Новости за 22.07.2015

Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science has been derided as an oppressive eyesore ever since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin built it as a gift to the city. Having survived persistent calls to tear it down — the building marked its 60th birthday on July 22.

The U.S. Army Reserve Center in Warner Robins, Ga. will be named after a local soldier who lost his life in Iraq eight years ago.

Lynette Long is proposing swapping out Confederate general Edmund Kirby Smith’s statue in the U.S. Capitol for one she finds a lot more fitting: Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion of the Everglades.

Senior U.S. health officials have squelched a Food and Drug Administration proposal that for the first time would have curbed dentists’ use of mercury — one of the planet’s nastiest toxins because it attacks the central nervous system — in treating Americans’ decayed teeth.

When a gunman’s car crashed through the gates at the Marine-Navy facility in Chattanooga, Marines rushed room to room to take their colleagues to safety — and some raced back to join the fight.

“Whispering Willows” is an eye-pleasing, simplistic puzzle adventure game, that proves its worth as easy entry point for newcomers the genre.

Somewhere in the thousands of towering apartment blocks that ring the Russian capital, whistle-blower Edward Snowden remains in hiding two years after outraging U.S. intelligence agencies with revelations of their snooping into the private communications of millions of ordinary citizens.

Where the Charleston shooting had stirred soul-searching over the place of the Confederate flag in America, the Chattanooga massacre risks turning the Stars and Stripes into a political punching bag. Partially obscured by the controversy is the reason why the flag is lowered in the first place.

At the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Pittsburgh this week, commanders and rank and file said they realize that resistance to change needs to change, or the shrinking organization could lose the newest generation of veterans and risk withering into obscurity.

About 350 designs have been submitted for a new national monument to honor those who served in World War I, but the funds to make it happen have yet to be raised.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching a comprehensive review of how it regulates safety and security at bioterror labs in the wake of an ongoing USA TODAY Media Network investigation that has prompted congressional probes into the agency's effectiveness.

The Army has warned its recruiters to treat the gun-toting civilians gathering at centers across the country in the wake of the Chattanooga, Tenn., shooting as a security threat.

More than 40 years after fighting in Vietnam, about 11 percent of combat veterans still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study finds, and far more of them are getting worse than are getting better.

If you’ve ever wondered what might have happened to Job if had a strong left hook, “Southpaw” may be the film for you.

John McCain never caved in to the goons who tortured him in North Vietnam. But he showed considerably less character by giving in to the nativists who have bullied him in the last decade.

Donald Trump can’t help himself. Nor can we. The “worse” he gets, it seems, the better we like it.

House lawmakers said Wednesday they felt forced to fill a $3 billion budget hole at the Department of Veterans Affairs that could halt outside health care treatment at the end of the month and shutter hospitals and clinics after Aug. 20.

The massive shortfall in the Department of Veterans Affairs annual budget could force the agency to halt outside health care treatment at the end of the month and all hospital treatment next month, the agency told House lawmakers Wednesday.

Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno has told Fox News that the U.S. could have prevented the rise of the Islamic State if it had remained fully engaged in Iraq rather than remove all its troops at the end of 2011.

Is Iran more like North Korea or Libya? That is the question politicians and the public must ask themselves as they consider President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal.

There's no need for psychiatric intervention just quite yet, but the mighty Marvel movie empire is showing definite signs of having a split personality.

The jihadist group has seized the chance to emulate its Islamic State spinoff by holding territory and governing it.

Forty-five features into his half-century of moviemaking, the rote obsessions distinguishing Woody Allen's furtive protagonists -- luck, fate, chance, getting away with murder -- have extended more and more to Allen's own approach to screenwriting.

A partially burned American flag was found early Tuesday on a statue at Colorado Springs City Hall, according to police.

The Chicago-based company on Wednesday posted a $1.11 billion net profit, down from $1.65 billion during the same period last year.