Новости за 04.04.2017

One of Washington’s native sons returned home Monday to take charge of one of the nation’s “go-to” military commands.

A key House of Representatives subcommittee will probe Wednesday whether thousands of Vietnam War sailors who say they were exposed to Agent Orange can qualify for federal benefits — as the list of congressional supporters continues to grow significantly.

A navy base in Virginia was briefly placed on lock down while officials investigated what appears to be a false report of shots fired.

A F-16C fighter jet made an emergency landing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base this morning because of a hydraulic leak, according to a base spokesman.

Hours after a deadly bombing in St. Petersburg, members of the special services knocked on the door of a house in Kyrgyzstan's city of Osh, more than 2,000 miles away.

Veronica Castro had dreaded Tuesday, when she was scheduled to check-in with immigration officials. The undocumented immigrant didn't know if she would deported to Mexico or be allowed to return home with her husband, a disabled veteran, and their four children.

The Veterans Crisis Line is showing signs of improvement, but its leaders shouldn’t be so quick to say its longstanding problems are completely fixed, some lawmakers, internal watchdogs and veterans organizations said Tuesday.

Unmasking does occur, but it is typically done by intelligence or law-enforcement officials engaged in anti-terror or espionage investigations. Ms. Rice would have had no obvious need to unmask Trump campaign officials other than political curiosity.

Confronted by one of his first foreign crises, President Donald Trump on Tuesday split the blame for Syria's worst chemical weapons attack in years between its Russian-backed leader and former President Barack Obama, as the new American administration struggled to explain what it might do in response.

President Donald Trump blamed former President Barack Obama on Tuesday for "weakness" that he said led to a reprehensible chemical weapons attack by Syria's government, while his secretary of state said Russia and Iran bore moral responsible for the deaths.

The White House said Tuesday that a suspected chemical attack by the Syrian government against civilians Tuesday "cannot be ignored by the civilized world," but it fell short of offering a plan of action.

Air force jets from Israel and Italy have joined Greek planes in a low-altitude flyover in central Athens, as part of an 11-day international military exercise based in southern Greece.

Susan Rice, the top national security adviser to former President Barack Obama, says it is "absolutely false" that she and other Obama administration officials used intelligence reports to spy on Trump associates for political purposes.

The British territory of Gibraltar says a Spanish navy patrol ship has entered its waters amid the simmering tensions between Spain and Britain over Gibraltar's future after Brexit.

On Monday, Southern California Edison turned over an oversized skeleton key to Habitat for Humanity, which has selected the project’s first residents. About a week from now, a former National Guard sergeant who served in Afghanistan will close escrow on the first of seven ABC Green Homes in the works.

An aircraft manufacturer that intends to build two-seat, amphibious planes designed in Finland for the North American market is poised to become the first company to build planes at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station, officials said Tuesday.

We are certain to see a succession of confrontations between China and the United States in the years ahead. What is in doubt is whether the leaders of these two great powers can manage these confrontations without escalating them to war. For now, that’s up to Trump and Xi.

Curbs on liberty and privacy in the name of security won’t stop terrorism.

The lack of resistance to being manhandled in the name of security is a slippery slope, folks. And we’re sliding down it fast.

The White House called on the media Monday to show more zeal in investigating allegations that Obama administration officials abused their access to intelligence to seek out and disclose potentially damaging information about Donald Trump's campaign and transition.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos traveled to a primary school on Fort Bragg on Monday, where she read to a small group of children and listened to academic challenges for military children during a private discussion with parents and teachers.

Nigeria's government and military are not doing enough to ensure the release of 195 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls held by Boko Haram Islamic extremists for nearly three years, the Bring Back Our Girls group said Tuesday.

The United Nations says around 300,000 people have been displaced by the U.S.-backed Iraqi operation to drive the Islamic State from Mosul, the country's second largest city.

Soldiers may one day be equipped with a mechanical third arm to lessen the burden of heavy weapons and free their hands for other tasks.

The Defense Commissary Agency has stopped shipments of fresh poultry products to South Korea after a March 5 outbreak of avian influenza was traced to a commercial farm in Tennessee.