Новости за 11.11.2017

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Daniel Dill was on his way to pick up his wife and her friends when he crossed paths with a drunken driver going the wrong way on the Interstate in Virginia. He later died of his injuries.

There are holiday movies, and then there are holiday movies.

North Korea said President Trump's remarks before South Korea’s National Assembly were reckless and that it "pushes us to speed up the efforts to accomplish the great cause of completing the state nuclear force.”

Anastasia Biefang's decision to transition from male to female coincided with an unprecedented openness among top military officials in Germany, the United States and other countries to having transgender troops serve openly. Since then, the U.S. and Germany have taken dramatically different turns.

Turkey is expecting justice from the U.S., not a political arrangement to exchange prisoners held by each country, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said after a trip to Washington to meet with Vice President Mike Pence.

A Marine Corps pilot returning from a pleasure flight over the Eastern Shore with his sons on Friday made an emergency crash landing on the ramp off Interstate 97 near Annapolis, Maryland. No injuries were reported.

Army veteran Shawn Scott wants to help VA medical providers better understand the cluster of conditions known as Gulf War illness, so they could improve care for vets like him. "Every time I went to see a doctor, I’d say I had Gulf War Illness and they’d say, ‘What’s that?’”

The photograph is one of the best known pictures from World War I, and the men had all been identified. But a retired National Archives senior picture archivist wanted to know who, exactly, they were.

U.S. Forces Korea celebrated Veterans Day for the first time on a newly expanded base that is now home to the 8th Army.

Mike DeWine says the grants are part of efforts to spend the funds as intended, to help veterans. John Paul Cody, long known as Bobby Thompson, was convicted in 2013 and sentenced to 28 years on charges he looted the United States Navy Veterans Association that he ran.

When Pearl Harbor survivor John Seelie died last Aug. 11,he left his Pearl Harbor hat for Emi Kopke, wrapped in a white ribbon. "He told people I had to keep his hat because I represented the younger generation and as long as I was around I could keep his memory alive."

Just shy of his 99th birthday, World War II tank commander Vernon Foster vividly recalls hellish battles in France and Germany, being blasted in the face by shrapnel, logging 2,600 miles in the five-man Sherman tank named for his wife Dottie, and meeting President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

At 97, John Bergmann is the last surviving member of his 25-man codebreaking unit and is among a ever-shrinking number of living World War II veterans. Throughout the year but especially around Veterans Day, you'll find Bergmann out and about at area high schools, telling students about experiences that were long kept under wraps.

Farm worker Ivan Mendoza is riding his bicycle down a busy central Fresno street carrying a bag of recyclables so he can “buy some milk or something” when he comes upon a sign, “Need prayer?” hanging off the side of a pop-up tent.

President Donald Trump said Russia's Vladimir Putin once again vehemently denied interfering in the 2016 U.S. elections during their discussions on the sidelines of an economic summit Saturday. Trump declined to say whether he believed Putin, but made clear he's not interested in dwelling on the issue."

Texas bar officials are aiming to take a program that offers free legal services to veteran nationwide and offering their expertise to counterparts in other states.

Parliament wants the country's leaders to take over the sprawling complex that is just steps from the gleaming core of the European Union. It is the latest attempt to tighten security after radicalized Belgians emerged at the heart of terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels in the last three years.

Iraq's Prime Minister says Iraqi forces are launching an operation to push Islamic State group fighters out of a patch of territory on the western edge of the country near the border with Syria.

Army Sgt. (ret.) Aaron Hale was hit by an IED on Dec. 8, 2011, in Afghanistan. The blast fused his eyelids together, perforated his eardrums and cracked his skull. Despite the hurdles he has had to climb, he "has no regrets" about his decision to become a military bomb technician.

Servicemembers, civilians and dependents streamed into a flight line hangar at Ramstein Air Base on Friday night for the 2017 Armed Forces Classic, an annual game organized and broadcast by ESPN that brings live NCAA basketball to military audiences around the world.

Jean Felix told the court Friday it was hard for her husband, Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Felix, to see graduating Marines and their families during his suspension.

Maybe they were brash. Maybe they were foolhardy. Maybe they were just five more victims in a war with hundreds of millions of victims — but maybe, George, Francis, Joseph, Madison and Albert Sullivan were heroes as well.

While there’s been a policy against military family members serving together as the Sullivans did, it’s never been formally enacted as a law.

Rob Jones braved the cold weather on Veterans Day to complete his mission: running 31 marathons in 31 days.

CLARK AIR BASE, Philippines — President Donald Trump is expected to underscore the importance of the U.S.-Philippines alliance while in the country for a summit of Asian leaders, a State Department official told a group of mostly pro-Trump veterans here over the weekend.