Новости за 02.07.2015

A newfound friend of social equality, the court may yet remain the handmaiden of our rising economic inequality.

South Florida has never felt the burst of a rocket's red glare, but it has seen plenty of gunfire and torpedoes.

The average life span of a B-24 Liberator bomber crew in World War II was approximately nine missions, said Bill Wall, who completed 37.

I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching this week, trying to figure out why the legalization of same-sex marriage has administered such an emotional sucker punch to my solar plexus.

Most people forget the federal prison camp on Maxwell Air Force base until someone from the Watergate scandal, the owners of Studio 54, a former Enron CEO or other well-known political officials, judges or athletes receive national attention when they are confined there.

The Confederates won with the pen (and the noose) what they could not win on the battlefield: the cause of white supremacy and the dominant understanding of what the war was all about.

Yemeni security officials say the Saudi-led coalition has targeted encampments of Shiite rebels and their allies in the country's capital, Sanaa, and that eight people were killed in the airstrikes.

The script for “Terminator Genisys” called for a young Arnold Schwarzenegger to battle an older version of himself. Director Alan Taylor wasn’t worried about creating the young version as much as he was about getting Schwarzenegger on board with playing the older Terminator.

The U.S. Air Force has canceled 4th of July events in Britain due to “local threat assessments,” it was announced Thursday.

Gov. Bill Walker has made official Alaska's intent to change the name of a census area named for confederate military officer Wade Hampton.

The U.S. Navy is tripling the amount of paid maternity leave that female sailors and Marines can take after the birth of a child, and will now provide a total of 18 weeks off.

The CIA has paid more than $10 million to a management consulting firm advising senior U.S. intelligence officials on a broad reorganization that agency Director John Brennan began earlier this year, current and former U.S. officials said.

Joe Manganiello ordered the porterhouse steak for two, the waiter walked away, only to hear actor Kevin Nash snap his fingers to get his attention.

An Islamic State sympathizer's deadly bombing in a packed Kuwaiti mosque last week was designed to fit an all-too-familiar pattern: extremists attack Shiites to stoke sectarian hatred and then proclaim themselves the defenders of Sunnis against those they denounce as heretics.

Confrontations over disputed islands in the South China Sea have been going on for so many years it’s hard to keep track of the succession of standoffs, skirmishes and withdrawals — not to mention the wars of words.

A Mexican human rights group said Thursday that military documents show high-ranking officers had given soldiers standing orders to kill criminals ahead of an army mass slaying of suspected drug cartel members after they surrendered.

Today, U.S. spying is being exposed with disturbing frequency. The continuing embarrassments regarding snoops and surveillance are worthy of the legendary comically inept operative Inspector Clouseau.

The ayatollah may believe the P5+1 will blame the United States if the talks halt and will break ranks on sanctions. But this isn’t likely to be the case.

A federal judge in Utah has awarded a $134.2 million default judgment in a lawsuit filed on behalf of two American soldiers against a Canadian man who pleaded guilty to committing war crimes when he was 15.

Bomber pilot Lt. Gen. Timothy M. Ray took the controls of the 3rd Air Force at a change-of-command ceremony Thursday, pledging his “utmost leadership” to the approximately 33,000 airmen in his new command.

It's an iconic image: A sailor kisses a nurse in Times Square after hearing the news that World War II was officially over — just after 7 p.m. on August 14, 1945. Or maybe not. Some skeptics are now challenging that widely accepted story.

Investigators found no evidence of a shooting after the Washington Navy Yard went on lockdown Thursday because someone reported shots fired in the same building where a gunman killed 12 workers in a rampage two years ago.

As the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency exhumes the commingled remains of 388 sailors and Marines from the USS Oklahoma who are buried in Hawaii as unknowns, some outside experts are skeptical that DPAA scientists will be able to identify them based on outdated DNA testing methods.

About 12 people have been detained in the investigation into a massacre at a beach resort that killed 38 people, mostly British tourists, a Tunisian official said.

An Afghan court has overturned the death sentences for four men convicted of taking part in the shocking mob killing of a woman outside a Kabul shrine, a judge said Thursday.