Новости за 17.05.2017

Compressed tabletop-sized saucers of trash have been found on Outer Banks beaches. The garbage has drawn attention and photos have circulated on social media. Some recognized what they were and reported them to the Navy.

South Korea urged the North to pick up the phone, saying it’s time for the rivals to reopen communication channels that have been suspended for more than a year amid rising tensions.

U.S. Army Europe will be making use of its prepositioned equipment to allow Fort Carson-based 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, to participate in live-fire exercises at Grafenwoehr Training Area this month.

"Any of us that know Devin know that the sacrifice he made, he would make it again if he had to," his mother said. "I won't make him out to be a saint, but I can say that his last deed was a good one. And that's something that we can be proud of."

President Donald Trump faced fallout Wednesday over revelations that he personally appealed to now-fired FBI Director James Comey to abandon the bureau's investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, allegations based on notes Comey wrote after the meeting.

How well do you remember “Prometheus”? Do the Engineers ring a bell? How about the synthetic, David? Do you know who survived?

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina collapsed during a Washington, D.C., race Wednesday morning and has been taken away by ambulance.

Russia President Vladimir Putin offered Wednesday to turn over to Congress records of President Donald Trump's discussions with Russian diplomats in which Trump is said to have disclosed classified information.

Chelsea Manning, the transgender soldier convicted of giving classified government materials to WikiLeaks, will participate in a documentary about her.

North Koreans remember very well what most Americans have forgotten: that the Korean War was a brutal one.

DNA testing on a bone found in waters where a sunken ferry was recently raised has identified one of the nine missing passengers from the 2014 disaster that killed more than 300 people, South Korean officials said Wednesday.

The intelligence behind plans to broaden a U.S. ban on in-flight laptops and tablets to include planes from Europe took center stage on Wednesday as American and European officials met to discuss the looming decision.

The U.S. Army said Pvt. Chelsea Manning has been released from a Kansas military prison after serving seven years of her 35-year sentence for leaking classified government materials to WikiLeaks.

Members of the 610th Quartermaster unit are deployed at the Virgin Islands National Park dock area near Red Hook turning seawater into drinking water.

The top American military officer in the Pacific said Wednesday that North Korea's recent military actions are "a recipe for a disaster" and warned against a sense of complacency in the face of increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The failure to keep EternalBlue out of the hands of criminals and other adversaries casts the NSA's decisions in a harsh new light, prompting critics to question anew whether the agency can be trusted to develop and protect such potent hacking tools.

It didn’t have a standout centerpiece player as in the past three seasons, but that didn’t stop American School In Japan from winning its fourth straight Far East title and sending longtime coach John Seevers into retirement a champion.

While Abu Sayyaf has been contained in the southern Philippines, offers no services to locals and follows no “meaningful ideology,” it has nevertheless been making a comeback since 2014.

“The M4 rifle is a terribly flawed weapon,” retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales said bluntly, describing the central issue of the reliability of the M4, the descendant to the M16 rifle that he carried in Vietnam.

While Abu Sayyaf has been contained in the southern Philippines, offers no services to locals and follows no “meaningful ideology,” it has nevertheless been making a comeback since 2014.

For 14 hours, the plebes crawled, pulled, ran, dove and climbed their way through the Sea Trials on Tuesday — an annual Naval Academy tradition where the freshmen compete in intense physical and mental obstacles.

America needs more warships -- and must build them faster -- to keep up with other countries that are spending heavily on maritime prowess, according to the U.S. Navy's chief of operations.

Compressed saucers of trash about 20 inches in diameter have washed ashore in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. The disks are consistent with those made on Navy ships to compress plastic waste for easy storage — but the ships are not supposed to dump plastic into the ocean.

A South Texas company has finished dismantling one former U.S. aircraft carrier and is about to take delivery of another at the Port of Brownsville.

In the weeks before Trump took office, Obama administration officials were so concerned by the Trump transition team's handling of classified documents that they moved swiftly to exert more control over the sensitive materials, according to two former U.S. officials.