Новости за 19.08.2015

Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document.

The family gathered at the Pentagon for a private briefing on how an Afghan soldier fatally shot their loved one, Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, the highest-ranking American officer killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War. Among the conclusions: The shooting could not have been foreseen or prevented, and there was no negligence on the part of any military leader. Family members were furious.

“Boots to Business” is part of a push to better prepare troops for life after the military and improve the Transition Assistance Program, the target of many a veteran eye roll for its previously superficial approach to ready troops for the civilian world.

Organizers from the WWI Centennial Commission, which launched the design competition in May, are finding themselves battling those up in arms over the site of the new memorial.

Marines may be the tip of the spear in battle, but not so much when it comes to bringing women into the ranks.

Watch him work and you will recognize Mike George is a sculptor. Using his hands and a few simple tools, he converts what to most looks like a multi-colored blob into highly-detailed figures. His medium is dyed deer hair. His creations are fishing flies with “omigosh” realism.

First the power goes out. It's not clear what's gone wrong, but cars are starting to jam the streets — the traffic light are down. And something seems to be going haywire with the subways, too. Of course, that hasn't happened yet, but it may not be as crazy as it sounds.

A Civil War battle re-enactment at a historic South Carolina planation has been canceled in the wake of the shooting deaths of nine black parishioners at a Charleston church in June.

The likably awkward chemistry of Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg remains intact in “American Ultra,” a violent stoner action-comedy that’s half “Pineapple Express,” half “The Bourne Identity,” and not as good as either.

An armed member of a volunteer group guarding an Oklahoma gun store that recently declared itself "Muslim-free" has accidentally shot himself, according to local media.

It's not only about the theft of information, it's also about the potential manipulation of personal data. Records can be changed to make a federal employee appear less trustworthy or possibly destroyed to make a person disappear, at least in the computer files.

The Confederate flag was on the run earlier this summer. It was coming down everywhere. National retailers stopped selling it. South Carolina's legislature ordered it removed from the state capitol grounds. Momentum swelled across a nation horrified by a neo-Confederate killing nine African-Americans in a historic church in South Carolina.

Aircraft firefighting efforts were recently delayed in the Cajon Pass area because as many as five drones flew around the blaze, an official told a California legislative hearing this week.

“This shows that not allowing somebody to do something because of gender is ridiculous,” says Army veteran Laura Westley. “There are women who served in the past who would have loved this opportunity, but it never came about. It’s about damn time.”

State efforts to attract military retirees to Ohio have proven to be more expensive than original projections, but supporters of the initiative say such tax incentives pay off in the long run.

A regional court in Russia sentenced an Estonian officer to 15 years in prison Wednesday in a murky espionage case that seemed ripped from the headlines of the Cold War.

“There are more 26,000 direct and indirect jobs tied to the F-35 program in California ...” said Robert L. Rubino, director U.S. Navy F-35 program for Lockheed Martin. The F-35 program has more than 1,300 suppliers in 44 states and Puerto Rico.

For more than 120 days, Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver have ground it out at Ranger School, the Army's famously difficult school designed to build elite leaders capable of withstanding the rigors of combat. On Friday, the two women will become the first female soldiers ever to graduate from the course at Fort Benning, Ga.

The Air Force is taking seriously the latest threats by the Islamic State group against U.S. airmen in the United Kingdom but has not issued any travel restrictions or raised force-protection levels, officials said Wednesday.

The issue of offshore drilling came up for discussion for the first time since 2010, when the council voted to endorse a plan by then-Gov. Bob McDonnell to open up the shoreline to offshore oil rigs.

As all good spies are trained to do, Audun Fredriksen took most of his secrets with him when he died. “He did extraordinary things, thinking they were ordinary,” said his son, Stephen Fredriksen. “He was humble about it.”

An Akron woman is hoping to recover her husband’s military gear stolen by thieves who targeted storage units over the weekend. Leah Kieffer says the items collected by Justin Kieffer, 31, were to be a legacy for the couple’s young children, Brooke 4, and Seth, 11 months.

A man in the Ozarks who built a patio out of what he said were discarded military headstones found in a landfill told a TV station on Tuesday that he will remove it.

The graduation this week of two female soldiers from the Army's famously difficult Ranger School has added new pressure on the U.S. military to make women eligible to serve across its combat ranks, current and former U.S. officials said.

The Air Force says an unarmed Minuteman 3 missile was launched from California in a test of the intercontinental ballistic missile system.