Новости за 31.12.2017

After the deadliest year in two decades, the first half of 2017 seemed just as grim in Chicago as homicides remained devastatingly high, raising fears that the "spike" in violence had become a new normal for the city. Then in the second half of the year, homicides plummeted.

Yes, former President Barack Obama, who once famously characterized ISIS as the junior varsity, laid the foundation for defeating ISIS. But our efforts too often seemed fruitless and feckless and unable to blunt ISIS' military or rhetorical advance. President Donald Trump changed the equation.

Before the building donation, the homeless had been sleeping in two military tents donated by the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Barstow at the compound located at the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds in Victorville.

About a year after construction first started, the Veteran's Village in Umatilla is nearing completion. The development, backed by Habitat for Humanity of Lake-Sumter and open to military veterans, will have all 14 planned homes finished by the summer. Four families live there now with four more homes finished by February.

Following a stint in the Air Force, Mark Mendoza worked as an undercover police officer led an orderly, disciplined life rooted in duty and service until 2008, when, in the span of two months, he had a heart attack and his 17-year-old daughter died in a tragic accident, sending him into an emotional tailspin.

Rapid Imaging Software, a New Mexico technology company whose augmented reality software is used by the U.S. military, has relocated to the Madison area – without the usual logistic headaches of a cross-country move.

Perhaps the most unique services in the fleet occur aboard submarines that spend the majority of their time under water. Submarine Force Atlantic says it is preparing for burials at sea on several Norfolk-based subs in the next few months.

Growing up in Milledgeville, Ga., Horace Humphries Jr. would ride his bicycle to watch Georgia Military College cadets as they drilled and dream of the day he could attend. But it was the South before the Civil Rights Movement. Segregation still reigned. He did not get in.

A Utah commission has approved a $10 million loan to build roads for a hotel associated with the U.S. military to be built near a large Park City ski resort.