Новости за 05.10.2015

The NFL might soon be pressured for a nearly $7-million donation to the military or veteran charity of its choice.

Edward Snowden says he has offered to return to the United States and go to jail for leaking details of National Security Agency programs to intercept electronic communications data on a vast scale.

Turkey on Monday accused Moscow of violating its airspace when a Russian fighter briefly crossed over the Syrian border, prompting Turkey to scramble two F-16s and NATO to hold emergency talks on possible courses of action.

Buried in the 1,915-page defense policy bill are significant changes that could affect more than 1 million members of the military and their families. Here are some highlights of the defense measure pertaining to members of the armed forces and their families.

Russian and U.S. and coalition aircraft have continued their separate bombing campaigns over Syria in recent days, escalating the risk that miscommunication could lead to unintended collisions.

Director Daniel Barber has a talent for sussing out the brutality intrinsic in the everyday. In 2009’s “Harry Brown,” Michael Caine played a Cockney retiree who avenges his best friend by taking on the hoodlums who live in the same council estate. It was revenge both Caine, and cane, style. In “The Keeping Room,” Barber, working off a script by Julia Hart, explores the violence for those left at home during wartime.

After 70 years, World War II Veteran Irvin “Butch” Johnson was finally presented the Silver Star Medal he earned for his gallantry in action against the enemy. Johnson, 91, also received a Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart and numerous citations during a ceremony Sunday at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church.

The last commander of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii, a 1977 Damien Memorial School graduate, is retiring after a long Air Force career, according to the U.S. military.

Afghan forces who reported being under Taliban fire requested the U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people at a medical clinic in northern Afghanistan over the weekend, the top commander of American and coalition forces in Afghanistan said Monday, correcting an initial U.S. statement that the strike had been launched because U.S. forces were threatened.

Afghan forces requested the airstrike in Kunduz on Saturday that killed 22 at a hospital, Army Gen. John Campbell said Monday, reversing initial reports that U.S. special operations forces were under attack.

In the boot business since 1971, Tom Cartlidge began making custom boots in 1995 and began using his skill in another way just two years ago by crafting custom made cowboy boots for military amputees and other wounded warriors.

Areas of Okinawa, Japan, still contain shallow, unmarked graves 70 years after World War II. For the past 20 years, a group of volunteers has advocated for the search and recovery of remains on the tiny island prefecture — and has performed most of the recovery work themselves.

Applied Research Lab is one of just 13 University Affiliated Research Centers in the country, and of just five that work with the Navy. UARCs are a special category of college research organizations maintaining a “long-term strategic relationship” with the U.S. Department of Defense. Those relationships don’t get much longer in term than Penn State’s.

North Korea is right where it likes to be — in the spotlight. The question is whether the rogue regime can convert its usual high-profile brinkmanship tactics into what it wants.

A year and a half into an ongoing veterans’ health care scandal, President Barack Obama has tapped a Washington lawyer to be the first permanent Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General since 2013.

The Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog is reopening the investigation into efforts by the Secret Service to discredit a congressman who was investigating the agency.

Medical Reserve Corp units in both North Idaho and Eastern Washington are always looking for volunteers who are ready to activate at a moment’s notice. Medical specialists such as mental health workers, dentists and pharmacists are needed, but so are people without medical training.

Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz lashed out Monday against the Obama administration's plan to accept refugees from war-torn Syria, calling it "nothing short of crazy" because he believes some are Islamic State group terrorists.

Carl McVitty was 17 when he and three friends from Roxbury went to a Navy recruiter and enlisted in May of 1944. His older brother, Clyde, had been drafted early in the war and had been killed in action in Italy three months earlier.

A University of Washington law-school student has filed a federal Freedom of Information lawsuit alleging the Central Intelligence Agency has illegally withheld information about an El Salvador Army officer suspected of human-rights violations during that country’s civil war.

U.S. military personnel living in Germany are urged to take a survey this month that could affect cost of living allowance rates paid to troops and their families.

The United States and six other nations kicked off a five-day naval exercise Monday aimed at combating piracy and other crimes in Southeast Asia’s heavily trafficked waters.

Newly installed Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller made some pointed comments regarding women in combat last week, following a public back-and-forth between the Marine Corps and the secretary of the Navy over whether the Marines would allow women into previously closed ground combat roles.

A Japan Air Self-Defense Force sergeant assigned to Yokota Air Base was arrested under suspicion of producing child pornography and violating an ordinance.

As NASA contemplates a manned voyage to Mars and the effects that missions deeper into space could have on astronauts, it's tapping research from another outfit with experience sending people to the deep: the U.S. Navy submarine force.