Новости за 07.09.2017

With the storm barreling toward the tip of Florida for perhaps a catastrophic blow this weekend, normally quick trips turned into daylong journeys on crowded highways amid a constant search for gasoline and lodging. Airline seats out of Florida were in short supply as well.

Nick Rasmussen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said countering Islamic extremism globally is a nearly impossible task. The U.S. needs to be more hands-on at home and do a better job sharing threat information with local officials, he said.

The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly backed a $15.3 billion aid package for victims of Harvey, nearly doubling President Donald Trump's emergency request, and adding a deal between Trump and Democrats to increase America's borrowing authority and fund the government into December.

Here’s a novel way to enjoy autumn in New England: While the trees are dropping their leaves, you can be shedding some pounds.

Warships and military planes were dispatched with food, water and troops after the fearsome Category 5 storm smashed homes, schools and roads, laying waste to some of the world's most beautiful and exclusive tourist destinations.

Six people aboard an Air Force Reserve bus were hurt when a semitrailer collided with the bus on Interstate 94 in central Minnesota on Thursday.

"I used to want to save the world, to end war and bring peace to mankind. But then I glimpsed the darkness that lives within their light. I learned that inside every one of them, there will always be both.”

Retired Lt. Col. Richard E. "Dick" Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders of World War II celebrated his 102nd birthday on Thursday.

I recently road-tested this idea with such encouraging results that I'm itching to do it again.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

Lead researcher Sue Sisley has screened thousands of veterans, yet enrolled only 26 who meet the eligibility criteria – prompting concern the study’s parameters must change. If that happens, the study could be delayed, she said.

The U.S. Navy prepared seven warships including an aircraft carrier, and the National Guard readied nearly 20,000 servicemembers to respond to areas in Hurricane Irma’s path as the storm reached Cuba on Friday en route to Florida, defense officials said.

Two Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II attack jets crashed Wednesday during a training flight over a Nevada military range. The pilots of both planes ejected safely and were being evaluated Thursday.

Croatian authorities on Thursday removed a plaque bearing a salute used by the country's pro-Nazi regime during World War II that was placed last year near the site of a notorious wartime concentration camp.

Senate Republicans have almost doubled the size of the disaster relief package for Harvey to more than $15 billion, a first installment to help communities in Texas rebuild from the storm — and stock reserves for looming damage from Hurricane Irma.

Coast Guard divers jumped off the pier at Coast Guard Base Honolulu on Wednesday wearing nearly 32-pound steel “hard hats” connected to air lines in training dives to prepare for an annual inspection next week.

It’s important to take time to stop and smell the roses every once in a while, as the old adage suggests, and Okinawa’s Southeast Botanical Gardens offer the perfect opportunity.

Hurricane Irma is not the only show in town. Two other menacing hurricanes, Jose and Katia, were swirling in the Atlantic Ocean basin and forecast to strengthen and impact land areas late Friday into the weekend.

President Donald Trump plans to meet Thursday with the leader of Kuwait, a staunch American ally trying to mediate a festering diplomatic crisis involving Qatar and its Arab neighbors that could have implications for the U.S. military presence in the region.

Israeli warplanes struck a military position near the Mediterranean coast in western Syria Thursday, killing two soldiers, the Syrian army said, in a stronghold of President Bashar Assad that is also heavily protected by the Russians and Iranians.

A Senate Democrat says sexual assault within the U.S. armed forces remains pervasive. That’s despite numerous changes to the military justice code ordered by Congress in the last five years.

Thirteen Fort Hood soldiers face solicitation of prostitution charges after they were arrested during a two-day sting operation in locations near the Army post in central Texas, local law enforcement and Army officials said.

Transgender personnel can expect a “fistfight” in federal court as they seek to reverse a ban, arguing it violates their constitutional rights to due process and equal justice, said attorney Eugene R. Fidell, who has decades of experience with military personnel legal issues and teaches military law at Yale Law School.

Hurricane Irma lashed Puerto Rico with heavy rain and powerful winds late Wednesday, leaving nearly 900,000 people without power as authorities struggled to get aid to small Caribbean islands already devastated by the historic storm.

German authorities say they have safely disposed of toxic chemicals that were found last week in Lake Penzenreuth and that are believed to have belonged to the U.S. Army.