Новости за 28.09.2017

Despite his track record as the longest-tenured, winningest coach in Navy football history, Ken Niumatalolo wasn't exactly expected to have the Midshipmen barreling toward a 4-0 start to a season that began with whispers of the dreaded word "rebuild."

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that just because Russian government hackers didn't directly scan election systems in some U.S. states, it doesn't mean they weren't looking to break into them.

Police say a woman was saved by a rescue swimmer and the U.S. Coast Guard after she was swept into the water by high surf in Narragansett.

The Pentagon says an American citizen who was fighting with Islamic State militants and surrendered in Syria more than two weeks ago remains in U.S. military custody.

Authorities in Catalonia intend to ensure that a disputed referendum on independence from Spain will take place peacefully on Sunday despite a crackdown on the vote by the national government, the region's interior chief said Thursday.

Ukraine's chief military prosecutor on Thursday ruled out a foreign sabotage plot in a massive fire at an ammunition depot that forced the evacuation of thousands of people.

The 42nd airplane obtained by the Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor, an F-16A Fighting Falcon, was dedicated Wednesday to a former Hawaii commander who made history with the first “MiG” kill using the F-16.

Nearly 26 years lapsed before Casey Solana, a Marine vet and current FBI agent, was able to show his children the medals he was awarded for serving in Operation Desert Storm.

A larger U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs clinic has opened in eastern Idaho that will enable it to serve up to a 1,000 more veterans than before.

The U.S. Coast Guard is overseeing an operation that has turned the waterfront into a spectacle with two big cranes that hoists boats to the surface or out of the marsh and onto a flatbed truck that hauls them to a dump site.

Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing ashore alive in the United States, researchers reported Thursday.

A man training with a Navy special warfare unit was rescued from a tree after a skydiving accident Thursday morning in Suffolk, Virginia.

Mounting tensions between Iraq’s government and the nation’s Kurdistan region after the semi-autonomous northern region voted overwhelmingly this week for independence have distracted fighters from their mission to defeat Islamic State militants, a U.S. military spokesman said Thursday.

Two House Republicans and two Democrats have introduced a bill that would halt U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen on the grounds that Congress has never approved the American role in the war.

A federal grand jury returned an indictment Thursday charging Duane Nishiie and South Korean national Seung-Ju Lee, 50, with conspiracy, bribery, wire fraud, money laundering and lying in connection with the awarding of two contracts that are part of a massive, ongoing U.S. Army relocation project in South Korea.

U.S. Navy veteran Mohammed Jahanfar has traveled overseas four times in the last year to visit his Iranian fiancée, most recently hoping to complete government paperwork that would allow her to come live with him in the United States. He now fears they will be forever separated after President Donald Trump's administration rolled out new restrictions blocking most Iranians from traveling to America.

A Connecticut-bred literature buff, I made a point this summer of traversing New England's Herman Melville Triangle: Mystic Seaport, the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the author's Berkshire farmhouse, Arrowhead.

Members of Congress are sharpening their criticism of Myanmar's crackdown that has forced a half-million Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.

As President Donald Trump waived federal restrictions on foreign ships delivering cargo, House Speaker Paul Ryan said the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster relief account will get a $6.7 billion boost by the end of the week.

The backlash from an independence referendum approved by Iraq's Kurds this week has left the northern Kurdish region increasingly isolated from Baghdad, and the crisis sparked by the vote appears poised to intensify.

The legacy of a long conflict is etched into Muneira's geography. Houses were destroyed - by Islamic State or the Iraqi forces sent to vanquish them. Others were torched by a vengeful mob.

It is fitting that the broad consensus required to establish a national park translates into more difficulty to reverse its establishment — just as it is appropriate that monuments that a term-limited president creates unilaterally can be modified easily.

If you thought Clinton’s emails were a scandal last year, can you argue now that Kushner’s private server is nobody else’s business? And if you thought Clinton’s emails were no big deal, are you willing to give the president’s son-in-law the benefit of the doubt as well?

Nearly 100 soldiers from the South Dakota National Guard 189th Aviation Regiment will soon be headed to the Middle East for a year of service.

Nearly 100 soldiers from the South Dakota National Guard 189th Aviation Regiment will soon be headed to the Middle East for a year of service.