Новости за 19.09.2015

It’s not simply because liberals tweet phrases like “universal healthcare” while conservatives tweet about the military — although there are certain political buzzwords each side tends to favor.

The Afghan government on Saturday rejected Pakistan's claim that a militant attack on a military base near Peshawar was planned and controlled from Afghanistan.

Justin Taylan has been to the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea dozens of times over the past two decades, spending countless hours slogging through crocodile-infested swamps in his quest to document as many World War II airplane wreck sites as possible.

Donald Trump's rivals emerged from the second Republican debate newly confident that the brash billionaire will fade if the nomination fight takes a more substantive turn, and that they can play a role in taking him down without hurting their own White House ambitions.

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina caused millions of dollars in damage to the home of the president of the Confederacy - and seven years after the National Historic Landmark on the Mississippi Gulf Coast was restored - termites, water damage and rot are eating into some of the exterior boards of the home in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Gov. Terry McAuliffe's administration Friday refused to release the application forms of state Senate candidate Gary McCollum for two state boards. McCollum came under criticism recently when he acknowledged the inaccuracy of statements in his literature that he was "currently a Major in the Army Reserve."

Falcons, 1-4 a season ago, earn a moral victory of sorts for tying defending champion Royals.

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey on Friday joined a growing chorus of American officials asking President Obama to press his Chinese counterpart on damaging cyberattacks during a state visit next week.

Santasha Quarles was emphatic. "I don't do pageants," she told the Pentagon coworker who suggested she compete for Ms. Veteran America.

A Veterans Summit hosted by four El Paso County lawmakers next week aims to match former service members with state resources available to them while also trying to identify shortcomings in the programs.

Tonja Anderson-Dell lives in Tampa, Florida, but a good part of her time and attention is focused thousands of miles away – on an Alaska glacier. Like dozens of family members of servicemembers killed in a 1952 plane crash on Colony Glacier she is still awaiting word on the identification of her grandfather's remains.

Though the Saints entered the season with a small roster of players, seven different Aviano runners carried the ball for a total of 205 yards and five different Saints found the end zone

The German Air Force will be hosting their 19th annual Oktoberfest celebration at Holloman Air Force Base Sept. 26.

U.S. intelligence analysts are scrutinizing a newly modified North Korean satellite launch facility but see no imminent threat despite the reclusive government's latest threats of nuclear attack against the United States.

Lt. Cmdr. Landon Jones and Chief Warrant Officer Jonathan Gibson had just landed their MH-60 helicopter on the USS William P. Lawrence when a wall of water hit the destroyer and broke the chains attaching the helicopter to the flight deck. The aircraft and its pilots were washed overboard.

Quarterback Len Pick threw three touchdown passes to Marten Pardo and James Daly ran for a touchdown as the Raiders erased an 18-0 halftime deficit.

Fort Carson soldiers who crash-landed a drone in a Colorado Springs neighborhood in May will get remedial training after an investigation found they didn't have proper clearance to fly the small RQ-11 Raven aircraft and failed to tell key leaders at the post that the drone had been lost.

The spokesman for Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says some 100,000 security personnel have been deployed to oversee the annual Islamic hajj pilgrimage that begins on Tuesday.

Bitburg pounded the visiting Tigers 44-6 in the season opener for both DODDS-Europe Division II hopefuls, deploying an unstoppable running game and stout defense to regain the upper hand in the teams' recently-developed rivalry.

The outpouring of sympathy and expressions of concern for the plight of hundreds of thousands who’ve fled the Syrian civil war to reach Europe has not translated into financial support for international humanitarian aid intended to help the refugees still in the countries that border Syria.

The United States is disturbed by Russia's movement of tactical aircraft to Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday, acknowledging that the jets could pose a threat to American and allied military forces.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signaled his intentions to establish a Russian military air base in neighboring Belarus.

The central rail station here these days is a maze of eager but confused young men with backpacks and plastic bags, and exhausted families with overstuffed luggage holding what’s left of their worldly possessions. They collapse against walls, squat on benches, or pace, trying to figure out how to navigate new lives in this medieval city.

Pope Francis begins a 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States on Saturday, embarking on his first trip to the onetime Cold War foes after helping to nudge forward their historic rapprochement. He will be offering a show of solidarity with Cubans and making clear that Hispanics in the United States are the bedrock of the American church.

By late winter, the war had come home to Pickett Place. Grenades and small bombs exploded in the living room. Automatic weapons fire echoed off the walls. Soldiers shouted to one another. One fell wounded. Whitley Morton had tried to make their house a retreat, but her husband, Jayson, wouldn’t let go of the Xbox.