Новости за 19.05.2016

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell pledged in a letter to two U.S. senators on Thursday that the National Football League would "promptly" return more than $700,000 teams had been paid to perform military tributes during games.

Many Americans know about the trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Lesser known were the complicated and sometimes controversial trials of about 5,700 accused Japanese war criminals in Tokyo and other Asian Pacific countries where the Japanese had unleashed unspeakable crimes against humanity — including in the Philippines.

Many Americans know about the trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. Lesser known were the complicated and sometimes controversial trials of about 5,700 accused Japanese war criminals in Tokyo and other Asian Pacific countries where the Japanese had unleashed unspeakable crimes against humanity — including in the Philippines.

It was Ronald Mallory's first visit to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial — “the Wall” — and like so many of the 35 veterans of the 359th Transportation Company who joined him May 11, the experience left him speechless.

Democrats in the California Senate made another attempt Thursday to outlaw the sale of assault weapons with easily detachable ammunition magazines as part of a wide-ranging slate of gun control bills that were approved.

The House and Senate passed annual Department of Veterans Affairs budget bills Thursday that would allow doctors to discuss and advise veteran patients to use marijuana in states where it is legal.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized before the Canadian Parliament for a third time Thursday, saying he expects better behavior of himself after elbowing a female lawmaker in the chest and grabbing another lawmaker.

Iraqi military forces said Thursday that they have retaken the desert town of Rutbah from the Islamic State after a two-day battle during which commanders said they countered limited resistance from the militants.

Six couples came to this retreat in Virginia because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had wreaked havoc on their lives and relationships. They’d been skeptical: Nothing had worked. What could a long weekend do?

Two boys and two girls teams with the best round-robin records at the end of Friday's matches will advance directly to Saturday's championship games

When paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division's quick-reaction force jump near Torun, Poland, next month on a NATO exercise, an all-terrain vehicle it's evaluating will descend by parachute as well, an Army commander said.

It’s been nearly a year since federal prosecutors accused Xiaoxing Xi, a world-renowned Temple University physicist, of selling scientific secrets with potential military applications to China. It’s been eight months since they abruptly dropped all charges — with little explanation. After all this time, Xi still has few answers.

Members of the U.N. Security Council are visiting Somalia to support the country's upcoming elections as well as its efforts to defeat an insurgency by Islamic extremists.

The chairman of the House Benghazi committee on Thursday complained that the Pentagon has failed to provide the names of all the pilots who sent drones over Libya the night of the deadly 2012 attacks, slowing the more than two-year-old investigation.

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

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

An EgyptAir jetliner en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard swerved wildly in flight and crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday, authorities said. Egyptian and Russian officials said it may have been brought down by terrorists.

President Barack Obama and the United States favor illegal migration in Europe because they want to fill it up with Muslims, the chief of staff of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Thursday.

Morley Safer, the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, and who exposed a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans' view of the war, died Thursday, according to Kevin Tedesco, a CBS News publicist.

Bird nest cams have become hugely popular, and spring is when they're full of action. Millions of viewers log on to see live-streamed egg-laying, egg-incubating and chick-hatching. Along the way, many become attached to the little birds. But nests are also nature, and nature can be nasty.

Two teams from Black Forest and AFNORTH make cut, joining entries from Aviano, Bitburg, Florence and Marymount.

Panthers have teams in both final fours. Ramstein boys ousted and Royal girls suffer first defeat though still alive.

Three retired four-star generals, including former Army Chief of Staff Raymond T. Odierno, took aim at a lagging economy and political dysfunction during a discussion of the biggest threats to the U.S. military.

City councilors in the northern Polish city of Szczecin have decided to move a giant stone monument honoring the Red Army out of a central square and into the city's main cemetery.

A majority of senior federal cyber officials responding to a survey said they don't think the U.S. government can detect cyber attacks while they're under way.