Новости за 01.08.2017

A retired fighter pilot says she will seek the Democratic nomination for Congress in Kentucky's 6th District.

Turkey put nearly 500 people on trial Tuesday on charges of leading last year's failed coup, parading dozens of the men into a courthouse as protesters threw stones and shouted "Murderers!"

A band of young veterans proudly made their way from bar to bar on Saturday wearing nothing but their silkies and military gear, waving American flags.

The Trump administration will allow American journalists, Red Cross employees and other humanitarian workers to apply for exemptions to a ban on travel to North Korea that is set to take effect in early September.

Kelly, who has rendered extraordinary service and sacrifice to the nation, just signed up for what may truly be an impossible mission: bringing discipline, order and strategic focus to the chaos that is the Trump White House.

Without a victory somewhere, McConnell, Ryan and Trump won’t have much to show voters in 2018.

U.S. advisers are helping battle-weary Iraqi troops refit as they prepare to liberate the Islamic State’s last stronghold in Iraq.

A 20-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker has been charged with murder in the death of a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in early 2014. The man was also charged with the attempted murder of two more American soldiers wounded in the same ambush.

The former commanding officer of the USS Antietam was “ultimately responsible” for the cruiser running aground and spilling roughly 1,100 gallons of hydraulic fluid into Tokyo Bay in January, a Navy investigation concluded.

Here are my picks of events for the weekend of Aug. 5-6.

A former U.S. diplomat has for the second time been found liable for enslaving and sexually trafficking a housekeeper while posted at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.

The European Union says 23 cities are competing to host the bloc's medicines and banking agencies, which are based in Britain but must move before the country leaves the EU in 2019.

The remains of a World War II pilot from New York City have been identified more than 70 years after he was killed in combat.

German authorities have launched a six-month test of automatic facial recognition technology at a Berlin railway station, which the country's top security official says could be used to improve security in the future.

The lower house of Jordan's parliament on Tuesday scrapped a provision in the kingdom's penal code that allowed a rapist to escape punishment if he married his victim.

A U.S. Black Hawk helicopter made a hard landing in eastern Afghanistan early Tuesday morning due to a mechanical problem, NATO said in a statement.

Raised voices could be heard through the thick door to the Oval Office as John Kelly — then secretary of Homeland Security — offered some tough talk to President Donald Trump.

The handsome, taciturn Sam Shepard was shaped by the frontier life he mourned and critiqued and by the revolutionary changes of the post-World War II era that helped upend it.

Amazon.com is under federal investigation for possibly violating U.S. sanctions on Iran, the online giant said Friday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Coin experts say they have found the first silver piece minted by the United States — one likely held by the most en vogue of Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton.

President Donald Trump's threat to stop billions of dollars in government payments to insurers and force the collapse of "Obamacare" could put the government in a tricky legal situation.

Authorities say children are being taken to Pakistani madrassas to educate a new generation in the ways of the Taliban, with the intention of returning them to Afghanistan to enforce the same rigid interpretation of Islam practiced by the radical religious movement until its ouster by U.S.-led coalition forces in 2001.

A U.S. watchdog says unprecedented security restrictions are making it difficult to monitor Afghanistan projects that are costing hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars.

The speech follows a parade Sunday during which Xi declared the military has the "confidence and capability" to ensure China's sovereignty, security and national interests.

The USS Nimitz officially joined the fight against the Islamic State Monday when it launched its first round of strikes against targets from the Arabian Gulf.