Новости за 03.05.2018

Nashville police said a suspect is in custody and there's no further threat after a person was wounded inside Nashville's Opry Mills Mall.

The Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, the House chaplain who announced his resignation under pressure last month, informed Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., Thursday that he wanted to rescind his offer and remain in his position at least through the end of this year.

The Arizona governor signed a plan Thursday to give striking teachers a 20 percent pay raise, ending their five-day walkout after a dramatic all-night legislative session and sending more than a million public school students back to the classroom.

Former CIA director Michael Hayden said Thursday during a television interview that the 2015 Jade Helm controversy in Texas was an early example of Russian efforts to spread misinformation in the United States.

For decades, earthlings have dispatched spacecraft to Mars to study the planet’s dusty surface and its thin atmosphere. Now NASA is sending a lander to the red planet to look deep into its heart.

More than 4,000 Mississippi National Guard soldiers are about one-third of the way through intensive training to prepare them for a nine-month deployment to the Middle East.

A race that's supposed to last barely two minutes instead dragged out nearly five years before a victor was definitively crowned. In the 144-year history of the event, the 1968 race stands as the Derby's lone drug scandal and the only time a winning horse was disqualified.

Concerned residents from across the greater Boise area met Wednesday evening for a scoping meeting to discuss a proposal over urban warfare training by the military.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has reached a first-ever agreement with the Coast Guard to work on a wide range of technologies, from future development of drones to artificial intelligence, officials said.

Former President George H.W. Bush is complimenting the medical workers helping him recover from an infection at a Houston hospital. But he says that once doctors give him the OK to leave, "I'm outta here."

Is RBG getting enough kale? That was the question — only partly in jest — that circulated back in early 2017 when President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. The idea — for liberals, anyway — was that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had better stay healthy, or the court’s precarious balance would be lost.

Dozens of senior staff members have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since January, an exodus that predates President Donald Trump's firing of VA Secretary David Shulkin in March and appears to have accelerated in the chaotic weeks since.

An old cargo plane used by the Puerto Rico Air National Guard was on its way to an aircraft graveyard in Arizona when it crashed Wednesday near Savannah, Ga., killing all nine Guard members on board. Thursday, the Guardsmen were identified.

French President Emmanuel Macron is a world leader keenly aware of his international image — and so he may have been taken aback when one of Australia's leading newspaper depicted him as an amorous and narcissistic French skunk on its front page.

Former FBI director James Comey on Thursday chastised Rudy Giuliani, a recent addition to President Donald Trump's legal team, for referring to FBI agents in New York as "stormtroopers" during a television interview.

The United States lodged a formal complaint to China, asking the country to investigate repeated instances in which American military aircraft were targeted by high-powered lasers near a Chinese military base in Djibouti, the Pentagon said Thursday.

The operator of a remote Alaska lodge that was the site of a serious oil spill says he had Coast Guard permission to store petroleum in a bladder within a building suspended over a beach. The Coast Guard denies it gave permission.

Lawmakers are trying again to broker a deal on reforms for the Department of Veterans Affairs that would overhaul the agency’s community care programs, relaxing rules for when veterans are eligible to go to private doctors for medical care.

Violence has been increasing in the region between the Fulani communities, some of whom are suspected of links with the extremist group, and Tuaregs allied with French soldiers fighting extremism in the Sahel.

A Connecticut woman's call to police to report domestic violence led to a standoff and explosion in a barn behind her home that left one person dead and nine officers injured. The officers were being treated for non-life-threatening injuries after the Wednesday night blast.

U.S. military aircraft flying over Djibouti are being targeted by high-powered lasers from an area near China’s military base in the small east African country, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

"Kung Fu Panda 2" director Jennifer Yuh Nelson was the first woman to solo direct an animated feature for a major Hollywood studio and the first woman of color to direct a film with a budget of $150 million. While she has broken a number of glass ceilings, she insists she never realizes it until someone tells her.

Five Navy servicemembers who were stationed in San Diego fraudulently claimed $100,000 insurance payouts for non-existent injuries, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.

The 175-page “An Assessment of the Military Survivor Benefit Plan” was ordered by Congress and concludes that SBP is “well-structured to provide survivor benefits” and the benefits “compare well with those of public and private plans.”

Language can be a barrier between teammates. Major League Baseball estimates 30 percent of its players come from outside the U.S., mainly the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Cuba.