Новости за 24.10.2016

In a continued attempt to keep kids from bingeing on candy this Halloween, the Connecticut State Dental Association will once again sponsor a Halloween Candy Buy Back Program.

The last major shipbuilder on the West Coast began informing 700 employees Friday they may lose their jobs in January.

Arlington National Cemetery will banish pets from its 624 acres under a new policy taking effect Wednesday, cemetery officials announced.

A federal judge has again postponed the child pornography sentencing of a former Navy chaplain and Catholic priest who was convicted of sexually assaulting a Naval Academy midshipman years ago.

Thousands of people who lived for the past two years under the rule of the militants have begun to escape their villages as a huge Iraqi force closes in on the northern city of Mosul, free now to tell their stories of brutality and privation and near-death escapes.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has promoted his namesake business, holding events at Trump-branded hotels and golf courses from Scotland to Florida. As the race approaches its conclusion amid a torrent of controversy, his company is launching a new brand that won't carry his name.

Larry Hasbrouck spent a portion of his time in the cold war at the controls of a Minuteman, ready to personally turn one of the two keys that would launch an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuclear warhead.

An ongoing effort to add more than a 1,000 agents and uniformed officers to the ranks by next fall comes during the most taxing 12-month period in the history of the service.

Iraqi and peshmerga forces have reclaimed about 800 square miles of territory around Mosul during the first week of an operation to expel the Islamic State group from its final urban stronghold in the country, U.S. officials said Monday.

An Augusta University professor is being funded to do research on the health disparities of female veterans involved in the first Gulf War compared to their male counterparts.

Dedicated to "educating minds and building character for life," 14-year-old Jake Cosgrove's Mini World War II Museum opened early this summer in his family's driveway.

Within weeks of the Pentagon allowing transgender service members to serve openly, Army officials said 10 soldiers have formally asked to be recognized as their new, preferred gender.

Security measures needed to prevent more Islamic State group attacks in Europe and the United States are expected to be the focus of Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s discussions Tuesday with French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Three Chinese naval warships arrived in the Vietnamese port of Cam Ranh Bay on Saturday, just weeks after the first visit to the strategic site by U.S. vessels since the former wartime foes normalized relations 21 years ago,

America's top diplomat for Asia said Monday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's controversial remarks and a "real climate of uncertainty" about his government's intentions have sparked distress in the U.S. and other countries.

Israel's defense chief threatened Gaza's militant Hamas rulers and dismissed the Palestinian president as an incapable leader in a rare interview published Monday in the main Palestinian newspaper.

Tom Hayden, a 1960s radical who was in the vanguard of the movement to stop the Vietnam War and became one of the nation’s best-known champions of liberal causes, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 76.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange first outlined the hypothesis nearly a decade ago: Can total transparency defeat an entrenched group of insiders?

A top House Republican on Sunday called for an investigation into the Army National Guard effort to reclaim decade-old, wartime re-enlistment bonuses from thousands of troops.

Tensions between Turkey and Iraq showed no sign of subsiding on Monday with Turkish leaders saying the country was engaged in the offensive to retake Mosul from the Islamic State groups while Iraq denied the claim.

Syrian government forces and their allies on Monday captured strategic high ground in embattled Aleppo as Russia - a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad - said it was not planning more "humanitarian pauses" in the fighting in the city's eastern, rebel-held districts.

Some of the White House materials bound for President Barack Obama's presidential library in Chicago will start making their way from Washington, D.C., to Illinois this week.

France's foreign minister has urged Turkey to respect rights and freedoms in the aftermath of a failed coup, saying democracy is the best defense against those trying to defy it.

A senior Chinese diplomat reportedly visited North Korea on Monday, the first high-ranking official to do so in eight months.

A Virginia taxi driver has pleaded guilty to trying to help a friend join the Islamic State group.