Новости за 18.02.2018

A rare parchment copy of the Declaration of Independence, made in Washington in the 1820s for founding father James Madison, was apparently unknown to the public for more than a century.

Thomas Begay, 92, is believed to be the last surviving member of the 5th Marine Division’s famed bilingual radio unit on Iwo Jima.

The sound of gunfire still ringing in his ears after his mad half-mile sprint, Jack Ciaramello was standing with friends in a grocery store parking lot when a sheriff's deputy approached. He asked the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High senior if he knew a former student named Nikolas Cruz.

Students of the Florida school where 17 people died last week said Sunday they will organize nationwide marches for gun control next month.

“Kingdom Come” is unlike any other RPG made. While plenty of RPGs have paid lip service to realism, almost all of them eventually have veered in magic, prophecies about the Chosen One or some other such nonsense. “Deliverance” offers no such tomfoolery and replaces it with chores, learning how to read and getting your ass kicked. Constantly.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has canceled a nearly week-long trip to Israel, agency officials confirmed Sunday.

Maj. Gen. Joseph Harrington will retire as a one-star, the last rank at which he served satisfactorily, according to media reports.

The former commander of U.S. Army Africa has been forced to retire for a flirtatious texting relationship with an enlisted man’s wife and will lose a star in the bargain.

An Egyptian court has sentenced 65 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group to jail over alleged incitement against the state.

The mission is to ferret out threats to military and spy satellites and take actions to keep American interests safe in orbit.

The benchmark was achieved with the graduation of 23 pilots in Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Class 18-05, the latest members of the military to join a fight that's gone for more than 16 years.

He's now serving as a maintenance officer, working with about 50 people in a shop at Mountain Home and charged with repairing aircraft.

Homes For Our Troops builds and donates specially adapted custom homes for severely injured post-Sept. 11 veterans.

The flag came to firefighters as a post-October inferno tribute from Matt Hutchinson, an Army veteran and a lieutenant with the San Francisco Fire Department, and his friend, Rangers 1st Sgt. Keith Bach.

The DODEA-Europe boys basketball title reigns of Ramstein, Black Forest Academy and Sigonella are at risk this week as the four-day European basketball championships play out at sites around Wiesbaden, Germany. The tournament opens Wednesday and concludes with a slate of divisional championship games Saturday at Clay Kaserne Fitness Center.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who took the stage after Netanyahu, said the characterization of Iran’s role in the region was “hysteria.”

The Naples’ Wildcats bid for their first Division I girls basketball championship headlines this week’s DODEA-Europe tournament.

Critics have dismissed the presence of the North Korean athletes who have come to Pyeongchang as a publicity stunt by the North, but others have hoped they might offer a glimpse into a country the world knows so little about.

As the opposition's last bastion at the edge of Damascus, Eastern Ghouta has been cut off from the world. United Nations aid convoys visit rarely. A blitz by Syrian government warplanes early this month killed at least 210 people and sent hundreds more pouring into what remains of a buckling hospital network.

New York's Roman Catholic Archbishop Timothy Dolan celebrated the funeral Mass for an Army National Guard soldier and native of Ghana who died while rescuing some of more than a dozen people trapped in the deadliest fire in the city in about a quarter of a century.

Kent Cooper, a Washington architect for more than 50 years who played a vital role in the creation of the Vietnam and Korean War memorials on the Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, died Jan. 27 at a hospital in the District of Columbia. He was 91.

State elections officials said Saturday that they want more information from federal officials to ensure they are protected from cybersecurity threats in light of evidence that foreign operatives plan to try to interfere in the midterm elections.

The Hawaii government's erroneous warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack caused confusion at U.S. military facilities, frustrating senior U.S. military officers and causing them to question procedures for communicating with state officials, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post.

A military helicopter carrying officials who were assessing damage from a powerful earthquake flipped as it was attempting to land in southern Mexico, crashing on top of people who had fled their homes and were spending the night outside. Thirteen people were killed — the only known fatalities related to the quake — and 16 were injured.

A military helicopter carrying officials who were assessing damage from a powerful earthquake flipped as it was attempting to land in southern Mexico, crashing on top of people who had fled their homes and were spending the night outside. Thirteen people were killed — the only known fatalities related to the quake — and 16 were injured.