Новости за 11.03.2017

The innovative Potter’s Lane housing complex on Jackson Street is now home to the first group of homeless military veterans who will occupy studio units built from converted shipping containers.

The tax break is still tracking to become law. Veterans who are fully disabled because of their military service would be exempt from paying property taxes on their homes. This exemption would create a challenge for city and county governments, which in North Carolina are heavily dependent on property taxes to pay for their operations.

Mass-casualty training at Keesler Air Force Base two months ago gave Biloxi firefighters and police the chance to practice responding to a train crash. The first-responders couldn’t know they would soon be responding to an actual train-charter bus crash that killed four people and critically injured eight of the 49 passengers.

Sam Coffman, a former U.S. Army Special Forces Green Beret medic with more than 25 years experience using medicinal plants, will lead a Wilderness First Aid Certification Course for anyone who wants to be more medically self-sufficient.

Dr. Jacob Eisenbach was 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland. He survived a concentration camp, but 100 other members of his immediate and extended family did not.

President Donald Trump on Saturday praised the U.S. Secret Service for doing a "fantastic job" apprehending a "troubled person" who climbed a fence and was approaching a south entrance to the White House while Trump was inside the executive mansion.

The U.S. Secret Service says a person is under arrest after climbing a fence and getting onto the south grounds of the White House.

Wounded soldier Cahin Perez was handed keys to a new home — mortgage-free — on March 6 thanks to a partnership between Wells Fargo and Military Warriors Support Foundation.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is planning to study parts of the Big Island to determine the extent of munitions and explosives remaining from military training on more than 3 square miles near the Kohala Mountains.

Turkey and the Netherlands sharply escalated a dispute between the two NATO allies on Saturday as the Dutch blocked a campaign visit by the Turkish foreign minister, prompting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to call them "fascists."

At age 97, “Papa Ray” Robinson has a unique perspective on black history in America. One of the few surviving “buffalo soldiers” from World War II, Robinson is a grandson of freed slaves who lived to see a black man elected president of the United States. Now he says he’s witnessing another twist in the fabric of American history, a politically charged backlash led by white supremacists.

The pain of Sept. 11, 2001, never goes away for Gina Cayne. When the Boca Raton widow speaks of losing her husband as he worked on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower, tears well in her eyes, her voice strains. “They killed my husband,” she says, accusing Saudi officials of having financed the 9/11 attacks. “All I want is my day in court.”

The Border Patrol's parent agency would exempt many veterans and law enforcement officers from a hiring requirement to take a lie-detector test under a proposal to satisfy President Donald Trump's order to add 5,000 agents, according to a memo released by the agents' union.

Julian Assange, the Australian founder of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, presents a problem for President Donald Trump who is now facing the consequences of a CIA leak, and must decide whether to try to bring Assange to justice.

Linda M. Stone, one of two Georgia women charged this week with federal bank fraud and identity theft charges, forged her mother’s signature to take $119,000 from the bank account of her mother who died in 2009, but who continued to receive her VA benefit checks.

Libyan militias that occupied two key oil terminals have said they intend to take the eastern city of Benghazi and unseat Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, who controls the area.

Murder in Malaysia. Protests in China. And missiles flying toward Japan. All can be traced back to North Korea and show how Kim Jong Un is managing to stir up tensions in the region while trying to provoke a reaction from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Twin blasts Saturday near holy shrines frequented by Shiites in the Syrian capital Damascus killed at least 40 people, most of them Iraqis, according to Syrian and Iraqi officials.

On a rooftop in the Jewish-Arab Tel Aviv neighborhood of Jaffa, a former military technologist and an ex-journalist sit in a transparent bio-dome where their robot is busy learning how to grow food.

If you use prescription painkillers or designer drugs, it’s about to get much tougher for you to join the military.

A day after a court removed her from power over a corruption scandal, ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye maintained her silence on Saturday as her opponents and supporters divided the capital's streets with massive rallies that showed a nation deeply split over its future.

European Union member states have rejected Turkey's demand that its citizens be granted the freedom to relocate and transfer money, services and goods to EU member Cyprus under any deal reunifying the ethnically divided island, the Cypriot president said Saturday.

Turkey and the Netherlands sharply escalated a dispute between the two NATO allies on Saturday as the Dutch withdrew landing permission for the Turkish foreign minister's aircraft, drawing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to call them "fascists."

Clooney was hailed on social media for her forthright call-to-action, though a number of outlets were more interested in her pregnancy. The Sun teased the story with the headline, "Oh baby! George Clooney's wife Amal Clooney shows off her blossoming baby bump in a chic yellow dress as she heads out to New York."

Nawaz Sharif, in a speech at a seminary on Saturday, called on religious scholars to help him dismantle a "narrative" characterized by militants killing thousands of people over the last decade