Новости за 26.03.2018

Possums are rough-and-tumble, they eat all manner of things, they are surprisingly cute at times and off-putting at others, with their mouthful of serrated-edge teeth. One is on the record having thoroughly freaked out an American president.

At 76, Gen. Hugh Shelton has instructed his booking agent to scale back on his public appearances. After all, following a military career that spanned 450 parachute jumps and eight surgeries, America's 14th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is hobbled with chronic pain. But he didn't think twice about attending the "Welcome Home" ceremonies.

Facing one of the driest years in decades, Fort Carson leaders say they've taken extra steps to stop fires like last week's blaze that spread from a training area on post to a rural neighborhood, burning two homes.

To help relieve its pilot shortage, the Air Force needs to lean on more bad guys. Check that: They need good guys who fly like bad guys. And one Newport News-based contractor has that job in its sights.

The clash of Germans and Britons that ended with 21,000 casualties on that World War I field was being simulated by shivering Bay Area ninth-graders in jackets, jeans, tights and bicycle helmets. They were pretty fierce with their water weapons at 6:50 a.m., when they otherwise would have been in bed ignoring parental pleas to get moving.

Rick Valentine doesn’t do it for the notoriety. Nor the gratitude from families or the warm fuzzy feelings that can follow. He does it because he believes it to be a duty.

Andrew Armour, 25, was working as a U.S. Army Active Duty and Reserves Recruiter in Shelby, while his younger brother had not completed high school and was having trouble holding down a job in Ohio. At the age of 22, Kevin was at risk of becoming homeless.

What do you do after you've made yet another beautiful film in a career defined -- some might say stymied -- by an obsessive devotion to beauty?

According to FanGraphs' projections, the Indians, Astros and Dodgers are expected to win their respective division by at least 11 games with the Nationals and Cubs winning their divisions by six games or more. That leaves the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry to take center stage in the AL East.

Players sat around the room, quietly going through their postgame media paces. Toward the back of the room, Isaac Haas, dressed in a black Purdue pullover with "empathy" written across it, patiently answered every question he was asked even though it was clear he was in a lot of pain — most of it emotional.

U.S. military officials failed to properly track some 95,000 vehicles provided to Afghan forces or ensure millions of dollars of gasoline and other commodities were used for their intended purposes, according to a Pentagon watchdog.

Kim Jong Un has made a surprise visit to Beijing on his first known trip outside North Korea since taking power in 2011, three people with knowledge of the visit said.

The U.S. military denied news reports that it was preparing to abandon bases in Qatar and Turkey after issuing a flurry of Twitter posts from multiple commands Sunday.

Military leaders have said they’re overwhelmed by unnecessary training requirements, but seasoned officers in Afghanistan said they see signs of a turnaround as the Pentagon looks to streamline military policies.

Six weeks after rioting destroyed huge swaths of Washington in 1968, one of the city's supervisors in Congress, an unrepentant segregationist named John McMillan, convened a committee hearing to grill public safety officials about their handling of the crisis. "Johnny Mac," as folks called him, was upset that police and military troops, in his view, had been meek and ineffective in combating the mayhem.

The Federal Trade Commission confirmed Monday that it has opened an investigation of Facebook following reports that a data analysis firm used by the Trump campaign improperly accessed the names, "likes" and other personal information from at least 30 million users on the social site.

Japan’s famous cherry blossoms have reached full bloom in Tokyo as spring-like weather descends on the nation’s capital.

A list of U.S. Army soldiers who have been promoted to the ranks of sergeant major, master sergeant and sergeant first class in April, 2018, as announced on March 26, 2018:

Americans appear open to President Donald Trump's surprise decision to negotiate directly with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and at the same time are less concerned than in recent months by the threat posed by the pariah nation's nuclear weapons.

His deep belief in military action will strengthen the president’s most macho instincts.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis commanded troops in Iraq and must surely rue the irony that not one of the living veterans of that conflict has been found worthy of the nation’s highest award for valor.

Places in Japan & South Korea to celebrate the bloom.

The ailing teen romance genre is a rite of passage for many young stars. Mandy Moore had "A Walk to Remember"; Shailene Woodley had "The Fault in Our Stars," and never forget the patient zero of these movies: the '70s cancer tearjerker "Love Story."

STUTTGART, Germany — The U.S. military has launched its first airstrike against al-Qaida in Libya as operations expand beyond targeting the Islamic State group.

Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force will undergo a sweeping reorganization this week designed to improve responses to natural disasters and incursions from countries like China.