Новости за 02.09.2015

Almost 900,000 veterans have officially pending applications for health care from the VA, the department's inspector general says, but "serious" problems with enrollment data make it impossible to determine how many vets were actively seeking VA care.

A federal judge laid out a path Wednesday to revive a constitutional challenge to the National Security Agency's domestic telephone records surveillance program, days after a U.S. appeals court ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue.

The Army announced Wednesday that it is opening its legendary Ranger School to women on a full-time basis, following the historic graduation last month of two female soldiers.

Overcoming ferocious opposition, President Barack Obama secured a legacy-defining foreign policy victory Wednesday as Senate Democrats clinched the necessary votes to ensure the Iran nuclear agreement survives in Congress.

When Caitlyn Jenner made the announcement in April of being transgender, messages of support poured in from across the country. Because Jenner was already a rich celebrity, it begged the question: How would other, less famous transgender Americans be treated? On Monday, a small town in Missouri provided an answer.

Thirty years after the Schengen agreement, the plan to do away with Europe's shared border controls, it's clear the agreement has had some unintended consequences and now faces serious criticism.

Eleven migrants thought to be Syrian refugees were feared to have drowned off the coast of the Greek island of Kos on Wednesday after the boats carrying them sank. A number of bodies washed ashore on a beach in the Turkish resort town of Bodrum, probably connected to the disaster.

A couple suing over leaks in the federal investigation that led to CIA Director David Petraeus' resignation intend to subpoena at least two journalists in an attempt to compel testimony about their sources, The Associated Press has learned.

A massive military parade scheduled for Thursday provided the perfect opportunity for Chinese President Xi Jinping to create “good news” to counter the drumbeat of negativity.

Russia said it will retaliate after the United States widened sanctions by targeting more companies, including subsidiaries of state oil producer Rosneft and entities controlled by an ally of President Vladimir Putin.

Betty Robarts didn't know for 50 years she and hundreds of other Navy WAVES working in World War II in Dayton assembled top-secret decoding machines that would spell the end of the Nazi U-boat secrecy under the Atlantic.

It was a heartening moment captured amid overwhelming bleakness: A 3-year-old Hurricane Katrina survivor wrapped her chubby little arms round an Air Force pararescue jumper who had rappelled into New Orleans to save the girl's family from floodwaters. Michael Maroney has never stopped trying to find her. Now, he has.

The Pentagon has sent a team to assess a second site as a possible U.S. replacement for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay as it tries to make good on President Barack Obama’s commitment to close the facility in Cuba before he leaves office.

The Department of Defense mistakenly shipped live anthrax to all 50 states and nine countries, the Pentagon said Tuesday, confirming a much wider breach than it first reported.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasted into space Wednesday morning carrying a Navy communications satellite that will help American troops worldwide have smartphone communications anywhere, any time.

Ernest Hemingway once said that courage was "grace under pressure." Two presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have recently tested this proposition. And how each man responded revealed the type of person he is and the type of president he would make:

Masked men in military uniforms kidnapped 18 Turkish employees of an Ankara-based construction company in Baghdad early Wednesday, bundling them into several SUVs and speeding away, Iraqi and Turkish officials said.

The spontaneous celebrations erupted in mid-August 1945 at news that Japan had surrendered and World War II was over. But the Japanese formally signed their unconditional surrender 70 years ago on Sept. 2, 1945. Pittsburgh had reason to celebrate, historians say, because few regions contributed to the war effort as Western Pennsylvania did.

President Barack Obama secured a landmark foreign policy victory Wednesday as Senate Democrats amassed enough votes to ensure the Iran nuclear deal survives in Congress, despite ferocious opposition from Republicans and the government of Israel.

Much of the blow from Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea fell on Ukraine’s navy, which lost two-thirds of its men, the majority of its ships and its Black Sea port in Sevastopol. The damage remains evident more than a year and a half later, according to U.S. Navy Vice Admiral James Foggo III.

South Korea said it agreed with China to seek a three-way summit with Japan in late October or early November in a step toward easing tensions in the region.

When Marine Jarrod Haschert posted a video asking for Ronda Rousey to accompany him to the Marine Corps Ball, he figured the most that would come of it would be some ribbing from his friends. However, the video went viral, and it is on the verge of paying off in an unimaginable way.

Red Cross volunteers showed their appreciation for 11 soldiers Wednesday at a farewell barbecue for members of the U.S. Army Garrison Wiesbaden Warrior Transition Unit, many of who will move to Kaiserslautern as part of Europe Regional Medical Command’s initiative to consolidate WTUs.

He wasn't called the "Terminator" for nothing. Bosco Ntaganda was one of the most brutal rebel leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The forces he commanded have been implicated in ethnic massacres, rapes, torture, and in recruiting hundreds of children, some as young as seven, to fight on the front lines. He has been wanted for war crimes since 2006.

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