Новости за 29.05.2017

As a sociologist, I teach college students about the power of groups on individual behavior, and the role of authority figures in silencing individual dissent. As a parent, I see it firsthand.

One hundred years ago this month, a University of Pennsylvania professor enlisted in the American Expeditionary Forces to serve during the First World War. He would not return.

Manchester was, in some ways, like Newtown. Because children raise the stakes and deepen the horror.

A 350-ship fleet is key for both national security and international stability.

Each family has a different plan for Memorial Day, but all of them will be remembering their lost loved one.

For recruiters of four military branches — Marines, Navy, Air Force and Army — this is the busy season, with school ending and many graduates unsure about their career paths.

Berlin remains committed to strong trans-Atlantic relations, but Chancellor Angela Merkel's suggestion after meetings with President Donald Trump that Europe can no longer entirely rely on the U.S. "speaks for itself," her spokesman said Monday.

Poll results released Monday show that about half of Japan's population supports a constitutional revision that would clarify the legality of the country's military, a new approach Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is proposing as his party struggles to gain public support for a change.

The trial against 23 army officers who allegedly planned the Istanbul stage of last summer's failed military coup has opened in the outskirts of the city.

Iraq's fight to retake Mosul from the Islamic State group has been the largest and the longest operation against the extremists in the nearly three years since they overran a third of the country. Here's a look at what makes the remaining battle so difficult.

Travelers with airlines in the British Airways group faced a third day of delays and cancellations, mainly on short-haul routes and in smaller numbers than over the weekend, when the company suffered a colossal IT failure.

Federal authorities have launched dozens of new criminal investigations into possible opioid and other drug theft by employees at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, a sign the problem isn't going away despite new prevention efforts.

The number of newly opened criminal probes is on track to match or surpass the figure in the previous year. Here are some recently prosecuted cases.

The combat veterans of Massachusetts Fallen Heroes have joined other veterans groups to advocate for those who came home alive, pushing new laws to strengthen hiring preferences for government jobs.

Congressional Democrats on Sunday demanded to hear directly from top White House adviser Jared Kushner over allegations of proposed secret back-channel communications with Russia, saying the security clearance of President Donald Trump's son-in-law may need to be revoked.

When President Donald Trump's top foreign policy advisers gathered recently at the White House to discuss plans to revamp the administration's Afghanistan strategy, the makeup of those in the room was indicative of a significant turn in U.S. foreign policy.

Moved by videos of soldiers surprising family members by returning home early, Savannah Cagle planned to do the same this Memorial Day weekend.

Australia announced on Monday it would send an additional 30 military advisers to train Afghan troops and expected other countries to increase their contributions to the restive Central Asian country.

Hundreds of volunteers braved intermittent downpours Sunday to place 160,000 roses on graves at Arlington National Cemetery.

North Korea fired a short-range missile into sea off the divided peninsula’s east coast on Monday, prompting President Donald Trump to accuse Pyongyang of disrespecting China.

North Korea fired a short-range missile that crashed in the sea off the divided peninsula’s east coast on Monday, a day after the U.S. defense secretary warned a conflict with the communist state would be “catastrophic.”

North Korea fired a missile that flew about 280 miles before apparently crashing in Japanese waters on Monday, officials said.

A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife and her family over his children was arrested Sunday in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead, including his mother-in-law and a sheriff's deputy.