Новости за 04.03.2016

Neither the Navy nor the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has a comprehensive list of which ships went where during the Vietnam War. As a result, veterans themselves often have to prove their ships served in areas where Agent Orange was sprayed.

An Indiana recruit has been kicked out of the Marine Corps for taking part in an altercation with a black woman at a Donald Trump rally Tuesday.

Syrians in rebel-held areas took advantage Friday of a week-long cease-fire to rally against President Bashar Assad, demanding his resignation, while a top opposition figure said his side believes it is "not suitable" for peace talks to resume in Geneva next week.

In “Far Cry Primal,” you’ll face extinction in a world where you’re just as likely to be the hunted as they are the hunter.

Servicemembers interested in reading a new book charging the military was negligent in exposing troops to burn pits will have to look outside their bases to find a copy. Post exchanges aren’t selling it.

A former Marine Corps officer-turned-congressman said Friday it was “pathetic” that the Defense Department does not mandate that its troops intervene if a child is raped by allied troops on American-controlled bases.

Active-duty Missouri residents stationed in the state wouldn't pay state income taxes under a bill approved in Missouri Senate.

Next year, four communities in North Dakota will lose their longstanding National Guard units, amid a nationwide effort to cut down on Guard numbers.

Nigeria's military has closed one of Africa's biggest cattle markets, charging sales of stolen animals is helping finance Boko Haram's Islamic insurgency, according to angry residents who say thousands of people have lost jobs, beef is no longer available and animals are dying in a sealed abattoir.

Men and women are now equal on the battlefield but that does not mean one size fits all when it comes to gear. The Army and Marine Corps are fielding thousands of sets of newly sized armor designed to better fit the female form just as recruitment begins for the gender-neutral infantry ordered by Defense Secretary Ash Carter in December.

A list of the master sergeants selected by the U.S. Air Force for promotion to the rank of senior master sergeant, as announced on March 3, 2016.

The U.S. military commander of Al Udeid air base in Qatar said this week the base will work tirelessly to eliminate mold in living quarters, which others worry could be sickening some residents.

The U.S. military commander of Al Udeid air base in Qatar said this week the base will work tirelessly to eliminate mold in living quarters, which others worry could be sickening some residents.

Rather than narrow the field, many now believe the only way to stop Donald Trump is for the current candidates to stay in, deny Trump the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, and force a contested convention in July.

To the catalogue of anxieties her patients explore during therapy — marriage, children, and careers — psychologist Alison Howard is now listening to a new source of stress: the political rise of Donald Trump.

Social conservatives have dominated the Texas board of education for some time — the seat for which Mary Lou Bruner is running used to be occupied by creationist Don McLeroy — but few have been quite as outspoken or inflammatory as Bruner.

Is it all-important for a successful candidate to be perceived as honest, or more honest than his or her chief rival? Previous election results appear to indicate the opposite.

The Hillary Clinton campaign has gone on the attack against the government official who conducts oversight of the State Department she used to run, accusing him of partisanship and misconduct without any direct evidence. That strategy could backfire by politicizing the role of the government's inspectors general and undermining needed State Department reforms.

If you’re drinking coffee, better put it down. Right now, odds are about 50-50 that Donald Trump will be the next president.

Although Donald Trump often seems disconnected from reality, on this issue he has a point. The U.S. is in decline. Fortunately, the slide isn’t severe, and there’s probably time to arrest its progress or prevent it from accelerating.

I woke up on Wednesday morning with a song going through my head: “The Eve of Destruction.” It bounced around in the echo chamber between my ears as I brushed and flossed, as I ironed my blouse, as I coaxed my hair into a semblance of order.

Physician-assisted suicide is often portrayed as a compassionate option for clear-thinking adults to end their lives peacefully. But the reality is much darker.

Amid a week-long cease-fire that has mostly held around Syria, opponents of President Bashar Assad staged small demonstrations Friday in rebel-held areas to call for his resignation.

Big annual increases in China's defense budget have been fueling a top-to-bottom modernization drive that has brought in new equipment and vast improvements in living conditions for the People's Liberation Army's 2.3 million members. Even with the budget growing by a relatively modest 7 percent to 8 percent this year, the PLA can still be expected to continue adding the latest generation fighter jets, bombers, frigates, submarines and missiles.

Unidentified gunmen stormed a retirement home run by Catholic nuns in the southern city of Aden on Friday shooting 16 people to death, including 4 Indian nuns, Yemeni security officials and witnesses said.