Новости за 17.09.2019

Democrats controlling the House are keeping a short-term, government-wide spending measure that’s needed to prevent a government shutdown free of controversy, even as President Donald Trump’s Senate Democratic rivals appear set to stall an almost $700 billion Pentagon funding bill on Wednesday in an ongoing fight over his U.S.-Mexico border fence.

U.S. experts are conducting an intense examination of evidence on the ground in Saudi Arabia and reviewing intelligence such as radar tracks from the region, while the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency is working to pull together a public presentation of declassified material.

A defense attorney is seeking a court-ordered psychiatric or psychological exam for a man accused of planning an Islamic State-inspired attack at a shopping and entertainment complex near Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump arrived in California late Tuesday morning amid growing questions over his administration’s plans to get involved in the state’s homelessness crisis.

In an apparent setback for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, exit polls showed the longtime Israeli leader falling short of securing a parliamentary majority with his hard-line allies in Tuesday’s election.

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said Tuesday that 50% of its daily crude oil production that was knocked out by a weekend attack had been restored and that full production is expected by the end of the month.

The U.S. Army is adding more cyber defense teams and intensifying the training required of its high-tech operators to better equip them to take on 21st-century adversaries, the head of U.S. Cyber Command said.

The Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit seeking the proceeds from Edward Snowden's book, alleging the ex-NSA contractor violated non-disclosure agreements he signed with the government by publishing the manuscript without seeking the required approval.

The Army has met its fiscal year 2019 recruiting goal, service officials said Tuesday, crediting a retooled effort focused largely on attracting young men and women through internet applications and in large cities the military had long ignored.

The bulldozers and excavators rushing to install President Donald Trump's border fence could damage or destroy up to 22 archaeological sites within Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in coming months, according to an internal National Park Service report obtained by The Washington Post.

Alabama’s state historical agency apparently will retain control of the last U.S. slave ship, the Clotilda, after no one else laid claim to the wreckage.

Health officials in California confirmed that another patient has died from a vaping-related illness — at least the seventh reported death associated with a national outbreak of serious lung disease related to vaping or using e-cigarettes.

On Sunday morning, Sarah Thomas plunged into the water at Dover, setting out to swim across the English Channel. And then back. And then again. And again. Fifty-four hours and a few minutes later, the breast cancer survivor from Colorado had accomplished a remarkable sports feat, becoming the first person to swim the channel four times in succession

Black Horse Forge is a Stafford County-based nonprofit focused on supporting veterans and first responders. Work at the forge helps participants learn the blacksmithing trade, which includes designing and producing elaborate knives, tomahawks, jewelry and art.

Several Supreme Court justices turned on the lawyer for the government in the case over Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament, demanding a clearer explanation of what the prime minister would do if he lost the case.

Blue sparks and the zap of a welding torch marked the beginning of a new class of U.S. Army landing craft under construction at Vigor Industrial in Vancouver.

The baseline for any agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia will be tougher inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said at briefing in Vienna on Tuesday.

Dale Johnson, 81, and his brothers were chosen this year for Saturday’s Freedom Honor Flight, a daylong trip for veterans to visit military memorials and national monuments in Washington, D.C.

Last time out, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate only fast food for a month. This time, he’s the one dishing out the fried stuff. Spurlock has gone from being an avid Big Mac consumer in “Super Size Me” to serving his own chicken sandwiches in “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” — a sober look at an industry that processes 9 billion animals a year in America.

Fracking is a strategic U.S. asset that tips the balance against a wider Middle East war, though obviously such a catastrophe might come anyway.

Striking the balance between threats and offering the Iranians a way out is the challenge before the administration now.

The 510th Regional Support Group and six subordinate units were activated at Sembach Kaserne.

The Pentagon’s F-35 program office promised $1.2 billion in savings from buying parts and equipment in bulk for Lockheed Martin Corp.’s fighter jet, but it now estimates only about a third of those savings, according a Senate panel.

Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy W. Griffin, 40, died in action Monday in Wardak province.

Army leaders say they expect to sign up more than 68,000 active-duty soldiers for the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, as the service increasingly turns to social media and other new online methods to find potential recruits.