Новости за 16.11.2018

Jared Golden will be among the youngest members of the U.S. House of Representatives if he’s seated following his victory Thursday in a historic ranked-choice election.

President Donald Trump has signed legislation that elevates the importance of cybersecurity work within the Department of Homeland Security.

In a historic vote, more than 50 nations unanimously approved an overhaul of the international measurement system that underpins global trade and other human endeavors, uniting Friday behind new definitions for the kilogram and other units in a way they fail to do on many other issues.

The night started with drinking and watching movies at a friend's off-base townhouse. It ended, after a brief manhunt, when the unarmed Navy Seaman Robert "Colton" Wright was fatally shot inside the F/A-18 E Super Hornet hangar where he worked, according to a Naval Criminal Investigative Service report on his death.

Some 19 soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the 188th Air Defense Artillery Regiment had volunteered to remain in the nation's capital when more than 200 other soldiers with the unit returned in February after nearly a year of service helping provide security for Washington, D.C.

Pushups near the witness stand, rounds of enthusiastic applause and history lessons from the bench: It's no ordinary day in court when hearings just for military veterans take place.

Bright orange sparks bounced off the pavement as a U.S. Army soldier welded metal bars to the border fence in downtown Nogales Thursday morning.

The families of three Green Berets killed by a member of the Jordanian Air Force as they entered a base in Jordan filed a lawsuit against that country’s government, charging it attempted to cover up the incident and slander their fallen sons.

For more than two and a half years, federal officials had been missing from all the public meetings and press conferences held since Newburgh, N.Y. closed its primary water supply due to PFOS contamination, and the state identified Stewart Air National Guard Base as the source of the toxic chemical.

Jeremy Honsowetz a licensed mental health counselor in Vancouver, Wash., is conducting a study on post-traumatic stress disorder, and how veterans seek treatment for it.

House Resolution 2315 would posthumously award each of the four Americans killed in the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the Congressional Gold Medal, one of the highest honors a civilian can receive.

The Defense Department has spent nearly $1 billion on its first agency-wide audit, which has revealed widespread problems with cybersecurity, Pentagon officials said Thursday.

Thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed post-traumatic stress disorder but were denied Veterans Affairs health benefits have been given a green light to sue the military, under a ruling by a federal judge in Connecticut.

The Australian-based developer, Landlease, built the hotel as part of Privatization of Army Lodging, or PAL, program for the Department of Defense, Landlease spokeswoman Lacey Jamison said.

After JAL and ANA group pilots were separately found drinking excessively before flights last month, both companies submitted reports to Japan's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry on Friday, explaining the circumstances and preventive measures.

A lawyer for one purported victim said a French court granted Tariq Ramadan, an Oxford University Islamic studies professor, release on condition he pay 300,000 euros bail, surrender his Swiss passport and remain in France.

The numbers show something that likely doesn’t surprise those who have followed Air Force this year — the offense is essentially the same with Donald Hammond III at quarterback, but much better.

A federal judge in Connecticut has ruled that thousands of Navy and Marine Corps veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who developed post-traumatic stress disorder but were denied Veterans Affairs benefits can sue the military.

Where to get your glow on at light shows and winter illuminations in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea.

Over four decades, as they have built new lives, Jonestown massacre survivors have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. Some have come to acknowledge that they helped enable Jim Jones to seize control over people drawn to his interracial church, socialist preaching and religious hucksterism.

Syria's state news agency and a war monitor say airstrikes on an area controlled by the Islamic State group have killed at least 18 people.

Department of Veterans Affairs officials contended delays in housing payments weren’t causing rampant hardships for student veterans, though they admitted thousands were still waiting for their stipends and the agency had received credible complaints from veterans facing eviction.

The private said that while his infantry troop was training at Fort Riley, a noncommissioned officer slammed his head into the ground several times, causing him a traumatic brain injury and a broken nose

Department of Veterans Affairs officials contended delays in housing payments weren’t causing rampant hardships for student veterans, though they admitted thousands were still waiting for their stipends and the agency had received credible complaints from veterans facing eviction.