Новости за 06.07.2017

Veterans Affairs officials unveiled a case Wednesday containing the uniform, dog tags and other possessions of Army Pfc. Floyd K. Lindstrom – the city's sole Medal of Honor recipient – at the clinic that bears his name.

A year later, Dallas officers are still grieving, but scores of them have received or are on track to receive specialized training in "mindfulness" and other stress-management techniques that aim to teach police how to better understand and control their emotions, both on and off the job.

Charles and Cynthia Lewellen, the parents of 27-year-old Staff Sgt. Matthew C. Lewellen of Kirksville, Missouri, attended court hearings this week and said they'll stay on in Jordan until the verdict.

From now through the end of the year, the Dowagiac Area History Museum’s newest exhibit, “Battle Tested: Wartime Stories of Cass County,” will tell the stories of Cass County men and women who served their country in the past century.

The head of the team charged with determining responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria appealed to governments on Thursday to stop exerting political pressure on investigators.

Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts was returning to normal operations after portions were evacuated Thursday morning because security forces detected some potentially explosive material during a routine inspection of a moving truck.

The U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition is delivering 100 expeditionary police stations to Iraqi forces in regions of that country recently liberated from ISIS to help local police quickly re-establish authority, a coalition general said Thursday.

Veterans’ online exchange shopping, currently in beta testing, is set to open for millions of honorably discharged veterans on Veterans Day, Nov. 11.

German police clashed with violent protesters Thursday in Hamburg a day ahead of the Group of 20 summit, using water cannons, pepper spray and batons to disperse marchers after some attacked them with bottles and other objects.

The funeral for Petty Officer 2nd Class Noe Hernandez was held Thursday in Mercedes. Burial followed in nearby Weslaco. The 26-year-old was one of seven sailors killed aboard the USS Fitzgerald when the naval destroyer was struck on June 17 by a Philippine-flagged container ship.

Colombia is pushing ahead with plans to salvage one of the hemisphere’s richest and most legendary shipwrecks — even as a U.S. company insists that it deserves a share of the treasure that went down with the San Jose galleon three centuries ago.

Sitting in the middle of Portland Harbor, Fort Gorges is completely open to the public. There are few safety rails in the 19th century military installation. It has no front door and the fort is never closed. Visitors, who must come by private boat, are free to roam. Nothing is off limits. It's been this way since the federal government gave it to the city in 1960. But that's changing.

Navy leaders have backed off a commander's claim that a midshipman fabricated a sexual assault but ruled the victim will nonetheless be expelled for drinking underage before the molestation occurred.

Lowrider historian Denise Sandoval says the eye-popping, airbrushed paintings, plush interiors and chrome-plated wheels and engines that have come to define them have quietly fomented something more — a new genre of contemporary art.

A Fourth of July announcement by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke at the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland contained good news for residents working to restore the Battle of Fort Anne site on Battle Hill.

“I do not believe this capability brings us closer to war,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters Thursday at the Pentagon. “Diplomacy has not failed. It is our self-restraint that has prevented war … Our self-restraint holds.”

The federal government and Sikorsky have signed a five-year, $3.8 billion contract for 257 Black Hawk helicopters to be delivered to the U.S. Army and overseas military customers.

Workers at a construction site dug up what first appeared to be an unexploded World War II-era bomb but turned out to be a time capsule from a nightclub that helped launch Madonna's career.

The U.S., India and Japan are gearing up for trilateral Malabar naval drills next week amid reports of increased Chinese activity in the Indian Ocean.

The U.S. Army and its NATO allies are working hard to upgrade one of the Ukrainian army’s aging training bases to give its troops a more realistic sense of a modern battlefield.

Portions of Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts have been evacuated due to concerns about a truck. Security forces became concerned following a routine vehicle inspection at a gate leading to the facility.

The European Parliament has advised the European Union to freeze accession talks with Turkey amid growing concerns over the country's human rights and democracy. Turkey rejected Thursday's move, calling it an attempt to "sabotage" relations with the EU.

For author Mark Bowden's book, "Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War In Vietnam," Bowden interviewed more than 100 men and women from both sides of the fighting.

Russ Jackson, head of counterterrorism policing for northwest England, said police may make more arrests in the investigation into the attack.

Iraqi commanders say female Islamic State militants are firing on their forces and using children as human shields as the extremist group defends its last sliver of Mosul's Old City.