Новости за 13.11.2015

The White House has gone to great lengths to show that President Barack Obama isn't a lame duck. It's less worried about showing he's not a lame tourist.

What is it? Hanging from the seven-story dome of the largest indoor atrium in federal government hands, the newly installed sculpture is sleek yet weighty, covered in polished metal but seemingly lifelike. Artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle set out to first attract viewers by the appealing look of the sculpture, then invite them to wrestle with the troubling tale about all that surrounds it.

Vice President Joe Biden will visit Ukraine early next month for meetings with the country's president, prime minister and members of parliament.

The U.S. military is "reasonably certain" its drone strike in Syria killed the masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John," who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages.

Eight months after launching a war in Yemen, Saudi Arabia appears trapped in a protracted and devastating conflict that is straining relations with its allies, intensifying internal power struggles and emboldening its regional rival, Iran, analysts say.

A Palestinian gunman opened fire on Friday, killing an Israeli father and son as they were driving in the West Bank and wounding at least one other person in the car, Israeli officials said, the latest in a nearly two-month rash of violence and almost daily Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to call on countries participating in a series of international meetings during his 10-day Asian tour to implement measures to address China's maritime advances in the South China Sea and to cooperate to rebuild the global economy, according to sources.

Just months ago, the signing of a U.S.-backed peace deal provided a road map to end South Sudan's brutal civil war. But the conflict has raged on – and aid agencies say even more child soldiers are being drawn into the fighting.

The Department of Veterans Affairs said Friday it was reviewing a bill in Congress that could give sick vets across the country access to medical marijuana as early as next month.

Nearly 30,000 post-9/11 combat veterans – some of whom have been waiting for years – are still without Department of Veterans Affairs health benefits due to a technicality more than three months after a whistleblower brought the issue to light.

The USNS Brunswick has successfully completed sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico.

A secret Defense Department program provides unfettered eavesdropping on the accused terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo’s clandestine Camp 7 lockup, recently released war court documents show.

Federal and state authorities have charged a uniformed Secret Service officer from Maryland with sending obscene images and texts to someone he thought was a young Delaware girl, sometimes sending online communications while on duty at the White House.

For years, the widow and daughter of Staff Sgt. Donald Stewart were plagued by doubts about the airman’s 1979 funeral at Arlington National Cemetery. Stewart, a load master, went missing in action in 1965 when a C-123 transport aircraft crashed on a mountainside in Phu Yen, a coastal province in Vietnam between Danang and Ho Chi Minh City, then known as Saigon.

Two Air Force B-52 bombers flew over international airspace within 15 nautical miles of one of the Spratly Islands recently, prompting a Chinese radio warning.

A highly unusual memorial and burial, in the small rural farming town of Powell, Wyoming, was held Wednesday to celebrate and lay to rest a soldier.

The Pentagon says U.S. forces have conducted an airstrike in Syria targeting the British man known as "Jihadi John" who participated in the beheading videos of two American journalists and the slayings of several other captives.

A sign on the edge of the tiny Seneca County village of Bloomville bears the words relatives of Dean Chaney thought they would never hear, “Welcome home.”

Like any peace process that’s contemplated while a war is raging, this one is a series of “ifs” stacked on top of each other.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday removed his top military assistant from his advisory team, citing alleged misconduct.

A large majority of voters believe Hillary Clinton did something either unethical or illegal in her use of a private email system for government business, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.

The white college student arrested on suspicion of posting a social media threat to shoot black University of Missouri students expressed a “deep interest” in the Umpqua Community College massacre in Oregon, according to court documents.

Plans by a neo-Nazi to turn two south-central Nebraska towns into all-white hamlets ran off the rails last week after residents joined forces to sabotage the effort.

A special warfare exercise across parts of Texas and the nation will bring civilian role players acting as journalists, government officials and "guerrilla-chiefs."

Air Force Col. Martha McSally was leading a squadron of A-10 attack jets over Afghanistan when they encountered U.S. forces engaged in a desperate fight against Islamic insurgents. A decade later, McSally is in her first year in Congress and on a different sort of rescue mission: She’s trying to save the A-10 Thunderbolt II.