Новости за 28.02.2016

The Soldiers Memorial Military Museum closes today for a two-year, $30-million renovation.

The soaring, white transportation hub opening next week at the World Trade Center was designed to evoke a bird in flight, but it is hatching under a cloud.

Ronald Hamilton, 32, is being held without bond in the Prince William County Adult Detention Center on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer.

Adam Keys, an injured veteran of the war in Afghanistan, said the sort of support he received Saturday from nonprofit groups and Boy Scouts helps him maintain a positive outlook on life. "I was injured and sometimes when you're sitting there by yourself, with your mom or your sister ... you're sort of thinking, 'What's going to happen next?'" said Keys, who enlisted in the Army in 2008.

More than two years after his aircraft crashed following an intelligence-gathering mission in Afghanistan, the Army has released the results of an investigation into the death of Sgt. Drew M. Scobie, the only Hawaii National Guard soldier to be killed in fighting in the country.

What will a few hundred troops do now that tens of thousands of troops over many years could not before?

An Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon was arrested on murder and other charges in the death of a police officer and another person, authorities said Sunday.

A YouTube video of a drone-mounted handgun firing rounds into the Connecticut woods - and a companion video of a flying flamethrower lighting up a spit-roasting Thanksgiving turkey - have reignited efforts by state legislators to make it a crime to weaponize an unmanned aerial vehicle.

Participants in the European PTA Spelling Bee on Saturday displayed the kind of confidence and composure that would have put most adults to shame.

At some point soon, Cubans should rejoin the line with other would-be immigrants from the Caribbean and Central America. But policymakers should be focusing on how to make that line shorter.

The crowd noise was deafening at times at the Clay Kaserne Fitness Center on Saturday as 19 cheer squads faced off at DODEA-Europe’s 21st Annual Cheer Tournament of Champions.

Though voters may speak piously and rather vaguely about Christian values and ideals, polls and election results communicate clearly that this is a nation consumed by fear, anger and suspicion, none of which are Christian virtues.

Watching the fight unfold between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over who should choose the next Supreme Court justice, Michael A. Bowden got angry at what he saw at the latest affront to the first black president.

A methane gas leak at a coal mine in Russia's far north triggered three explosions that ignited fires and partially collapsed the mine, killing 36 people, officials said Sunday.

Lawmakers in Ireland expressed a sense of shellshock and division Sunday over whether the country's next government should be a historic alliance of age-old foes — or whether there should be a second election.

Authorities have jailed an Algerian citizen for possible links with the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

Militants attacked an outdoor market on Sunday in eastern Baghdad, killing at least 59 people and wounding nearly 100, officials said.

Two years after the last Syrian rebels left the besieged Old City of Homs, voices echo through the shells of bombed-out buildings, their upper floors tilted at odd angles as though frozen in time.

Martin Shkreli this month became the face of what’s wrong with the U.S. drug industry. A congressional committee hauled in the former chief of Turing Pharmaceuticals and asked him to justify boosting the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent, charging $750 per pill for a drug that had sold for $13.50.

The Pentagon's newest effort to clean up misconduct in the ranks started with a simple question last week at the Air Force Academy. Ethics officers and others identified a key issue as a lack of trust in leadership.

Gene Renuart loitered above the battlefield, raining hell on demand from the cockpit of his A-10 Warthog. Ryan Gonsalves and Michael Crosby rumbled through clouds of dust churned up as hundreds of American tanks and Bradleys tore through the Kuwaiti desert.

Following its pledge to more tightly control media, Chinese authorities shut down microblogging accounts belonging to a real estate mogul and frequent government critic after he lambasted state media organs for swearing fealty to the ruling Communist Party.

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday joined his predecessor in office in unloading on Donald Trump, calling the Republican front-runner's campaign racist and saying his discourse on immigration is fueling anti-American sentiment around the world.

Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz released summary pages of their recent tax filings on Saturday, seeking to capitalize on GOP front-runner Donald Trump's refusal to release similar information.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is playing defense on at least one issue these days: his role in a now-defunct real estate seminar business called Trump University.