Новости за 23.09.2015

The 737 completion work — installing interiors and painting the planes — is done today in the Seattle area, and advance reports of the deal prompted the Machinists union to organize protests outside Seattle-area plants Wednesday.

Cmdr. Burt J. Canfield took over as a commanding officer of the USS John Warner during a ceremony Friday, the Navy said.

Yogi Berra, whose uncommon gifts as a player and common man’s persona made him a legendary figure in Yankees history and delighted generations of baseball fans, has died at the age of 90.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said Tuesday that hope remains that lawmakers will strike a deal to fund the government when the fiscal year ends Sept. 30 and insisted the situation was not yet dire enough to warn defense employees of the potential fallout.

The Wall Street Journal reports the advanced, but troubled plane will kick off the long series of test flights from Boeing's Paine Field in Everett, WA that are expected to last at least four months.

Iraq, which is already facing a prolonged battled against the Islamic State group and mass protests against government corruption and inefficiency, is now struggling with a new challenge: a growing cholera outbreak.

Tests of shipboard systems onboard the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford are taking longer than expected, and it will delay sea trials by several weeks, the Navy said Tuesday.

The world of Nancy Meyers sure is beautiful.But her studied production design and dreamy interiors have become such a focal point, that they’ve almost eclipsed her storytelling. It marginalizes what she does, and how she has, from “The Parent Trap” to “It’s Complicated,” created her own lovely and implausible cottage industry of movies that are, for the most part, exceedingly pleasant to watch.

Tuesday marked Adm. John Richardson's second working day as chief of naval operations, and he chose to spend it with the fleet in Norfolk hearing from sailors about what issues concern them.

Bell and Lockheed Martin are competing against a Boeing and Sikorsky team in the Department of Defense’s Future Vertical Lift program. The program aims to replace about 2,000 medium-class utility and attack helicopters in the Army’s fleet.

Waterfowl hunting has been 84-year-old Orville Johnson’s passion. Which is why an unusual early-season Canada goose hunt for veterans — dubbed Waterfowl for Warriors — was so special.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed legislation Tuesday urging the city to build a memorial honoring an estimated 200,000 women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during World War II — but did so only following a flurry of last-minute tweaking.

The wife of a military veteran who went into kidney failure less than two weeks after being prescribed a medication at the Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs Medical Center has filed a lawsuit alleging medical malpractice.

Though only a short stretch of Little Rock's Confederate Boulevard remains, to some it is a glaring reminder of the city's checkered racial past.

The German broadcaster ZDF claimed in a report aired Tuesday that the U.S. was poised to deploy new nuclear weapons to a base in western Germany later this year.

Plunging headlong into the issues of the day, Pope Francis opened his visit to the United States with a strong call Wednesday for action to combat climate change, calling it a problem that "can no longer be left to a future generation."

The number of people applying for or receiving security clearances whose fingerprint images were stolen in one of the worst government data breaches is now believed to be 5.6 million, not 1.1 million as first thought, the Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday.

An Oklahoma congressman and combat veteran has demanded that the Secretary of the Army produce paperwork documenting the performance of the women who recently graduated Ranger School.

An Oklahoma congressman and combat veteran has demanded that the Secretary of the Army produce paperwork documenting the performance of the women who recently graduated Ranger School.

A NATO servicemember from the Republic of Georgia has been killed in an insurgent attack near Bagram Air Field, military officials said Wednesday.

Egypt has agreed to buy two assault ships from France, the French government said Wednesday, dramatically increasing its capabilities on- and off-shore as the country tries to assume a more prominent role against Islamic State militants.

China's president Xi Jinping told a packed room of dignitaries and business leaders that his nation wants to build a level playing field for all companies doing business there and will work with the U.S. to fight cybercrime.

The Kremlin says Russia will take countermeasures if the U.S. places new nuclear weapons at a base in Germany.

Interviews and a document obtained by The Associated Press show that Turkish officials have tentatively begun enforcing long-dormant rules governing Syrians' travel within the country.

U.S.-trained rebels who recently returned to Syria said Wednesday they have lost contact with one of their officers and that they are investigating reports that he defected and handed over his weapons to al-Qaida's branch in the country.