing votes in the general election.