Новости за 10.05.2017

A Senate hearing regarding the future of the Veterans Choice Program was postponed Wednesday after Senate Democrats invoked a rule to prevent committees from meeting – a decision made in protest of the firing of FBI Director James Comey.

The ship made famous in the book and subsequent film "The Perfect Storm" has been intentionally sunk off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts so it can become part of an artificial reef.

The collapse of a tunnel containing radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear weapons complex underscored what critics have long been saying: that the toxic remnants of the Cold War are being stored in haphazard and unsafe conditions, and time is running out to deal with the problem.

Ah, the siren song of John Denver. Who among us can resist it? Certainly, not the crew of the Covenant, a vessel powered by a golden sail cruising through space with 2,000 “colonists” in hyper sleep and years to go until they reach their destination.

The Associated Press has conducted an in-depth review of its operations in Nazi Germany, concluding that the news agency acted as "forthrightly and independently as possible," But handled some situations inadequately. "AP believes it is important to know one's own story — warts and all — and so we have re-examined the period, taking a hard look," the report says.

President Donald Trump and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in private, though both sides cast the session as a sign of ties having improved since the U.S. leader's assessment of them last month as at an "all-time low."

A woman who was shot by officers during a raid by counterterrorism police in London was charged along with her mother Wednesday with preparing acts of terrorism and plotting murder.

Indian Defense Minister Arun Jaitley agreed in Tokyo on Monday to increase military cooperation with Japan, which could potentially complicate U.S. policy in the region.

An Air Force investigation has found of one of two Air Force One jetliners oxygen systems was contaminated, causing $4 million in damage after a mishap at a Boeing repair facility in Texas, the service branch reported.

The Congressional Budget Office is planning to release the week of May 22 an assessment of how the health-care legislation that the House just passed will impact federal spending.

A Fort Drum soldier is a few million dollars richer after finding a winning scratch-off ticket in Watertown. Jesse Vonderhorst, 36, of Vancouver, Wash., scratched the winning ticket at a gas station while filling up his car.

A soldier pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping a young girl several times over the course of a year and a half during which he served as his unit's sexual assault response representative.

Servicemembers who modify their cars in Germany bump up against stringent vehicle regulations and local police who are sticklers for the law. The police show little tolerance for add-ons commonly seen in American muscle and custom cars.

In the wake of the nude photo sharing scandal that rocked the military earlier this year, Marines with substantiated cases of improper photo sharing will face mandatory separation proceedings.

In the days before his firing FBI Director James Comey told U.S. lawmakers he had asked the Justice Department for more resources to pursue the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference in last year's presidential election, three U.S. officials said.

Okinawan officials are working to keep the U.S. military community away from Aha Falls — a spot popular with servicemembers and tourists for hiking and cliff jumping — in the wake of an airman’s tragic death over the weekend.

Missouri senators voted early Wednesday to give residents the option of whether to get a driver's license that complies with a federal identification requirement, which would allow people to board airplanes and enter military bases.

On May 27, Disney hopes to expand the universe of James Cameron's film "Avatar" with its most technically ambitious land to date: Pandora -- the World of Avatar, at Orlando's Walt Disney World.

The remains of an Iowa sailor killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are being returned for burial in Kossuth County, Iowa.

A Marine unit was dispatched to Helmand last month for the first time since 2014. The returning unit has nine months to make a mark. Stars and Stripes spoke with some of the Marines. Here are a few we met.

The German city of Hamburg has unveiled a memorial to Jewish and Roma residents who were killed during the Nazi Holocaust.

The Philippine navy welcomed on Wednesday a second Indonesian-made amphibious landing dock as part of the military's modernization program.

The Czech government has approved a Defense Ministry plan to deploy almost 300 troops in the Baltics as part of NATO forces.

U.S. defense officials said a long-range Patriot missile battery may be deployed to the Baltic region later this year as part of a military exercise. The move, if finalized, would be temporary but signal staunch U.S. backing for Baltic nations concerned about the threat from Russia.

President Donald Trump defended his firing of FBI Director James Comey, asserting in a flurry of tweets Wednesday that Republicans and Democrats "will be thanking me." Trump did not mention any effect the firing might have on the probe into contacts between his 2016 campaign and Russia.