Новости за 30.08.2019

An increasingly alarming Hurricane Dorian menaced a corridor of some 10 million people — and put Walt Disney World and President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in the crosshairs — as it steamed toward Florida on Friday with the potential to become the most powerful storm to hit the state's east coast in nearly 30 years.

A social media post was evidence that Everett Glenn Miller’s view of law enforcement and his community had dramatically changed after his retirement from a two-decade military career in the Marine Corps, State Attorney Brad King told jurors Friday.

Three Lithuanian units swept the top spots in this year’s International Best Squad Competition, outperforming 13 other teams that included a U.S. Army contingent, officials said Friday.

For the last 15 years, the act of one Weymouth, Mass. couple sending small gifts to their military son-in-law has evolved into a large-scale volunteer operation that turns nonperishable food items, toiletries, small games and more into thousands of care packages for American servicemembers stationed all over the world.

A Marine with the 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment was left paralyzed after being shot during a live-fire training mishap at Twentynine Palms, Calif., according to the Navy and Marine Corps.

At least 155 migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa successfully entered the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after climbing over fences or walking across a border post separating the territory from Morocco, authorities said Friday.

Vice President Mike Pence weighed in on a First-Amendment lawsuit challenging a Bible on display at a New Hampshire veterans hospital, saying under the current administration, "VA hospitals will not be religion-free zones."

Senior back Kein Artero shredded the outmanned Panthers defense for four touchdown runs as the Friars scored 47 straight points.

Why do we name our babies before they are born? Before we know their character traits, individual personalities, propensities and proficiencies?

An American servicemember was killed in action Thursday in Afghanistan, the 15th U.S. combat casualty in that country this year as the Pentagon prepares to draw down its force strength there, after 18 years of war.

Although the Pentagon has not yet officially released the soldier’s name, he was identified Friday as Sgt. 1st Class Dustin Ard on the Facebook page of Idaho State Rep. Rod Furniss.

In the past four years, Toni and Peter Farmer have visited France, England, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Switzerland and Australia, as well as a number of cities in the United States. For the most part, they haven’t paid a dime for accommodations. That’s because the two decided, in their retirement, to become housesitters.

With the storm's track still unclear, no immediate mass evacuations were ordered. Along Florida's east coast, local governments began distributing sandbags, shoppers rushed to stock up on food, plywood and other emergency supplies.

U.S. B-2 stealth bombers trained with British F-35 Lightning II jets this week, marking the first time the Air Force aircraft have operated with those fighters from an allied nation, officials said Friday.

Robert Morris Levy's supervisors failed to heed early warnings that he was endangering patients and then were slow to act, according to internal VA documents, court filings and interviews with 20 congressional officials, veterans and current and former VA employees.

See how we sift and scroll through these endless TV menus and grids, scoffing at what the algorithms recommend, defaulting yet again to old sitcom reruns and an episode of "Beachfront Bargain Hunt" that we’re never quite sure if we’ve seen before. In theory we want to be swept up in something new, but we’re sometimes not very good about trying new things. Sometimes the biggest challenge is a genre bias -- to watch a show that looks unbearably hokey. Too elfy, too childish, too derivative.

If you want to break away from the crowds that make Venice a poster child for the term “overtourism” and you love architecture, there is one place you must go: nearby Vicenza, a showcase for the work of the renowned Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. Palladio, who lived from 1508 to 1580, drew inspiration from the architecture of ancient Greece and Rome, transforming these models into masterpieces that influenced everything from English country houses to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.

Sweden's foreign minister said Friday she was heading to the Middle East in an attempt to relaunch talks between Yemen's internationally recognized government and the country's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

An Air Force pararescueman was awarded a Bronze Star with valor this week, following several surgeries and months of efforts to get back on duty after being seriously wounded in Afghanistan last year.

The family of Mary Jo Kopechne has decided to auction off a letter sent by boxing legend Muhammad Ali to Mary Jo’s parents in which Ali urges them to sue Sen. Ted Kennedy.

Poland's defense minister says six locations for additional U.S. troops have been agreed on with Washington and talks continue on one more site.

Japan’s Defense Ministry on Friday requested its largest-ever budget and the seventh consecutive spending hike since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office in 2012.

The Marine Corps Force Fitness Division has been asking Marines and the civilians who work with them for ideas for possible changes to the Corps’ physical fitness programs.

A Super Stallion based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma reportedly lost a 2-pound Plexiglas window during a routine flight, according to an official.

Released Thursday, the Japan Transport Safety Board’s findings echo a U.S. Navy report from late 2017 saying the accident was “preventable” and that the destroyer’s watch standers contributed to the incident.