Новости за 01.09.2015

The military says it may move 51 supply jobs at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois to Virginia in a cost-cutting move.

On Monday, more than 45 years after he was wounded in combat, Vietnam veteran Ed Deuschle was presented the Silver Star, the Air Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge, three of eight medals he was to receive for his military service.

Norfolk Public Schools has been awarded a five-year, $1.5 million federal grant to support children of military families.

Islamic State militants in Syria committed an "intolerable crime against civilization" by destroying the Temple of Bel, one of the ancient world's most iconic monuments, the head of the U.N. cultural agency said Tuesday.

The U.S.-led coalition has ramped up its air campaign against the Islamic State, with the number of munitions dropped on targets in Iraq and Syria increasing by 60 percent in July over the previous month, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter took questions from the ranks Tuesday on issues from budget gridlock to women in combat arms during a first-ever "Worldwide Troop Talk" with servicemembers around the world.

Nigeria's former national security adviser pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of possessing weapons illegally.

Chanting "Freedom! Freedom!," angry migrants demanded to be let aboard trains bound for Austria and Germany after Hungary temporarily suspended all rail traffic Tuesday from its main Budapest terminal and brawny police forced hundreds of migrants out of the train station.

Immigration agents arrested more than 240 people with criminal records during a four-day sting in Southern California, authorities said Monday in a show of force that comes as fewer people are being deported.

The United States is sending an aircraft carrier named after an iconic, defense hawk president to be its new face in Asia.

The United States is sending an aircraft carrier named after an iconic, defense hawk president to be its new face in Asia.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday accused Colombia's government of giving its consent to a plan to assassinate him as both countries try to rally regional support in a border dispute exacerbating tensions between the two neighbors.

The Going Global Defense Initiative is a state program that helps Virginia defense contractors diversify beyond the Pentagon.

Al-Shabab overran an African Union base in southern Somalia early Tuesday, a Somali military official said, in the latest display of the Islamic extremists' capacity to hit back amid a prolonged offensive against them.

Coastal Pines Technical College in Georgia will soon provide students with an Engineering Technology Associate of Applied Science degree program.

A Muslim leader in Dearborn Heights, Mich. said he recently met in prison in Iran with Amir Hekmati, the U.S. Marine veteran held captive in Iran for four years, suggesting that he could be released soon.

Stephen Dennis enlisted in the Navy soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. By the end of the war, the young sailor from upstate New York was a shipboard radioman helping news organizations get the word out to the world that the Japanese had officially surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945.

A national group of veterans and their families, upset with the Department of Veterans Affairs, has brought its protest to Tampa — in the form of a message on an electronic billboard near the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital.

SpaceX said its next launch will be delayed longer than expected after the June 28 accident that destroyed its unmanned ship carrying cargo to the International Space Station.

Angry Senate and House Republicans from Ohio question President Barack Obama’s legal authority to remove President William McKinley’s name from the country’s tallest mountain and restore its original Native American name of Denali.

The first official action President Barack Obama took on arriving in downtown Anchorage on Monday for a whirlwind, three-day climate change tour of the biggest state in America was to sit down with a group of Alaska native leaders.

Judging from rhetoric alone, Republicans seem to want to achieve what Obamacare has already accomplished.

Trump is a far more potent phenomenon than most establishment Republicans or pundits deemed possible just a few months ago.

Normalization is still a long way off for Ukraine. The bloody clashes Monday are evidence that violence is much more likely to erupt.

Restoring the U.S. to its historic role as an Arctic power will require a recognition of the complex and strategic issues at stake.