Новости за 03.02.2017

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley condemned Russia's "aggressive actions" in eastern Ukraine on Thursday and warned Moscow that U.S. sanctions imposed after its annexation of Crimea will remain until the peninsula is returned to Ukraine.

Following a special Friday ceremony in Maine, the Navy is scheduled to take possession of the guided-missile destroyer Rafael Peralta, named for the valiant San Diego Marine killed in Iraq in 2004.

Trump's pledge was a nod to his evangelical Christian supporters, who helped power his White House win. So far he has not detailed his plans for doing away with the Johnson Amendment, which he has previously promised to rescind.

The Heffner family moved from Texas to Lacey about two years ago. Her husband, Corrie Heffner, is stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord with the U.S. Army.

A pair of new bills in the state Legislature from Houston County, Ga. lawmakers propose changes that might be important to female veterans and some Georgia National Guard members.

Former Louisiana Veterans Affairs Secretary David LaCerte was accused of mismanaging an agency tasked with caring for the state's veterans and embellishing his own military service credentials.

Jim Mattis also reassured South Korea that Donald Trump’s administration remains committed to defending its ally in the face of a growing threat from the North.

At least 1,000 Yemeni-run small businesses are a part of many New Yorkers' daily lives, said Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who planned to attend the rally.

Israel's prime minister on Thursday vowed to establish the first new West Bank settlement in over two decades "as soon as possible," promising to make up for the court-ordered demolition of an illegal settler outpost.

San Francisco police say they are suspending their participation in an FBI counterterrorism program that has been accused by civil liberties groups of violating Arab and Muslim communities' First Amendment rights.

Russell Thomas Langford was sentenced Thursday in federal court in North Carolina. The Army Reserve officer pleaded guilty in November to a felony charge for threatening mosque members in order to obstruct their free exercise of religious beliefs.

Donald Trump's spats with U.S. allies as close as Mexico and as unlikely as Australia are leaving his new secretary of state and others in his Cabinet to clean up a lot of potential damage.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., a Marine combat veteran, sent a letter to Trump asking him to personally review the case and pardon 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, who was sentenced to 19 years at Fort Leavenworth for unpremeditated murder after his platoon shot to death two Afghans while on patrol in 2012.

Nonprofit groups are rejecting federal grant money to combat violent extremism because of what they described as President Donald Trump's actions against the Muslim and Arab community.

An Iranian man turned away from Los Angeles International Airport under President Donald Trump's executive order barring people from seven Muslim-majority nations has arrived back in the U.S. under a federal judge's order.

Air Force Col. Charles McGee broke the color barrier as a Tuskegee Airman flying a red-tailed P-51 Mustang in defense of U.S. bombers in World War II. He recorded 136 combat missions in Europe, 100 in Korea and 173 in Vietnam — the highest three-war total in the Air Force.

The United States is prepared to defend access to waters off the coast of Yemen where a Saudi frigate was attacked earlier this week, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Thursday.