Новости за 19.11.2017

The Rhodes Trust on Sunday announced the 32 men and women chosen for post-graduate studies at Oxford University in England. Among them: the first black woman to lead the Corps of Cadets at West Point; a wrestler at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who's helping develop a prosthetic knee for use in the developing world; and a Portland, Oregon, man who has studied gaps in his hometown's "sanctuary city" policy.

The Russian overflight conducted Oct. 4-6 was sanctioned by the United States as part of the Treaty on Open Skies, which has been in effect since 2002 to verify arms control agreements and promote stability through transparency of military forces and activities.

Mel Tillis, the affable longtime country star who wrote hits for Kenny Rogers, Ricky Skaggs and many others, and overcame a stutter to sing on dozens of his own singles, has died.

President Donald Trump's budget director said Sunday that the White House is open to removing a repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate from the GOP legislation to overhaul the nation's tax laws if it becomes an hindrance to the bill's passage.

Military surgeon Maj. Joseph Lee deployed to a remote Cameroon hospital recently. But he didn’t perform surgery. That's not a rare occurrence. Most military hospitals do far fewer surgeries than civilian surgery centers and lag behind civilian surgeons in case numbers and complexity.

On Nov. 9, Syria's military command declared it had liberated Boukamal. But that turned out to be a ruse, and the militants stormed the town to retake more than half of it over the next two days.

Pro-government forces defeated the Islamic State group in its last major stronghold in Syria, state media and a monitoring group reported on Sunday, leaving the militants to defend just strips of desert territory in the country and a besieged pocket outside the capital, Damascus.

Son Chuck Stone said his father did not talk much about the Nuremberg trials but was proud of his service to help rebuild Germany.

The daughter of a Navy veteran, she wanted to join the Coast Guard, but they couldn't take her for six months so she opted for the Army.

Lt. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson said the Marine Corps holds servicemembers to the “highest standards of conduct,” and that it would cooperate with investigators “to the fullest extent.”

Japanese media reported that a breath test indicated the Marine had an alcohol level three times the legal limit.

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service reported a 120 percent surge in online sales after opening online shopping to millions of veterans earlier this month.

Congress has rejected an Alabama lawmaker’s plan to create a branch of the military just for outer space. But within the national defense budget bill, now awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature, is a blueprint for creating a Space Corps in the not-too-distant future.

North Korea is on an “aggressive schedule” to build and deploy its first operational ballistic-missile submarine, a U.S. think tank said, citing commercial satellite imagery.

The U.S. Navy said it will join the search for a missing Argentine submarine as the country's navy said it may have detected seven brief satellite calls Saturday from the vessel that vanished with 44 crew members aboard.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it stopped a runaway boat near the North Carolina coast after the boat's operator was knocked into the water.

The top officer at U.S. Strategic Command said Saturday an order from President Donald Trump or any of his successors to launch nuclear weapons can be refused if that order is determined to be illegal.

Argentina's Navy said Saturday it was ramping up the search for a submarine that hadn't been heard from in three days, and at least six other nations said they would join in the effort.

The U.S. Navy is deploying assets from the San Diego-based Undersea Rescue Command to Argentina to join in the search for the missing Argentinian Navy submarine A.R.A. San Juan in the Atlantic Ocean.

The book at the center of three major world religions got its own museum in the heart of the nation's capital on Saturday.