Новости за 16.11.2017

The memorial will honor the 27 soldiers of Marion County who died during the Korean War. Another space will be provided for 2,100 granite name plaques for all military veterans.

It wasn't a surprise to head coach Jeff Monken that Javhari Bourdeau was alert. He's been ready to contribute since the start of the season.

With an Air Force pilot shortage that has hit 2,000, and commercial airlines in a hiring boom, service leaders are brainstorming ways to address a deepening crisis, eyeing improved financial incentives and a host of administrative actions to improve quality of life for aviators and their families.

Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said the shortfall accounts for a backlog of ship and aircraft maintenance and repairs for hangars and other facilities damaged by the three devastating hurricanes this year within six weeks.

“Are there really ghosts in this town?” I asked our waitress. She lifted an eyebrow. “Oh, yes,” she replied. “Everywhere.”

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As the recovery continues from last month’s devastating Northern California wildfires, the iconic wine regions are looking to kick-start their important hospitality and tourism industry with a simple message: We are open for business.

What remains of this Big Island village south of Hilo has re-energized with a weekly night market that draws lines of cars to fill a parking lot edging a sprawling black field of lava rock.

In a quick voice vote, the Senate on Thursday approved a massive defense bill, sending a nearly $700 billion plan that would enact raises for servicemembers, increase the size of the military, fund new ships and aircraft and authorize new spending on missile defense, to the president’s desk ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Fox News wants to know: “Is the left ready for a Bill Clinton ‘reckoning’?” The answer, as it turns out, is sort of.

A former Air Force contractor admitted to some charges in the killing of a 20-year-old Okinawan woman last year. However, he pleaded not guilty to murder and insisted her death was not planned, during the first day of his trial Thursday at Naha District Court.

There has been little attention to the way Trump is mirroring Jackson’s impressive feat of chasing (and in Jackson’s case, winning) re-election as an outsider after four years as the ultimate insider.

British Airways has translated frequent flier feedback into an unofficial rulebook on airplane etiquette.

The United States and its allies are finishing a 10-day naval exercise led by NATO ally Turkey, whose relations with Washington have grown increasingly tense.

Investigators with the VA Office of Inspector General confirmed a whistleblower's claim that staff at the agency's Denver-area hospital kept unauthorized lists instead of using the department's official wait list system.

After months of little response from the departments of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other lawmakers renewed efforts Thursday to stop the deportation of veterans from the U.S. and secure more protections for them.

At least two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, including the chair, expressed concern with nominee John Rood’s responses to questions regarding his background as a former Lockheed Martin employee. Rood is vying to become undersecretary of defense for policy.

The Japanese government has been examining measures to deal with a large number of North Koreans escaping to Japan in the case of a contingency on the Korean Peninsula, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

Across the United States, people have been trekking to national parks, theme parks and other tourist attractions in record numbers during the last few years, creating an unexpected problem for the tourism industry: too many customers.

Air National Command Chief Master Sgt. Amy Giaquinto, a 23-year veteran of the U.S. military now serving as the top enlisted leader of the New York Army and Air National Guard, is the first woman to hold the position.

The Navy will require recruits to pass a running fitness test prior to beginning basic training as of Jan. 1, the service said Wednesday.

A stressed Gulf War veteran who set himself on fire outside a VA clinic and later died went nearly a year without a mental health appointment or medication, one of several serious problems government investigators found with the clinic in a report released Thursday.

Some U.S. military buildings will be closed Sunday so a 500-pound bomb found in a wooded area near the Army garrison here can be safely detonated.

The jury at Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez's federal bribery trial told the judge that it remained deadlocked Thursday after deliberating over more than seven days, and the judge weighed a defense request for a mistrial.

Minnesota Sen. Al Franken apologized Thursday after a Los Angeles radio anchor accused him of forcibly kissing her during a 2006 USO tour and of posing for a photo with his hands on her breasts as she slept.

Over the past week, Hohenfels training area in Germany transformed into an imaginary battleground where Lithuanian soldiers have led an effort to stave off a fictional enemy force.