Новости за 21.01.2016

Wenatchee Wild hockey player Mike Coyne is switching uniforms. Coyne officially committed to play hockey for the United States Military Academy. After his four years in West Point, N.Y., Coyne will serve in the Army for at least five years.

On the heels of a trade mission to Israel, Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday told officials with the state's retirement funds to maintain bans on investing in companies that do business with Iran, despite the nuclear pact orchestrated by President Barack Obama that is lifting economic sanctions against the Persian Gulf nation.

In a bold move Thursday before the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Secretary Bob McDonald identified 12 “breakthrough priorities” that the VA will accomplish by the end of 2016.

An ex-Marine accused in the New Year's Day fatal shooting of a college student in Texas has been arraigned on a murder charge after being returned from Arizona.

American troops were serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan five years ago when President Barack Obama signed the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act, a comprehensive piece of legislation acknowledging the critical role of caregivers for seriously injured post- 9/11 veterans.

For years, Steve and Emma Ligeikis as well as a long line of doctors have been fighting to unlock the mysteries of Steve’s brain, to find out why the Army veteran stopped recording even the most rudimentary new memories — what he had for breakfast yesterday, whether he has seen this TV show before, how old he is today.

Top NATO brass on Thursday agreed on changes to recommend in the alliance's force posture and decision-making procedures to better deal with a more aggressive Russia and other evolving security threats.

To uncover the true identity and location of a suspected web user viewing child porn, the FBI placed computer code, or malware, on all computers that logged into a certain site. When the suspect connected, the malware exploited a flaw in his browser, forcing his computer to reveal its true Internet protocol address.

Fort Bragg soldier Johnny Charlestin was a $2 million winner in the Powerball drawing of the N.C. Education Lottery.

President Barack Obama’s nominee to be the next Army secretary told the Senate on Thursday that he would reverse plans to shed 40,000 soldiers during the next two years.

An F-16 fighter jet from Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix crashed Thursday in a remote area of northwestern Arizona and officials said there was no immediate word on the fate of the pilot.

The effort to find and rescue Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl after he was taken to Pakistan was understaffed and disorganized, hampered by competing interests, lack of interest and disdain for the soldier “up and down the chain of command,” according to the fifth installment aired Thursday of the podcast “Serial.”

We can’t and shouldn’t try and evaluate Track Palin’s mental state as amateurs from thousands of miles away, of course. The idea that a veteran could be prone to violence after his service, though, is hardly a stretch.

Over time, U.S. presidential elections have evolved into a sports event, and that has affected the self-selection of candidates.

After not filling the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System’s top job for over a year after the prior director was fired following the Legionnaires’ outbreak, the director the VA finally hired said Wednesday she may only be here for a couple of years because she is nearing retirement.

An international court on Thursday sentenced a leading Kosovo Serb politician to nine years in prison for war crimes against ethnic Albanian civilians — a ruling that could heighten tensions in the Balkan region and prompted Belgrade to start reconsidering its EU-mediated reconciliation talks with Pristina.

The Obama administration's nominee to be the Army's top civilian official said Thursday he is worried about plans to reduce the Army's size to about 450,000 active-duty troops.

A U.N. report says South Sudanese government troops held women as sex slaves while attacking scores of civilians just outside U.N. bases.

A day after doctors reported high levels of lead in Flint children, Gov. Rick Snyder's top aide told him the "real responsibility" for the city's water issues rested with local government officials, emails show.

Israel says it has revoked the residency rights of four Palestinians said to have carried out deadly attacks against Israelis.

A flight attendant accused of making a phony bomb threat that forced a flight he was working to make an emergency landing in North Dakota is accused in a similar incident in Virginia.

A British judge has published a report on the 2006 death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, saying President Vladimir Putin probably approved a plan by the Russian security service to kill him with poison.

Worries over a British exit from the European Union weighed on participants at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, with France's prime minister warning that it would be a "tragedy" that could prove an inspiration to populists around the region at a time when many countries are contending with massive numbers of refugees.

Two powerful Shiite militias are top suspects in the abduction of three Americans last weekend in a southern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, an Iraqi police commander and a Western security official in Baghdad said Thursday.

Over the past 30 years, 300 artworks have been commissioned by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and installed across the five boroughs and commuter rail stations.