Новости за 25.08.2018

Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman's name was added to the Air Force Memorial and unveiled in a ceremony on Friday, two days after he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

By the time of November's election, Democratic candidates and liberal groups will have raised an astounding $1.5 billion in online contributions alone.

Craig Bessent used to be a bull rider. Now he's an assistant superintendent who stays on top of school bus schedules and cafeteria complaints. But the black bulletproof vest tucked in the corner of Bessent's office is proof that he hasn't left danger behind.

A former Florida elementary school teacher is on federal radar after posting several “concerning” YouTube videos. In one of them he says he wants to “seize” the school and the Miami-Dade County School Board building with armored tanks, school district officials confirmed.

At the outset of the 1998 impeachment hearings, Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., asked a memorable question that could resonate for some lawmakers today: "Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?" a reference to a steamy soap opera from the 1960s.

Wisconsin is launching a $1.9 million national marketing campaign to attract military personnel and their spouses to the Badger State to live and work when they leave the service.

The Senate took two steps Friday to address drinking water tainted with perfluorinated compounds, setting aside cash to reimburse Pikes Peak region utilities for cleanup and scheduling a hearing to investigate the federal government's role in what a committee is calling a "chemical crisis." The contamination has been tied to use of a toxic firefighting foam at Peterson Air Force Base.

Eddie Newkirk was in the process of moving his mother from Virginia Beach to Scottsdale, Ariz., where he lives, when he learned that his father's signature had appeared on a political petition. The problem was that Floyd Newkirk, a retired Marine and Korean War veteran, died in 2016 at the age of 83.

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has enough submarine maintenance and overhaul work to keep three dry docks busy through 2021, with more on deck after that.

Trump praised the slate of Republican candidates during a fundraising dinner in the nation's premier battleground state and charged Democrats with being unable to govern.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' spokesman says the U.S. decision to cut more than $200 million in aid is meant to force the Palestinians to abandon their claim to Jerusalem.

As the Santa Fe Indian School gymnasium began to fill early Friday morning, one face etched with age stood out. Clemente Otero sat with his U.S. Army veteran baseball cap shading his eyes as the assembly around him rose with cheers and applause.

At least 16 children are among nearly 30 civilians kidnapped by Islamic State militants in southern Syria a month ago and are being used as a "bargaining chip" in negotiations with the Syrian government and its ally Russia, Human Rights Watch said Saturday.

A man who was keeping a grenade launcher, a machine gun and 29 other weapons in an Elgin storage unit pleaded guilty Friday to unlawful weapons possession, the Kane County State's Attorney's Office said.

Domestic violence victims on Fort Bragg will soon be able to apply for protective orders without stepping foot off the installation.

Congressional Democrats and gun control groups were in a furor Thursday over reports that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was considering allowing schools to use federal funds to buy guns for teachers. But the U.S. Department of Education indicated that there was no substance to the reports.

The New York man who was charged with trying to defraud Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was captured Thursday in Ecuador after nearly 3 1/2 years as a fugitive.

The Marine general who branded stories about sexual harassment at his command as "fake news" and joked at a town hall about his sex life defended his remarks as appropriate, according to a Marine Corps internal investigation

The "War to End All Wars" claimed an estimated 40 million military and civilian lives - of which nearly 117,000 were American - and left behind apocalyptic devastation. "Over There" - in the parlance of the famous George M. Cohan song - France was an unimaginable hellscape.

The Democratic Party has begun conversations with television networks about a series of presidential primary debates in 2019, a top party official has told The Associated Press.

Officials from Louisiana parishes are urging the Army Corps of Engineers to pay its share of the estimated cost of a levee project, which has risen from $550 million in 2007 to at least $10 billion after re-evaluations.

A new global study from the British journal The Lancet found that the safest level of drinking is zero, zip, zilch, nada.

After years of planning and construction, students and parents had their first glimpse inside the new Kaiserslautern High School at an open house Friday.

The ex-wife of a Special Forces soldier at Fort Bragg has filed a lawsuit that accuses him and his lover of posting embarrassing “revenge porn” photos of her online because he didn't like paying child support.

Many patients with glioblastoma, which has a poor prognosis, face the difficult decision of when to discontinue therapies.