Новости за 28.06.2015

Whipping jump ropes, feet pounding on curved treadmills and agonizing grunts from exhausted athletes filled the Tactical Human Optimization, Rapid Rehabilitation and Reconditioning facility earlier this month. But this time it wasn't the soldiers of the 3rd Special Forces Group.

Army special operations will welcome a new leader this week in a ceremony on Fort Bragg.

Army special operations will welcome a new leader this week in a ceremony on Fort Bragg.

Yes, religious freedom needs protection. But religious liberty doesn’t mean the right to discriminate or to impose one’s views on others.

Bruce Butler feels truly comfortable at one place in the world.

It was April 7, a warm, cloudless early spring day, when Capt. Eric Clements, an instructor pilot with the 8th Flying Training Squadron at Vance Air Force Base, stepped to a T-6A Texan II, tail number 722, for a routine flight. But the flight turned out to be anything but routine.

Federal authorities have warned local law enforcement officials across the country about a heightened concern involving possible terror attacks targeting the July 4th holiday, a U.S. law enforcement official said.

Investigators are searching for one or more accomplices in an attack on a luxury hotel in a Tunisian beach resort that killed at least 38 people, some of them sunbathers on the beach, an official said Sunday.

The risk of military children being enrolled in underperforming schools or schools that have low academic standards has always been a gamble their parents have had to accept.

Forty-one American servicemembers, including three Marines who were left behind, were killed in the battle of Koh Tang, also known as the “Mayaguez Incident.” In May, veterans of the battle returned to the jungle island to carry a message to the U.S. government and the American public: We will never forget.

Simultaneously meeting the resurgent Russian threat, coping with the impact of Islamic extremism and tending to unfinished business in Afghanistan is likely to test the allies.

Silence will not protect my father, and even if he can’t understand or accept why I speak out, I know he is safer in the light of international attention than in the shadows sought by the authoritarians.

The refugee system encourages this game of cat and mouse between states and people fleeing war and persecution.

Across the South, Confederate symbols are toppling, teetering or at least getting critical new looks. But is it a sign of real change in a region known for fiercely defending its complex traditions, or simply the work of frightened politicians and nervous corporate bean counters scrambling for cover in the wake of another white-on-black atrocity?

An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, the third cargo mission to fail in eight months.

Justice Anthony Kennedy’s favorite concept of dignity figured large in the finding that marriage is a fundamental right.

The hostages’ free choice and bravery are not reasons to ignore them when they’re captured. And sympathy for their families is natural. But we need to remember that such abductions are part of the price of doing business in dangerous places.

Rainbows and good cheer will be out in force Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people pack gay pride events from New York City to Seattle, San Francisco to Chicago to celebrate a Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.

Most Americans regret having permitted al-Qaida to establish a sanctuary in Afghanistan in the 1990s. Years from now, we do not want to look back with regret at this time, when the Islamic State is creating its own havens.

An Afghan official says the Islamic State group now has a presence in three provinces but that the government is determined to drive it out.

With little public outreach, the Navy has stealthily put thousands of acres of Puget Sound shoreline and upland off-limits to proposed and future development.

Tunisia's top security official says 1,000 extra police are being deployed at tourist sites and beaches in the North African nation.

Tunisia's postcard destination for tourists is reeling from the terror that blighted another day of play at the Mediterranean seaside resort of Sousse. From accounts of the attack by shocked survivors, tourists who stayed on, lifeguards and beach employees who helped at the site of the massacre emerge stories of love and horror.

The two people arrested for removing the Confederate flag from the front of the South Carolina Statehouse have been released from jail in the state capital.

Fifty years ago, 84 U.S. servicemen boarded an Air Force jet near Irvine bound for war-torn Vietnam, prepared to defend their country. But the men never received their marching orders.