Новости за 12.12.2017

Naval Academy lore claims a midshipman who can get his cap — called a cover — atop the chapel’s obelisk will earn relaxed restrictions, or carry-on. One midshipman is getting the opposite of that, thanks to a stunt involving his cover and a statue.

Despite Russia's ban from the upcoming Olympics, officials in the country still expect more than 200 of their athletes to compete at the Pyeongchang Games.

The U.S. Navy on Monday awarded Bath Iron Works a $23.9 million modification to a previously awarded contract as a lead yard for Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.

The trouble started with a giant dirt hole that appeared in Michelle Conner’s front yard.

Staff Sgt. David Thomas Brabander, 24, of Anchorage, Alaska, died Monday from injuries sustained in a non-combat vehicle accident in Nangarhar province, the Pentagon said in a statement.

The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration office that regulates pharmaceutical opioids told senators Tuesday that a 2016 law has made enforcement more difficult in urgent circumstances and should be revised.

National security adviser H.R. McMaster said the strategy will incorporate four core national interests: the protection of American people; advancing American prosperity; "preserving peace through strength"; and advancing American influence.

Every time John Musgrave saw a picture of a contemporary Vietnamese soldier he was consumed by the terror and hatred that had taken hold of him in 1967, when he watched his buddies go down one by one on the battlefield until finally it had been his turn.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a massive $700 billion defense budget into law, leaving a fight ahead on how to pay for the plan.

It's the lock that launched a two-year investigation and took down a president. And now more than four decades later — and for a starting bid of $50,000 — it can be a really wonky conversation piece.

Now that Confederate names have been stripped from one LSU street and two buildings are slated to be torn down, a coalition of student groups wants to change the names on two buildings on the Baton Rouge campus. New names being floated are former U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert H. Barrow and Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

Now that Confederate names have been stripped from one LSU street and two buildings are slated to be torn down, a coalition of student groups wants to change the names on two buildings on the Baton Rouge campus. New names being floated are former U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert H. Barrow and Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

Col. John Howard took the job as commander of the 375th Air Mobility Wing in July but was replaced Monday by Col. W. Chris Buschur, after the Air Force commander lost confidence in him, according to a news release.

Lawmakers are on the verge of striking a tentative agreement that would reconcile tax bills passed separately by the House and Senate, and an announcement could come later Tuesday or sometime Wednesday, a top Senate Republican said Tuesday.

American Forces Network made the switch to high-definition TV overnight Monday in Europe, the Americas, Southwest Asia and Africa, completing the last phase of the agency’s worldwide conversion to HD programming.

The Federal Security Service, or FSB, said Tuesday that the suspects were plotting a series of suicide attacks in the Russian capital during the New Year's holidays and the presidential election campaign.

An Okinawa-based Marine has been indicted on charges related to a Nov. 19 crash that killed a 61-year-old Japanese national and led to alcohol and liberty restrictions affecting all U.S. servicemembers in Japan.

Three Marines have been credited with saving the life of a 44-year-old father of three who had pulled over to help injured Japanese motorists after an accident on the Okinawa Expressway.

An 18-year-old Houston man was charged Monday with distributing bomb-making instructions and trying to support the Islamic State group, the Justice Department said.

Laura Dern was only 6 years old when she saw “Star Wars: A New Hope.” “I will never forget it. That was the first long line I ever waited in. When I saw it, a whole new world opened,” Dern recalls. “At the time, I don’t think I had caught up to knowing I wanted to be an actor. But, what Star Wars gave to me was knowing the world of make-believe.”

Her biological father was killed in World War II when the USS Indianapolis sank in what became the worst maritime disaster in U.S. naval history.

After Hurricane Maria cut a path of devastation through the Caribbean, a 13-year-old boy at a Defense Department school on Guam decided to make a difference.

A decision handed down recently in a military appellate court sheds light on a sexual scandal that rocked Marine Corps Air Station Miramar last year, detailing a senior enlisted leader’s escapades with a superior officer in their offices and inappropriate dalliances with his junior troops.

A decision handed down recently in a military appellate court sheds light on a sexual scandal that rocked Marine Corps Air Station Miramar last year, detailing a senior enlisted leader’s escapades with a superior officer in their offices and inappropriate dalliances with his junior troops.