Новости за 12.08.2017

Refugees reflect on the moral quandaries posed by mass migration for a nation rebuilt after the Holocaust on a set of bedrock principles that includes responsibility to the Jewish people.

A national food group is suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, alleging it is allowing commercial shellfish aquaculture to expand in Washington state without adequate environmental scrutiny.

Centuries-old ties that bind families to tribes and tribes to ruling sheikhs underpin the Arabian Peninsula, but that kinship is now under strain. The crisis has also made what was once illegal now legal, and vice-versa.

If an attack warning is issued, Guam residents should take cover quickly — in a concrete structure, preferably underground — and stay there until instructed otherwise, according to a fact sheet titled "Preparing for an Imminent Missile Threat."

The "Son of Sam" killer who terrorized New York 40 years ago says he thought he was doing something "to appease the devil."

Nick Toth came to Air Force as prepared as any new coach could possibly expect to be. Still, with all that preparation, he has found surprises in his transition after joining Air Force’s staff as a defensive assistant coaching outside linebackers.

The ship returned from its last deployment on Aug. 14, 2016. In February, sailors and workers began the largest work package for a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in a six-month period, requiring more than 2.8 million man-hours of work.

On Friday morning, World War II veteran Bob Goolsby, 95, and his wife, Jewell, 93, sat on their porch watching about 60 community volunteers work on exterior home improvement projects as part of a partnership between the city’s veterans service office, Home Depot, the Austin Police Department’s Explorers Program and Honor Flight Austin.

Marine Sgt. Dietrich Schmieman, a member of the Special Operations Command, died with 14 other Marines and a Navy sailor when their KC-130 cargo plane crashed in a Mississippi soybean field enroute to Yuma, Ariz.

In the fall of 2016, a series of U.S. diplomats began suffering unexplained losses of hearing, according to officials with knowledge of the case. Some of the diplomats' symptoms were so severe that they were forced to cancel their tours early and return to the United States, the officials said.

The two men worked for Singapore-based Glenn Defense Marine Asia. Prosecutors said the company and its CEO, nicknamed "Fat Leonard," bribed Navy officials with cash, prostitutes and gifts to obtain classified information.

The chase started after two agents on routine patrol ran the license plate of the GMC Envoy and were alerted that the vehicle was associated with a possibly armed man suspected of murder and human smuggling, the agency said in a statement.

The military posture has effectively remained the same even as Trump said Friday that he hopes North Korean officials "fully understand the gravity of what I said" and that "those words are very, very easy to understand."

Judge Col. Peter Rubin’s three-page, sealed decision set the stage for the second time in a row that the Pentagon will pull the plug on open court, closed-circuit television feeds to secure viewing sites at Fort Meade, Md., and elsewhere.

Trump had said he "greatly" appreciated Putin's help cutting down the State Department's payroll. At the time, it was unclear whether he was joking.

Trump has been blasting Maduro's moves to consolidate power, describing him as a "dictator." A military intervention would be an extraordinary escalation in response.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he wouldn't rule out military action against Venezuela in response to the country's descent into political chaos following President Nicolas Maduro's power grab.

The female midshipman voluntarily decided to not continue in a summer course that's required of officers who want to be selected for SEAL training. No other women are in the process required to become a Navy SEAL.

The White House is undergoing a major face-lift while President Donald Trump is out of town.