Новости за 05.09.2015

The National Military Heritage Museum board seized control of its museum Friday in an effort to ensure the institution’s survival.

A lot of effort has gone into thinking — and arguing — about how best to teach math, hoping to keep it from being such a barrier to higher education. But the math problem also has caused leaders of Washington’s community colleges to ask a fundamental question: How much math, and what kind, should be required for a student to earn a college degree?

The Ameri sisters’ work as civilian translators for the U.S. military has made them and their family targets of Taliban attacks. Their lives have seen much hardship over the years trying to forge new lives as United States citizens.

The once-reclusive commander of Tehran’s legendary intelligence gathering and covert war operations across the Middle East and South Asia has lately emerged as a major figure in Iran, with celebritylike status and an outsize presence on the Web.

Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that her family paid a State Department employee to maintain the private email server she used while secretary of state and compensated him "for a period of time" for his technical skills.

An extensive review at one of the nation's premier federal laboratories has turned up violations in how the lab handled hundreds of containers of radioactive waste over the past decade.

Richard Gibian, a decorated World War II fighter pilot who became a Selma, Ala., business leader known throughout America’s candy industry, died Friday after a brief illness. He was 95.

Lawmakers face a weighty list of unfinished business and looming deadlines, including a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open beyond Sept. 30. The most intractable issues — a solution to a yearlong battle over agency budgets and a deal on a long-sought highway bill — have been kicked to the fall.

When Anthony Mayweather wasn't combing through villages seeking out enemy troops, he was browsing the Web looking for Wrestlemania DVDs, TNA flicks and anything else he could have shipped to Iraq. What he didn't know at the time was that one day, some of those DVDs would feature him.

Police in the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan said on Saturday that they have surrounded the area where a former official accused of plotting an attack on a police station is believed to be hiding. Nine police officers and 13 militants were killed in Friday's attack mounted by the disaffected deputy defense minister, police said, updating the previously reported death toll of 17.

Saudi Arabia's military said Saturday that 10 of its troops were killed in a rebel missile strike a day earlier in Yemen, raising the death toll in the attack to at least 55 coalition troops slain.

A teenager who was born female, used the boys' bathroom for seven weeks at a public school in Virginia with no problem. Then parents heard about the teen using the boys' restroom and complained. The school board passed a rule, 6 to 1, that restricts the bathrooms to students of the "corresponding biological genders."

An anti-Nazi song that topped the German charts in the 1990s is back on top. "Scream for Love" is being recirculated as a statement of support for the refugees and against right-wing extremists.

Amid Europe's migrant crisis, Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila is hoping to set an example for his countrymen by opening his own spare house to refugees.

British Prime Minister David Cameron announced Friday that Britain will take in thousands more Syrian refugees amid growing calls for the government to show greater moral leadership in the refugee crisis engulfing Europe.

As people fleeing their homelands braved the risk of drowning to sail north toward Europe this year, Ibrahima Sarr crossed the Mediterranean in the other direction. He came home to Senegal, after almost a decade hawking counterfeit Louis Vuitton handbags on Spain's southern beaches, to fulfill his dream of starting a business.

The aunt of a drowned Syrian boy whose death has sparked global outrage about the plight of refugees in Europe says she still hopes to bring the rest of her family to Canada.

A Navy commander who served as the executive officer of a submarine repair facility in Georgia was relieved of duty on Aug. 24, the Navy announced Monday.

Hillary Rodham Clinton says her use of a private email system at the State Department wasn't the "best choice" and acknowledged she didn't "stop and think" about her email set-up when she became President Barack Obama's secretary of state in 2009.

In September 1944 as World War II raged, Hampton Roads witnessed an astonishing sight: a big B-24 heavy bomber ditching in the James River. The ditching was deliberate, choreographed by Hampton-based aeronautical engineers and the military to demonstrate what was then already well-known to aircrews: A ditched B-24 was a deathtrap.

A new law, effective Oct. 1, requires all Tricare beneficiaries, except active duty service members, to get select brand-name maintenance drugs through Tricare Pharmacy Home Delivery or from a military pharmacy. Beneficiaries who keep using a retail pharmacy for these drugs will have to pay the full cost.

An Ohio National Guardsman from Kettering accused this week of claiming thousands of dollars in mileage reimbursements for area honor guard duty he didn't attend told investigators he was at the funerals secretly observing the soldiers performing the services.

The Army is up to the task of fighting cyberattacks, Georgia's senior U.S. senator says. During a Friday tour of Fort Gordon, Sen. Johnny Isakson said he was confident the Army Cyber Command and related missions remain "on point" in intercepting international hacking operations that have compromised federal databases.

Anti-government violence spread on Saturday in a southern Syrian province that had largely stayed on the sidelines of the country's civil war, a day after the killing of a prominent cleric in rare explosions that claimed the lives of at least 25 others, activists and pro-government media said.

Eddie Graham is a slight man, never fully gaining back his pre-World War II weight of 135 pounds. But being frail hasn't affected his longevity; he turns 98 today.