Новости за 09.08.2015

The superintendent of Fort Bragg schools, Dr. Emily Marsh, has been named the acting director of the Department of Defense Education Activity operations in the Americas.

There are plenty of families in New Mexico who have shared experiences of growing up in the military. A special exhibit at the Special Collections Library’s Botts Hall chronicles those families who were based in locations around the world.

Living without Marine Lance Cpl. Michael J. Cifuentes isn’t any easier now than it was 10 years ago, when his family on Aug. 3, 2005, learned he had been killed in Iraq.

President Barack Obama stood by his charge that Iranian hard-liners are making “common cause” with Republican lawmakers in opposing the nuclear deal with Iran, insisting that such an accusation “is absolutely true, factually.”

I was spending a week in the Great Smoky Mountains, looking ahead days of camping, white-water rafting, canoeing and swimming in a genuine swimming hole. It sounds like a dream vacation, right? Just one catch: I was chaperoning 34 teenagers. For six days.

About 54,000 veterans and their family members are buried on the 84-acre property near downtown at Paseo de Peralta and Guadalupe Street. Some of their headstones have no story to tell, such as the more than 300 that are marked “Unknown U.S. Soldier.”

As the war expands and our troops risk their lives far from home, a tacit agreement to avoid debating this war persists in Washington.

It might have been the most supported yet beleaguered bill in the history of the Colorado General Assembly.

Putin today displays an open contempt for Russian public opinions and an uncaring disregard for the economy-damaging sanctions and international disapproval that his Ukraine adventure has provoked, traits that befit a drunken gambler.

A year after tens of thousands of Iraqi Christians fled communities overtaken by Islamic State militants, their lives are on hold in exile: They won't go back to Iraq, saying it's not safe for Christians, but as refugees they're barred from working in temporary asylum countries such as Jordan.

The newest general in the British army is an American from Fort Carson.

Maybe the polls will prove me wrong, but I didn’t think the night actually went well for Trump.

Employees are tweeting their salaries using the hashtag #talkpay as a way, they say, to improve pay inequity. Some are working with colleagues on creating internal compensation spreadsheets.

The Republican Party, partially but not entirely thanks to Donald Trump, just gave us perhaps the most entertaining debate in presidential primary history. And it also showcased a field of talented politicians. But the problem is that everything was within a framework of a still-broken party.

His punishment should have been far worse to match the damage he’s done to journalism.

Singapore threw a big party Sunday for its 50th anniversary of independence and unrivaled economic success in a region struggling with poverty and political instability, even as the city-state began feeling the pinch of a midlife crisis.

It's been more than a year since Ian Michael Curtis committed suicide, but the people who loved him still struggle to understand why. They all have theories about what drove him to take his own life. Some think it was an accident, a spur-of-the-moment mistake. Others say it was the drinking, and everyone cites the horrors of war.

Baseera Sultani wants to go home to her child and husband. But she still doesn’t know what kind of home it will be. As the war in Afghanistan fades from the world scene, stories like Sultani’s are quickly drowned out. But even without spectacular attacks, the toll on everyday Afghans is higher than ever.

It was likely a relic of the military base located in Thurmont, about 65 miles northwest of Baltimore, several decades ago.

This brings to five the number of Emirati officers killed in battle since March, when the UAE and other Arab countries launched an offensive against the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis.

A half dozen F-16s and about 300 airmen from the 31st Fighter Wing have deployed to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey where they’re expected to conduct airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq.

Retired airman recalls taking players to museums, disco and masquerading as Rick Pitino.

The annual Back-to-School Brigade event is in its ninth year and is expected to give away 40,000 book bags nationwide.

He was a seaman aboard the seaplane tender USS Curtiss. Anchored about 20 miles from Eniwetok Atoll in the western Pacific Ocean where Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton thermonuclear device, was detonated.

A history buff, Benjamin Bradin, who died in 1982, collected lots of mementos on his way to Germany.