Новости за 13.06.2017

Three years after scandal rocked the Department of Veterans Affairs, a bill creating more repercussions and a quicker firing process for poor-performing VA employees will go to the president’s desk.

Couples involved in the suits say both names are needed on a birth certificate so that either parent can fulfill obligations like school enrollment or medical decisions. There's also a worry military benefits might not extend to children equally.

Staff Sgt. Lesli Pape said Monday's Pride event was one of 11 observances throughout the year to promote acceptance of and equal opportunity for people from a variety of ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin agrees with President Donald Trump that there could be such a thing as a "good" government shutdown.

Demetrius Shipp Jr. never acted before playing Tupac Shakur in “All Eyez on Me.” But his connections to the rapper, and to acting, go back to his childhood.

A former U.S. Army officer has been chosen as the 2018 Georgia Teacher of the Year.

The Senate on Tuesday narrowly turned back a bipartisan bid to rebuke Saudi Arabia and reject President Donald Trump's plan to sell the kingdom more than $500 million in precision-guided munitions, sparing the new Republican administration an embarrassing defeat.

A U.S. Coast Guard ship that first set out to sea during the Spanish-American War and sank off the coast of Southern California 100 years ago won't be moved anytime soon, officials said Tuesday.

The president’s friends are now pressing the argument that Mueller must go. If so, this crippling scandal could veer into a much more dangerous phase of presidential lawlessness.

The U.S. relationship with Russia is at an all-time low and deteriorating further, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday, yet he cautioned against taking steps that might close off promising avenues of communication between the two former Cold War foes.

An American college student who was released from a North Korean prison is finally home but in a coma and undergoing treatment at an Ohio hospital where he was taken shortly after arriving on U.S. soil.

An American college student whose parents say he has been in a coma while serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea was released and returned to the United States Tuesday as the Trump administration revealed a rare exchange with the reclusive country.

Otto Warmbier, an American college student serving a 15-year prison term in North Korea for alleged anti-state acts, was released and medically evacuated from the reclusive country Tuesday and has been in a coma for months, his parents said.

A self-proclaimed neo-Nazi arrested after agents found bomb-making materials in his Florida apartment while investigating the slayings of his two roommates planned to use the explosives to harm civilians, nuclear facilities and synagogues, federal prosecutors argued in court documents filed Monday.

The U.S. military has more than doubled the size of the team that investigates reports of civilian casualties in strikes by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria.

The propeller plane pitched into a dive over a city. The pilot released a bomb as the plane leveled off, and the ordnance ripped into an urban neighborhood, spraying debris over several buildings.

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently allocated $100,000 for “Telling War,” a community-oriented project which aims to help veterans communicate their war experiences and reconnect with civilians at home.

A manhunt is under way for Donnie Russell Rowe, 43, and Ricky Dubose, 24. The escaped inmates are accused of killing two guards on a Georgia prison bus Tuesday morning.

The bodies of Sgt. Eric M. Houck, Sgt. William M. Bays and Cpl. Dillon C. Baldridge were returned to the United States late Monday. The sacred homecoming ceremony was “very emotional” and “very real,” Houck’s wife Samantha said Tuesday morning.

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said Tuesday that the White House would deliver its revised strategy for Afghanistan by mid-July, amid growing frustrations on Capitol Hill that the country’s security is worsening with no plan of action in sight.

Russia's cyberattack on the U.S. electoral system before Donald Trump's election was far more widespread than has been publicly revealed, including incursions into voter databases and software systems in almost twice as many states as previously reported.

Tina Demers says she received no prior warning. So when her West End house began shuddering late Friday night and her neighbor's plastic lawn furniture flew about the yard and the thunderous dark aircraft crept over the treetops, there was a moment of terror.

The Philippine government learned days in advance of a plan by Muslim militants aligned with the Islamic State group to lay siege to a southern city, and staged an army raid on a militant hideout that prevented a bigger and deadlier attack, officials said Tuesday.

Jabreeh Davis-Martin, 23 of South Bend, was charged with murder in connection to the death of 27-year-old Jodie Henderson. Davis-Martin allegedly killed the man because Henderson told him he loved him.

The fights of the future will not look like the ones of today, Fort Drum’s commander said, and soldiers of today will have to train differently to prepare for them.