Новости за 03.03.2016

In a Facebook post Friday, the Lance Corporal Skip Wells Foundation accused John Simpson of misappropriating $135,000. Simpson is the founder of Marines and Mickey, an organization that is supposed to send the families of Marines to Disney World. The foundation also purports to fly family members to boot camp graduations in South Carolina and California.

The C-23 crash that killed the 18 Virginians and three Florida Army National Guard aviators was the largest loss of life in the Virginia National Guard since World War II.

U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall, and U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce sent a letter Wednesday to President Obama urging him to advocate for a mutually beneficial arrangement that will allow the German Air Force, Luftwaffe, to maintain a productive presence in the United States at Holloman Air Force Base.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

Times and dates for theaters in Japan, Okinawa and South Korea

A one-time "Queen of the Fleet" for the U.S. Coast Guard may find a permanent home in the Twin Ports, if a local fundraising effort is successful.

On Monday, Navy SEAL Senior Chief Petty Officer Edward Byers was awarded the nation's highest combat honor for his role in a hostage rescue mission. Byers is believed to be first service member to ever earn the Medal of Honor while assigned to the secretive SEAL Team 6. But it is his plans for the future that could make him even more unique: Byers wants to return to combat.

The U.S. Navy’s submarine force is setting up a temporary command center on a sheet of Arctic ice, where U.S. underwater capabilities will be put to the test in the increasingly strategic High North.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said Thursday he is concerned about being able to repair or replace equipment worn from 15 years of war as the Pentagon reshapes the military for the high-tech conflicts that could lie ahead.

Republican national security leaders and experts have assailed GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump as unfit to be commander in chief, calling him dishonest and describing his positions on key issues as dangerous and uninformed.

War can be hilarious. Not that the actual violence is funny — there is nothing amusing about the thousands of civilians and troops who have died and hundreds of thousands who have been displaced during America’s 15-year nightmare in Afghanistan. But within the larger tragedy of armed conflict is a rich vein of dark, absurdist humor grounded in the day-to-day insanity of life in a war zone.

Science experiments by U.S. middle-school students in Japan could have major implications in stemming the tide of a major source of seaborne pollution.

Sen. John McCain on Thursday charged the Air Force chief of staff with being dishonest about the critical role of the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft in the war against Islamic State militants.

The job in the Moscow warehouse was nothing like Elyas and his brother had been promised. They loaded and unloaded trucks from 4 in the morning until 8 at night. They got two days off a year. Their backs ached.

Inside a secret safe house just outside Munich, Bowe Bergdahl started off as a line item, one of many on a list designed to kick-start peace talks in Afghanistan.

A registered nurse who acknowledged drinking four or five beers in the hours before assisting an operation at a veterans' hospital in Pennsylvania has resigned.

The European Union's leader chose the continent's main gateway for immigrants Thursday to bluntly warn economic migrants not to even think of coming to Europe, while promising to work for a solution to the more immediate problem of refugees.

China’s deployment of surface-to-air missile launchers to the largest island in the Paracels chain has led to a spike in alarmist analysis.

The party has brought itself to this point.

President Obama's 2017 budget request is set to take a beating later this month from an unlikely critic: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Amid stark warnings from France over Britain's possible exit from the European Union, the nations' leaders held talks Thursday seeking common strategies over a deepening crisis over migrants and concerns over wider European security.

The United States has delivered eight refurbished Black Hawk helicopters to Jordan for the kingdom's battle against Islamic State extremists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin may appoint his human rights commissioner to lead the body overseeing elections, amid complaints from independent monitors of a crackdown ahead of parliamentary and presidential votes.

A nanny accused of decapitating a 4-year old girl and brandishing her head outside a Moscow subway station said during an apparent interrogation captured on video that the killing was an act of revenge against President Vladimir Putin for Russian airstrikes in Syria.

Russian and Syrian government forces have been targeting hospitals as a strategy of war in Syria's conflict, according to a report released by a rights group Thursday.