Новости за 14.11.2018

With head bowed and fully shackled, confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz appeared in court Wednesday afternoon to face more charges for fighting with a deputy in a Broward County jail.

It wasn't your typical bilateral meeting here at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence called upon Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to pardon two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar and to protect the Rohingya, Muslim victims of a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign by the Myanmar military.

Pfc. Jordan Wilson and Alexis Espinoza Padilla stood 500 miles apart in separate worlds, and yet undeniably were linked by practical and geopolitical forces.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday lifted sanctions imposed on Eritrea nine years ago, rewarding its improved relations with Ethiopia and other neighboring countries, though concerns about its human rights record remain.

Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern who infamously had an affair with former President Bill Clinton, wrote that she was interviewed for a documentary called "The Clinton Affair" for more than 20 hours, a process that required her to recall memories she wishes she could erase.

The Government Accountability Office has ruled against a bid protest filed by software giant Oracle, which had taken issue with a Defense Department decision to go to a single company for its $10 billion cloud computing effort.

Devastation left by Hurricane Michael in Florida’s Panhandle last month evoked comparisons to Hurricane Andrew in South Florida 26 years earlier, but business experts don’t expect Michael’s aftermath to be nearly as disruptive beyond the destruction zone.

Widespread information technology problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs continue to affect thousands of student veterans who have gone without housing payments months into the fall semester.

Signaling zero tolerance for economic crimes, Iran hanged two financial traders who were convicted of stockpiling gold coins and profiteering during a currency crisis, state media reported Wednesday.

Japan is in the midst of revising its cybersecurity laws ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. However, a Cabinet minister who is supposed to be shaping these laws made a surprising admission this week: He doesn't use a computer.

The little girl was so adored by Adolf Hitler that his personal photographer frequently snapped pictures of the two them holding hands, exchanging kisses on the cheek, or just smiling at each other. Hitler refused to cut off contact with her even after he was told she had a Jewish grandmother.

Last week, a record-breaking 102 women were elected to the House of Representatives. That historic number includes a handful of female veterans and other service candidates, many of whom befriended each other on the campaign trail, fundraised together and ultimately dubbed themselves “The Badasses.”

A former death row inmate heaped praise on his own legal skills Tuesday after federal prosecutors dropped their sex trafficking case, which also involved a Schofield Barracks soldier, against him.

A former death row inmate heaped praise on his own legal skills Tuesday after federal prosecutors dropped their sex trafficking case against him.

Naval Special Warfare plans to triple the amount of small-unit intermediate and advanced training conducted by SEALs and other special operations forces on non-federal lands in Hawaii, with overall training expanding from Oahu and Hawaii island to Kauai, Maui, Molokai and Lanai.

Congress isn't expected to pass legislation ordering new U.S. sanctions on Russia before the end of the year, as lawmakers focus instead on government spending measures, judicial nominations and a farm bill, key senators said.

The Justice Department released a memorandum Wednesday defending the legality of President Donald Trump appointing Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general - rejecting criticism from some lawyers that the move violates the Constitution.

As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.

Airmen leaving for yearlong deployments will no longer have to return before moving their goods and families to their next permanent duty station.

Austin Tice, a freelance journalist and Marine veteran, was taken prisoner in 2012 while reporting on the civil war in Syria. The U.S. government says he is still alive.

A taxi driver told Portuguese police that two American sailors assaulted him and took his phone after he picked them up in Lisbon, the Portuguese news outlet Cofina Media reported.

Discussions are moving forward on Poland's offer of $2 billion to help fund an American base where troops and their families could be stationed on a permanent basis.

A bipartisan commission created to evaluate the 2018 National Defense Strategy found that the United States has lost its military edge to "a dangerous degree."

Navy ships arrived at Brunei’s Muara Naval Base this week for the next leg of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training, which will include operations in the hotly contested South China Sea.

Jason Hobbie was arrested Oct. 18. He is now the fourth suspect and second U.S. military veteran being held in the death of a 43-year-old Canadian man killed and dismembered with machetes on Taiwan.