Новости за 24.06.2019

Oscar Leonard has been recognized for his 42-month ordeal as a prisoner of war thanks to the efforts of his friends at his local VFW post and Rep. Jerry McNerney.

The U.S. government has removed most of the children from a remote Border Patrol station in Texas following reports that more than 300 children were detained there, caring for each other with inadequate food, water and sanitation.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday began recruiting allies to help outfit tankers and other ships in the Persian Gulf region with cameras that can monitor and corroborate threats from Iran.

Jeremy Brooks Puryear died June 19 after an early-morning crash in Belton, Texas, KWTX reported. The local station said Puryear died after his car went off the roadway and crashed into the fence of a temporary construction storage area.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday targeting Iran’s supreme leader and his associates with financial sanctions, the latest action the U.S. has taken to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons and supporting militant groups.

The International Olympic Committee heard presentations from representatives of the final two countries hoping to be named host of the 2026 Winter Olympics on Monday and chose to award the Games to Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo.

The annual summer solstice -- when the northern pole on our ever-twirling planet achieves its maximum tilt toward the mighty sun -- marks the arrival of the year’s longest day and the year’s shortest night. It’s an enchanted moment, surrounded by many other nearly-as-long days and nearly-as-short nights, a miraculous excess of bright sunlit hours that conspire to push darkness into retreat. And to celebrate this bounty? The birds warble at 5 a.m., your neighbor mows his lawn at 9 p.m., and your kids beg to stay up way too late. Читать дальше...

Thousands of sailors and Marines sailed into 5th Fleet waters Monday as an amphibious assault group led by the USS Boxer deployed to the region, where tensions are flaring between the U.S. and Iran.

Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested Monday morning at his home in West Springfield, Mass., on a fugitive-from-justice charge related to Friday’s crash, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said. Records show he was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving last month and in 2013.

The U.S. Navy will name its newest rescue ship the "Cherokee Nation" to honor the service and contributions the Cherokee people have made to the Navy and Marine Corps, according to a news release.

Courtney Irby spent six days in jail on charges of armed burglary and grand theft after she retrieved the guns from her husband’s apartment and gave them to Lakeland, Fla., police.

Late Monday night, SpaceX will fly its massive Falcon Heavy rocket for just the third time ever. The mission for the branch of the U.S. military is to deliver 24 satellites to space on boosters that are being reused after having flown in the past.

Alla Ausheva, 37, Ivan Walker, 2, and Elia Walker, 3, were found dead Saturday in their Staten Island home. Ausheva, who had come to the U.S. from Russia, became an American citizen during a 2012 White House ceremony.

One of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Donald K. Slayton (known as Deke) became one of the most influential people on the Apollo program: He was the guy who selected the crew for each mission.

Two recent graduates of the Coast Guard Academy are putting their military careers on hold for a chance to compete in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

aliban insurgents warned Monday they will start targeting Afghan journalists unless the media outlets they work for stop broadcasting government-sponsored advertisements speaking out against the group.

Starting later next month, some mid-career and senior servicemembers will be unable to transfer their Post-9/11 GI Bill education benefits to family members.

While DODEA officials are not sharing details, a union representing DODEA educators says cuts will touch nearly every school outside the U.S. and include more than two dozen course offerings across the Pacific and Europe; there will also be a reduction in the number of sections of certain classes and increased class sizes.

While recuperating from back surgery, Beth Rieman had time to think about family, ask questions about her grandmother's Uncle Jim, and eventually uncover an amazing find about the decorated veteran of two world wars.

I am in love with the art and heritage of French bread. Fortunately I’m not alone. Each year one chef is chosen in the Grand Prix de la Baguette de tradition francaise, an accolade bestowed each April for the past 25 years. The winner goes to a handcrafted baguette that beats out dozens of entrants from across Paris and tops a list of 10 finalists; all compete for a cash prize of 4,000 euros ($4,900) and -- most importantly -- mass recognition for superior artisanal baking.

No matter how the current crisis between the United States and Iran turns out, it should have one result: an end to the fear that President Donald Trump would be a warmonger in the Oval Office.

Every new proposal for “dialogue” between the Maduro regime and the opposition simply causes another stampede of refugees for the border, one senior diplomat grimly observed. That mounting mass exodus is the real mover of the crisis.

The dpa news agency quoted the interior ministry of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state as confirming the crash of two Eurofighter jets Monday.

Parliament approved Najah al-Shammari for defense minister, Yassin al-Yassiri as interior minister and Farouq Amin Othman for the post of justice minister.

A statement from Iraqi Counterterrorism Forces on Monday says that during the operation, Iraqi forces received support from warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition.