Новости за 09.02.2017

Air Force officials are seeking 2017 nominations for the 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year Award. There are three categories for this award: airman, noncommissioned officer and senior NCO.

A group of military veterans living in Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are crowd-funding their appeal to challenge federal voting laws that deny U.S. citizens living in the territories the ability to vote in presidential elections.

North Korean media perfected the art of “fake news” long before it became a buzzword in Washington. So how can you tell the difference between fact and fiction when it comes to the so-called Hermit Kingdom?

The former U.S. supreme allied commander of NATO said Thursday that Russia has little interest in fighting the Islamic State group and the United States should be wary of partnering with the country in war-torn Syria.

A senior U.S. official says President Donald Trump will reaffirm America's commitment to its security alliance with Japan when the nation's prime minister visits the White House Friday.

Researchers started the first-ever clinical trial of marijuana for treating the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans. The trial will test four potencies of smoked marijuana and their effects to manage PTSD symptoms.

The scholarly journal of the Pentagon's top general published an essay that examines what someone in his position should do if a president ordered the establishment of Muslim internment camps, one day before President Trump signed an executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.

A trial opened Thursday in Las Vegas for six people accused of illegally wielding weapons to block a federal roundup of cattleman and states' rights advocate Cliven Bundy's cows nearly three years ago.

Though dozens are nominated at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, we all know the real showdown is between Beyonce and Adele.

An official who oversaw supplies and logistics at a military facility in Utah is accused of stealing equipment.

The Pentagon said last month the two operations can coexist. The company said it trimmed the size of the project, positioned turbines differently, and conducted extensive modeling with the military's scientists to avoid conflicting with the radar array.

A new study commissioned by the Marine Corps concludes that the new Blended Retirement System (BRS) won’t endanger force retention under any reasonable set of economic and behavioral assumptions.

A colossal panoramic painting depicting the Battle of Atlanta from the American Civil War will be lifted by cranes from the building where it has been housed for nearly a century and then trucked to its new location.

Police in central Germany detained two men they described as known Islamic extremists on Thursday in an investigation of suspected plans for an attack.

Travel reports, which are required to be filed by members of the House within 15 days of returning from a foreign trip, provide the greatest detail so far of Gabbard’s increasingly controversial trips to Syria and Lebanon last month.

Dr. William Gondring would go to Vietnam in January 1965. The Navy lieutenant worked at an antiquated hospital in the Mekong Delta city of Rach Gia. Workdays became an exercise in improvisation.

Air Force trailed New Mexico by five when it missed a shot and fouled Lobos guard Elijah Brown with 4.1 seconds left. The Falcons were defeated 74-67.

A Malaysian ship carrying 2,300 tons of food and medicine to help members of Myanmar's persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority arrived in Yangon on Thursday as rights groups accuse the army of mass killings, rapes and other crimes targeting the ethnic group.

A Russian warplane "accidentally" hit a building on Thursday in northern Syria with Turkish soldiers inside, killing at least three troops and wounding 11, Turkey's military said.

Turkish police seized 24 suicide attack belts and detained four Islamic State group suspects who, officials allege, were planning to carry out a "sensational" attack in Turkey , officials said Thursday. The latest detentions came as CIA chief Mike Pompeo arrived in Turkey to discuss the fight against the extremist group in Syria and Iraq.

The “one in, two out” policy could be an effective way both to enforce that pause and to press agencies to remove regulations that are taking an excessive toll on the economy, on small businesses and on individuals.

Hungary plans to hold migrants in border camps made up of shipping containers while their asylum requests are settled, a top official said Thursday.

Snarky and off-the-mark are not the same as factually inaccurate and certainly not the same as fake news.

A key Minnesota committee narrowly approved a measure Wednesday night to bring the state in line with federal security requirements for its driver’s licenses.

The British defense secretary says he has "no doubt at all" about the U.S. commitment to NATO under President Donald Trump.