Новости за 29.12.2017

President Donald Trump welcomed members of the U.S. Coast Guard to one of his Florida golf courses Friday.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R.N.C., was a management consultant before entering elective politics, and has used this background to help inform his decision-making as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel and to manage his Senate staff.

In a nearly hour-long presentation, Chris Fussell didn't once mention tactics like rappelling from a helicopter, kicking in doors in search of terrorists or the best way to sneak aboard a ship undetected. Instead, he launched into what could easily be a graduate-level business course in leadership strategies and organizational management.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said Friday the U.S. is determined to reduce the number of civilian casualties in the Saudi-led campaign against rebels in Yemen and will press ahead with efforts to train Saudi pilots to identify legitimate targets.

Former Marine and sculptor Lee Busby received the most write-in votes in Tuscaloosa County with 462 votes. Busby, a Tuscaloosa resident, announced his write-in campaign two weeks before the special election.

The United States Embassy in the Republic of Congo says a naturalized U.S. citizen who was detained in the country for more than a year has been released.

China on Friday denied violating U.N.-imposed limits on oil supplies to North Korea after U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Beijing for allowing oil to reach the North.

Michael W. Lynch Jr. lies under a headstone that mistakenly labels him a veteran of the Vietnam War who served in the U.S. Air Force. In fact, the East Hartford native was a proud veteran of the Connecticut Air National Guard and never served in Vietnam, Karen Petrella, one of his three surviving children, said.

Although many departments have faced the same problems, there is not yet an established protocol for how to deal with post-traumatic stress. Researchers say every case is different, and every officer will require a different sort of care. And some first responders to the Pulse attack say their PTSD diagnoses haven’t been handled well.

As Uighurs flee a Chinese security crackdown in droves, they often end up caught in a tug-of-war between militant Uighur members of Syria-based Islamic groups and moderate leaders of the Uighur diaspora who plead with them to reject calls of jihad.

Despite the long-stated goal of the U.S-led, anti-ISIS coalition to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the United States would observe its commitment to Russia and Syria to keep its forces, including warplanes, east of the Euphrates River.

On Thursday, the temperature on Mars hit -20 degrees Fahrenheit. That might have felt positively balmy to some Canadians, who are shivering through a frigid cold snap.

The high school junior raised more than $7,000. With help from cycling firms — which offered deep discounts — a newly restarted charity was able to collect $11,000 worth of bicycles for children.

The airstrikes are a stark reminder of the huge humanitarian costs of nearly three years of air attacks on Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition — using many U.S. and Western arms — against a rebel force that ousted the remnants of a Saudi-backed government in early 2015.

Richard M. Prinzi Jr., CPA, was back at his childhood home in Staten Island for a Christmas party when he noticed something strange. He had, through no concerted effort on his part, become ... popular.

President Donald Trump noted Friday that the U.S. Postal Service is "losing many billions of dollars a year" and asked why the agency is "charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages."

Israel's military retaliated to rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on Friday with strikes on posts used by the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules the territory. The exchange caused no casualties on either side.

To many Europeans, New Year's Eve is the time they commit to living a healthier life in the next year. They could start by not leaving their homes that night, German authorities say.

President Donald Trump says the East Coast "could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming" as bitterly cold temperatures are expected to freeze large swaths of the country this holiday weekend.

Patients who are not active duty or dependents of servicemembers are restricted to making same-day medical appointments on a space-available basis, a change hospital officials say was required to meet access-to-care standards.

It's as if the movies answered our call. In a year that has seemed long and confusing, movies became an unexpected centering point, a beacon. As the era of Peak TV has toppled over on itself, cinema at least partly took back the reins of cultural conversation. Amid an ongoing onslaught of news and information, the idea of genuinely focusing on something else for a few hours often seemed the better thing to do.

Drones have been a vital part of the Pentagon's arsenal for years, but the competition for a Navy carrier-based version that can refuel jet fighters in the midair would mark a significant advancement in the technology — and become another sign how the military is increasingly integrating robots into the way it fights.

The ship grouping also will have the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and more than 2,200 Marines aboard for deployments.

Joker, a dog belonging to deployed Navy couple Christopher and Summer Burgos, went missing on Dec. 21 after a long flight from San Diego to Fort Lauderdale.