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CIA Director John Brennan said Wednesday that the attack in Istanbul has the earmarks of strikes by Islamic State militants and that the group is likely trying to hit the United States in the Middle East and on U.S. soil.

The Delta Queen has carried three U.S. Presidents, dignitaries, and thousands of passengers through the tributaries of the Mississippi River. It also served as a naval ship during World War II.

Park Hyog Soo, the South Korean captain of the Panama-flagged K. Coral, said in an email that the entire effort felt like something out of a movie. "Until now I, and my crew, still can't believe that we had rescued 19 people," he said.

Dietmar Weselin was only 3 when American planes dropped bombs on his German town—and seared horrifying images into his memory.

There’s a secret about children that Steven Spielberg, Melissa Mathison and Roald Dahl have always known — that no matter how innocent, kids are as capable of understanding darkness as adults, and sometimes even more so. It’s not that it’s some completely unacknowledged truth, but it is one that rarely seems to permeate what we consider “children’s entertainment” in any real way. It just makes adults too uncomfortable. It’s also the reason why the under-10 set flocks to Dahl.

About 300 airstrikes against the Islamic State’s oil network in Iraq and Syria during the last two years have cut the terrorist group’s revenue by at least half, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.

“The Purge,” 2013’s low-budget home invasion horror hit, found its breakout star in The Purge itself: an annual 12 hour bloodbath of government-sanctioned mayhem. In this dystopian near-future, the New Founding Fathers of America have instituted the contained lawlessness in order to keep crime, and the population, in check. The 2014 sequel, “The Purge: Anarchy,” liberated audiences from the confines of a single home and let loose into the streets of murderous chaos.

It makes sense that the sensibilities of Steven Spielberg and Roald Dahl would someday collide, as they do in Spielberg's adaptation of Dahl's "The BFG." Both artists often tell stories about misunderstood children finding connections with misunderstood, fantastical, alien creatures. They have a knack for drawing out the dark and maudlin aspects of childhood, the loneliness and isolation, as well as the capacity for wonder and amazement, the sheer possibility of anything and everything. That dreamy... Читать дальше...

A couple of years after his sister's high-profile murder, Bill Genovese went to Vietnam, where he lost both legs. "Lying in the middle of that paddy, I was completely alone. I thought of Kitty. What was it like for her when she realized no one was going to save her?"

Islamic State militants on Wednesday pushed back U.S.-trained Syrian rebels from the outskirts of a town on the Iraqi border, dealing a setback to a budding offensive that aims to sever the militants' transit link between Syria and Iraq, a rebel spokesman said.

The previously unreported attack occurred just steps from the entrance to the U.S. Embassy complex. The diplomat suffered a broken shoulder, among other injuries. After entering the embassy, he was then flown out of Russia to receive urgent medical attention.

The coming week could be a watershed moment in the volatile debate over privatizing more health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

“The Neon Demon,” from Nicholas Winding Refn, the Danish auteur behind the Ryan Gosling cult flick “Drive,” is a movie primarily about Elle Fanning’s face. Specifically, the inimitable, effervescent, and most importantly, youthful beauty of her character, Jesse, a young model making her way into the gaping maw of the modeling industry in Los Angeles. There’s a real obsession and focus on her innocent, rounded visage that drives the film.

The Chung-Hoon will spend about 10 days at Pearl Harbor before heading out for the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercises with 26 nations, 45 ships, five submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel.

The Navy may be scuttling “yeoman” and the Marines ditching “infantryman” in favor of “infantry Marine.” For the time being, however, airmen will stay airmen, and many Air Force folks in the ranks think that’s just fine.

The Navy may be scuttling “yeoman” and the Marines ditching “infantryman” in favor of “infantry Marine.” For the time being, however, airmen will stay airmen, and many Air Force folks in the ranks think that’s just fine.

The discovery of tattered American flags strewn among a pile of trash at Veteran's Memorial Cemetery in Rhode Island has residents outraged.

From the metallic shell of the 1996 smash "Independence Day," director Roland Emmerich has pulled a seriously lousy sequel, dripping with alien goo and incoherence.

The court will release its decision on the South China Sea on July 12. The Philippines brought the case to the tribunal, challenging China's assertions to more than 80 percent of the South China Sea.

Soldiers across the Army are now permitted to roll up their sleeves, just as Marines, sailors and airmen do.

A Fort Bragg soldier was charged with two additional sex crimes Friday, making the total number of charges he is facing 12, court documents said.

A church official in a remote South Sudan town says more than 50 people have been killed in fighting between government troops and a new rebel group.

Hope died that day, and the modern age began.

The mistake was not our minimal effort to speed up Gadhafi’s ouster by his own people, but in our negligence after he was gone.