Новости за 29.10.2015

The coach of a Washington state high school football team who prayed at games despite orders from the school district to stop was placed on paid administrative leave after a group of self-described Satanists said it planned to attend a Thursday game to protest the practice.

On the square outside the former headquarters of the KGB in Moscow, Russians on Thursday read the names of victims of political killings in Soviet times in a 12-hour-long ceremony.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has urged the West to stop isolating Russia, and met with Vladimir Putin on an unusual diplomatic foray.

Russia said Wednesday it opposes a draft U.N. resolution on Syria's use of barrel bombs which is being promoted by France, Britain and Spain because it could jeopardize upcoming international talks on how to restore peace to the conflict-wracked country.

A U.S. polar icebreaker has returned to Seattle after cutting its way to the North Pole in support of a mission to study the health of the Arctic Ocean.

As part of the U.S. military's slow withdrawal from Afghan battlefields, Air Force pararescueman units received an order last year saying those deployed to Afghanistan would consolidate their mission to Bagram, and no longer commonly carry out medical evacuation missions, one squadron commander said.

Flying over this country's capital city, Spec. Robert Godboldt squatted on the rear ramp of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. He spends hours like this most days, flying coalition service members and employees over a metropolis that is both reaching for the future and mired in its 14th year of war.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter has directed the military services to implement new protective measures, including arming more troops, to bolster security at small, off-installation sites in the wake of the deadly attack in Chattanooga.

The Homeland Security Department missed clear warning signs of a disgruntled federal agent's descent toward violence and could have intervened before he started a deadly gun battle inside a government office building in southern California, according to a confidential, internal investigation.

Newsman Ted Koppel is coming to San Diego bearing a prophesy of disaster. The former Nightline anchor is sounding the alarm about the potential for a cyberattack against the U.S. power grid that might leave the country in darkness without power as water, food, fuel and sanitation fade out.

The Navy punished the last of 10 sailors Tuesday for secretly recording, viewing and sharing videos of female shipmates undressing and showering aboard the submarine USS Wyoming.

The Pentagon’s last two budget plans to “reform” the commissary benefit for military families and retirees were driven by a goal to save money, without due regard for preserving the benefit, said a senior defense official who claims to be leading commissary reforms on a less perilous path.

Navy veteran Dean Maiers broke down in tears Wednesday afternoon as he told a panel of senators about his post-deployment struggles, which included a suicide attempt.

Two military schools on Ramstein Air Base are getting a special teacher work day because of extensive computer problems that have hampered the instructors’ ability to track student progress use technology in the classroom and communicate with parents.

The former range manager of the Navy Dare bombing range has pleaded guilty to accepting illegal kickbacks and selling excess government equipment to scrappers.

Republicans and Democrats suffer from a common delusion that there is some magic lever that will make the economy grow if only we elect a president with the vision and iron determination to grab that sucker and pull really hard.

The USS Albuquerque completed its final trip Wednesday when it pulled into Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, where all decommissioned nuclear vessels go to die.

The Navy plans to seek design proposals next month for its top priority, a new fleet of ballistic missile submarines that is expected to create more work at Newport News Shipbuilding.

Dead migrants float belly-up, stripped of their clothing by churning seas. On shore, wailing women search for loved ones among the shivering, wide-eyed survivors. A rescuer tries to revive a toddler who lies unconscious in her sodden striped sweater. While the flow of migrants into Europe tends to abate as winter nears and the journey becomes more dangerous, this year it has only risen.

A military jury made up of officers and enlisted personnel — six men and one woman — found Wright not guilty at Joint Base Andrews, Md., after three hours of deliberation.

The Jade Helm 15 military operation has been reported to be a covert training exercise aimed at refining skills of special operation forces in the South and Southwest regions. The reporting of this exercise has inspired widespread conspiracy theories that the federal government is preparing to instigate martial law. Now, theorists have speculated that the shuttered Wal-Marts will become detention centers for disaffected citizens. Edward A. Ornelas

Norfolk has earned a dreary distinction of late. It's become one of the top destinations around the world for journalists seeking a poster-child city for the perils of sea level rise. But city leaders Wednesday verged on embracing that notoriety with the unveiling of a strategy to tackle the problem harder.

It’s too early talk specifics, but the $80 billion boost in federal spending included in the two-year budget that Congress adopted Wednesday likely includes enough money to prevent debilitating cuts to military and social programs in the Puget Sound region.

Students at military-run schools were among the top performers in this year's national reading and math assessment, known as the "Nation's Report Card."

With a steady drizzle falling on Fort Gordon’s Barton Field, Sgt. Easton Bertelsen took a fistful of ammunition and began his 3.2-mile jog around a now-muddied track.