Новости за 26.08.2015

About 300 Fort Bragg soldiers attended a financial literacy workshop, which focused on protecting soldiers from being victimized and helping them create a financial plan and set goals for the future.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will stop selling military-style weapons such as the AR-15 rifle this fall, citing declining customer demand for the controversial firearms.

A team of nuclear waste experts has found hundreds of serious defects at an Energy Department plant designed to turn millions of gallons of highly radioactive sludge into more stable solid glass at the former weapons facility in Hanford, Wash.

A member of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia faces a possible life sentence after admitting his role in the 2003 kidnapping of three Americans.

Marcy Borders had only recently begun working for Bank of America in the World Trade Center when the first plane struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

For “Star Wars” fans, Christmas is coming early this year: on Sept. 4, when the toys tied to Walt Disney Co.’s first film in the space-adventure series go on sale.

The transmission of now-classified information across Hillary Rodham Clinton's private email is consistent with a State Department culture in which diplomats routinely sent secret material on unsecured email during the past two administrations, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

Two massive groups of paratroops, separated by hundreds of miles of countryside, conducted airdrops Wednesday as part of the largest NATO airborne exercise in Europe since the end of the Cold War.

When President Barack Obama visits Alaska this month, he'll be greeted by politicians eager to show off their state's vast wilderness and stirring scenery — and skeptical of White House plans to protect those resources.

Two U.S. servicemembers were shot and killed by two gunmen wearing Afghan security forces uniforms who opened fire on their vehicle in southern Afghanistan early Wednesday, U.S. and coalition officials said.

“He is a student of Gracie jiu jitsu,” said Lt. Col. Richard Smith, commander of the 65th Medical Support/Medical Operations Squadron at Lajes Field, Azores, where Stone is assigned. “At Lajes, there was a small community of devotees of jiu jitsu. He fell in with them.”

The Pentagon inspector general is looking into allegations that Central Command officials altered intelligence assessments to provide a more optimistic account of progress in the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, it was reported Wednesday.

The Pentagon inspector general is looking into allegations that Central Command officials altered intelligence assessments to provide a more optimistic account of progress in the U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, it was reported Wednesday.

Two women sailors currently serving in Bahrain are heading out on a deep-sea journey where no female enlisted servicemembers have gone before.

The first four of the female enlisted sailors selected for the Navy's "silent service" began training this week at submarine school in Groton, the latest milestone in the elimination of one of the U.S. military's few remaining gender barriers.

Israel on Tuesday began releasing about 1,200 African migrants from a remote desert detention facility after the Supreme Court overturned legislation allowing them to be held without charges for up to 20 months.

Many difficult questions now present themselves, and presumably the FBI is asking them. Did Clinton staffers in the State Department violate federal laws systematically and independently? If not, who told them to do this?

Bolstering deterrence is essential in addressing key vulnerabilities we see in the deal. A blunter statement on the consequences of Iran moving toward a weapon and of producing highly enriched uranium would allay some of our concerns.

Anti-immigrant riots, tear gas, border barriers and hate crimes won't deter the thousands of refugees from Syria and other war-torn regions, a U.N. special envoy on human rights warned Tuesday after days of violence against migrants seeking to reach safety in Europe.

If you ask why he stays so connected to countries he no longer has to serve in, he said: “It’s the people I met over there. Iraq is not a macro thing anymore. It’s very micro.”

Roughly 1,400 mothers, fathers and children locked up awaiting their asylum hearings could soon be released as the Department of Homeland Security works to comply with a scathing federal ruling against the Obama administration's expanded use of family detention camps.

This week’s financial roller coaster, with markets seesawing from Shanghai to Manhattan, is a reminder of the interdependence of the world economy. That’s a reality that’s uncomfortable for both the U.S. and China.

In a "serious risk" to national security, Hillary Clinton gave her State Department emails containing Top Secret and other classified information to her lawyer, who lacked sufficient clearances to possess it and who kept it for as long as eight months, the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee charged Tuesday.

If North Dakota, the country's 48th-biggest state by population, were a city, it would sit behind Baltimore, Denver, and Philadelphia for the volume of Iran-related ads that have run this year, and ahead of New York City.