Новости за 27.11.2017

If federal lawmakers fail to reach a deal to ease defense spending reductions, the Air Force could be forced to curb aircraft spending, cut aging fleet modernization plans, and freeze civilian hiring, a top Wright-Patterson general says.

Iraqi police and hospital officials say a bombing in southeast Baghdad has killed 11 people. The officials say the attack late Monday night targeted a popular shopping district and left also 26 civilians wounded.

Marine Corps Col. Wesley Fox, who received the Medal of Honor for successfully leading his company through an enemy attack during the Vietnam War and retired decades later at the mandatory age of 62, died the evening of Nov. 24 in Blacksburg, Va. He was 86.

Leandra English, who was elevated to interim director of the bureau last week by its outgoing director, sent staff an email offering Thanksgiving wishes. President Donald Trump's choice for the role — White House budget director Mick Mulvaney — then emailed staff to tell them to "disregard" any instructions from English.

Three congressional committees are investigating Russian interference and whether President Donald Trump's campaign was in any way involved. The panels have obtained thousands of pages of documents from Trump's campaign and other officials, and have done dozens of interviews.

A retired Marine colonel who once served as a top aide to White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly plans to launch a long shot write-in campaign Monday afternoon to become Alabama's next senator, with just 15 days left in the campaign.

By now, Mike Hughes should have already proved that the Earth was flat. That was according to his original plan, which had been to launch himself 1,800 feet high last Saturday in his homemade scrap-metal rocket over Amboy, California, an unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert along historic Route 66.

Police are boosting security at Germany’s famed Christmas markets, including those in cities with large populations of U.S. military personnel and their families.

Judi Dench loves a good surprise. She's cooking one up on this late autumn morning, her last day in Los Angeles promoting her new movie, "Victoria & Abdul," before returning home to London.

A spate of recent public revelations, including the spontaneous #metoo discussions on social media, is emboldening many victims of sexual harassment to speak up, but many still remain silent. The Associated Press spoke to several experts about why this sexual misconduct in the workplace is still underreported.

NASA launched two copies of the album — which contains spoken greetings in 55 languages, music by Bach and Chuck Berry, and even songs by humpback whales — into space in 1977 on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts.

A calendar of events on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

The case arose out of a 2012 drone strike in eastern Yemen. The relatives of two people killed in the strike sued the United States, saying it was a U.S. drone strike that had killed their relatives who were innocent civilians.

A calendar of nearby events of interest to people living on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

Rapidly changing modes of living and working call for leaders at the peak of their creative and conceptual powers.

The backlash to the #MeToo movement has begun. As the parade of post-Weinstein exposés marches on, so do the unhappy reactions to a sexual landscape suddenly turned on its head.

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

The Catalan independence movement is divided over how to move forward as opinion polls suggest the December regional election is too close to call.

A United Nations Command officer used a bullhorn to broadcast a message about armistice violations across the Demilitarized Zone to North Korea but as of Monday the communist state has not responded to a request for a meeting to discuss the allegations.

Airman 1st Class Hayley Reynolds of the 48th Fighter Wing has been identified as the person killed in a car crash last week in Brandon, England.

Germany's political stalemate showed signs of easing as the Social Democrats started haggling over terms of a renewed coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc rather than outright blocking an alliance between Germany's two biggest parties.

South Korea’s defense minister promised to keep it short as he began a speech before eating lunch with U.S. and South Korean soldiers. But the way he said it is getting all the attention.

South Korea’s defense minister said North Korea violated the armistice between the two countries by firing at a fleeing defector and it “must not happen again” as he got a firsthand look Monday at the bullet-riddled scene of the border dash.

The woman's secret flight from the caliphate took place more than six months ago, aided by a smuggler who helped her sneak across the Syrian-Turkish border one spring night. But in spirit, this red-haired exile from the Islamic State never truly left.

Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation is focusing on one of President Donald Trump’s closest yet quietest confidants.