Новости за 01.03.2017

Airman 1st Class Mia Donte T. Knox White pleaded guilty to charges in connection with the use of other airmen’s personal information in a failed attempt to receive bank loans, testimony shows.

A federal judge on Wednesday found there's enough evidence to try Spencer Wayne Allen, a day after fires were set at a Navy and Marine Corps recruiting center, a federal courthouse and a Coast Guard office.

Mystery shrouds the rogue flight of an Army unmanned surveillance aircraft that was launched from southern Arizona on Jan. 31, flew hundreds of miles independent from human control and was found Feb. 9, broken apart in a tree outside Denver.

Trump delivered a heartfelt appreciation for the ultimate sacrifice made by thousands since 9/11. Rise with him in saluting Carryn Owens and all other Gold Star families. Don’t detract from the moment.

Speaking to House and Senate veterans’ affairs committees, the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars on Wednesday warned against the Department of Veterans Affairs excessively outsourcing medical treatment to the private sector.

Families seeking on-base child care in the Kaiserslautern area — home to the largest U.S. military community overseas — soon may feel the pinch of the federal civilian hiring freeze.

Beijing sees the the U.S.-developed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system as part of a U.S. strategy to contain China. And as THAAD’s deployment date draws near, its denunciations have reached fever pitch.

"We started talking and I found out we were both military," Powerhouse owner Matt Catalagno said. John Starner said, 'I don't know how much I can do, or if I'm even ready.' "And I said, 'Us Marines, we don't let each other fall behind.'"

The challenge is applying pressure for positive change.

The burden falls on all of us to read news items critically before we share them — no matter what our political persuasion or how pure our intentions.

Russian and Syrian regime warplanes bombed U.S.-backed militia fighters in small villages near al-Bab, a northern Syrian city recently recaptured from the Islamic State group, the top U.S. commander in Iraq and Syria said Wednesday.

A rocket carrying a classified U.S. satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from California.

Yankees heading to the Outer Banks this summer are in for an extra dollop of Dixie as they near the Chesapeake Expressway toll plaza: an 8-foot-by-8-foot Confederate battle flag, flying atop a 35-foot pole.

In his first address to Congress, President Donald Trump on Tuesday touted his plans to build up the military with more spending, a promise he has pursued since his campaign.

Gov. Mark Dayton wants to enable undocumented immigrants to get Minnesota driver’s licenses and he wants the legislature’s Real ID bill to help make that happen, he told the Pioneer Press on Tuesday.

The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Albuquerque SSN 706 was officially decommissioned at a ceremony at Keyport Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash. Albuquerque has been at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to begin inactivation and decommissioning since October 2015.

Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke won Senate confirmation Wednesday as President Donald Trump's Interior secretary, giving him responsibility for overseeing the nation's 400 million acres of public land, mostly in the West.

A century-old statue of a Confederate soldier that stands outside a Maryland courthouse will be moved to private property.

Suicide bombers struck Afghan security forces in separate attacks in the capital on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, officials said.

The true test will be how fast Trump and his team adjust and whether they will learn the right lessons from this baptism by fire.

A U.N. panel said Wednesday the evacuation of eastern Aleppo, after months of siege and aerial bombing by Russian and Syrian forces, was one of many war crimes committed by those fighting for control of Syria's largest city.

But this was, by far, the most presidential we have seen him.

Hundreds of U.S. forces are rehearsing a migrant crisis this week at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The exercise — which has had troops building a tent city and overwhelmed some guest housing facilities for weeks — runs through March 3.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., the Judiciary Committee chairman, called the resolution "unnecessary, premature and not the best way for this committee or the House to conduct oversight." He said, however, that he would urge federal authorities to continue their probe.

An American ex-CIA agent won a last-minute reprieve from a Lisbon court Wednesday and will no longer be extradited from Portugal to Italy, where a court convicted her of taking part in the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric.