Новости за 04.08.2017

Defensive lineman Deondrae Williams committed to Navy on July 27. A two-star recruit according to Rivals, Williams also had offers from Troy, Richmond and The Citadel.

A Plano businessman pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to smuggling radiation-protected microchips used in space exploration to China and Russia, the U.S. attorney's office said.

A proposed new U.N. sanctions resolution would ban North Korea from exporting coal, iron, lead and seafood worth a total of about $1 billion, a major cut to its export earnings, which totaled only $3 billion last year, a Security Council diplomat said Friday.

In legal arguments this week, the USS Cole case judge and prosecutor sparred over how to handle evidence taken after torture or other cruel treatment.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday he's switching parties to join Republicans as President Donald Trump visited the increasingly conservative state.

A federal judge has dismissed a major lawsuit against a defense contractor by veterans and their family members over burn pit operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that plaintiffs said caused them chronic and sometimes deadly respiratory diseases and cancer.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions pledged on Friday to rein in government leaks that he said undermine American security, taking an aggressive public stand after being called weak on the matter by President Donald Trump.

A contingent of U.S. troops are involved in a Yemeni operation to push al-Qaida militants from one of their key strongholds in central Yemen, the Pentagon said Friday.

The U.S. Army’s 5th Signal Command cased its colors in a ceremony at Clay Kaserne in Wiesbaden on Friday, marking the end of its 43 years as the leading military signals unit in Europe.

Martin Shkreli, the former pharmaceutical CEO notorious for a price-gouging scandal and for his snide "Pharma Bro" persona on social media, was convicted Friday on federal charges he deceived investors in a pair of failed hedge funds.

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has increased a reward from $500 to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest of those involved in a spate of bomb threats called in to Navy bases in Hampton Roads earlier this week.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday threw out the first-degree murder conviction of a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard sentenced to life in prison in the killings of 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad traffic circle in 2007.

Whatever fear 1st Lt. Bennis M. Blue may have had when she joined the 82nd Airborne Division was quickly set aside shortly after she arrived to her unit in 1978.

Brig. Gen. Frederick R. Maiocco Jr. took command of the 7th Mission Support Command from outgoing commander Brig. Gen. Steven Ainsworth on Friday.

U.N. human rights investigators warned Friday of ethnic cleansing in central Congo, documenting the recent killings of more than 250 people, including 62 children, in violence with "no good guys and bad guys."

Since 2012, the skeleton-staffed Czech Embassy in embattled Damascus has been acting as a protecting power for the mighty United States, the same way that Sweden does in North Korea and Switzerland in Iran.

At least two people were killed in an apparent car bomb blast in Somalia's capital Friday evening, just hours after the U.S. military confirmed that a recent airstrike had killed a high-level al-Shabab militant commander.

WWII veteran Thomas Nicholson didn't talk about the time he made repeated trips under enemy fire to repair the communications line between his forward observation post and his unit's mortar position. He didn't talk about how his division helped liberate thousands of emaciated prisoners at Dachau. But Nicholson's grandson, Dave Roberts, believes these actions need to be memorialized.

U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington invited fellow Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mac Thornberry, to Abilene for an August recess visit.

The Senate on Thursday cleared the way for a Global War on Terrorism memorial in Washington – unanimously passing the first bill in recent history approving a national war memorial before the fighting is over.

Jerilyn Heise never met her father — up until two months ago. It started with an unexpected phone call from the Marine Corps to schedule a visit at her home in Minden.

Two years ago, Brandon Coleman was placed on paid leave from his job with the Department of Veterans Affairs as an addiction therapist after he reported poor care for mental-health patients at the Phoenix VA hospital — the epicenter of the agency’s wait-time scandal.

Tokyo police staged an anti-terrorism drill at a U.S. government hotel Thursday in central Tokyo, a Tokyo Metropolitan Police spokesman said.

John Fasulo's boyhood curiosity about fireworks formed the backbone of a decades-long Marine Corps career that took him to the frozen forests of Korea and the sweltering jungles of Vietnam. Now, "Dr. Demo" is retiring ... again.

One day after suspending its search for the missing sailor, the Navy has identified the USS Stethem crew member who was reported overboard from the guided-missile destroyer as Lt. Steven D. Hopkins.