Новости за 10.11.2019

Oracle is pressing forward with a long-running legal challenge to the Pentagon’s massive cloud computing contract, its third such attempt to upend the procurement since the project was announced 18 months ago.

A week removed from his 100th birthday, former soldier Arthur Wood, a decorated infantryman, is less confident about his mission this Veterans Day: delivering the keynote speech at his senior living community in Dallas.

As many as 600 U.S. troops will remain in northeastern Syria to continue counterterrorism operations against Islamic State militants, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday.

President Donald Trump’s national security adviser says Trump will confront Turkey’s leader about his decision to buy a Russian air defense system when they meet Wednesday at the White House.

Two of President Donald Trump’s senior advisers undermined and ignored him in what they claimed was an effort to “save the country,” former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley claims in a new memoir.

Police in the Russian city of St. Petersburg plan to interrogate a prominent professor who has been detained on suspicion of killing a female student after he was pulled from a frigid river with a backpack containing severed arms.

On Nov. 1, 1952, after watching an island get vaporized by the world's first hydrogen bomb, Alan Jones and the crew on the research vessel Horizon were doused in a shower of radioactive fallout.

Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country’s south with more than 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country’s proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over U.S. sanctions.

Iran began pouring concrete Sunday for a second nuclear reactor at its Bushehr power plant, a facility Tehran points to as its reason to break the enrichment limit set by its unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.

The ministry said Sunday that 20 people were also injured in the attack in the village of Salik Atik, south of Tal Abyad.

Staff Sgt. Cole N. Condiff, 29, was a special tactics combat controller with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, according to a release issued Saturday.

Lavelle Scottie had 15 points and eight rebounds for Air Force (1-1). A.J. Walker added 12 points.

Cam Davis scored 14 and Greg Summers added 13 for Navy, which evened its record after falling to George Mason in overtime three days earlier.

Chris Mann had 16 points and nine rebounds for Army (1-1). Tommy Funk added 11 points and seven rebounds.

The Black Knights quickly recovered from an early gaffe against UMass (1-9), whose only victory came against winless Akron in late September.

Only a few dozen Phantoms remain in active service around the world out of 5,195 built during a 20-year production run that started in the 1950s.

Founded in 2017, the State Funeral for World War II Veterans wants President Donald Trump to approve a state funeral for the last living Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, only two of whom remain alive.

Officials say three trains were involved in a derailment in western Pennsylvania, prompting cancellation of rail service between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, but no injuries were reported.

The 22-year-old 1st Lt. Joseph Finneran was shot down north of Bucharest, Romania on Aug. 1, 1943 during a bombing mission. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and other military honors.

Wildfires razing Australia's drought-stricken east coast have left three people dead, several missing and dozens injured, with over 150 homes destroyed, officials said Saturday.

A week after receiving the nation's highest military honor for his heroism during a battle in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Matthew Williams was in the auditorium at Putnam City West High School on Friday fielding students' questions about whether he had been scared, how he felt about killing people and whether he was happy.

After previous oversight hearings backfired, the House Intelligence Committee hopes to do what other panels failed to do in their investigations of President Trump: deliver a dramatic rendering of the facts that make clear how Trump's actions represent abuses of power that are considered high crimes and misdemeanors.