Новости за 08.03.2016

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton looked to pad their leads in Tuesday's primary contests in Michigan and Mississippi, eager to turn their attention toward a general election fight for the White House.

Nearly three years after Edward Snowden bypassed the intelligence community's own process for reporting wrongdoing and leaked troves of classified documents to Glenn Greenwald, the system for protecting whistleblowers inside the national security state remains broken.

FBI agents involved in the traffic stop that led to the killing of one of the armed occupiers of a national wildlife refuge are under investigation for not disclosing they fired shots that missed rancher Robert "LaVoy" Finicum, an Oregon sheriff said Tuesday.

The view of a United Nations committee criticizing the recent “comfort women” agreement between Seoul and Tokyo is “extremely regrettable and unacceptable,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday.

The first four-star female general in the Air Force will become a top adviser to the Pentagon on issues related to women in the military.

By U.S. accounts, it was a devastating airstrike against Islamic militants in Somalia, with more than 150 fighters killed in a training camp. But the weekend attack probably won't diminish al-Shabab's ability to continue a wave of bloodshed.

The moment a U.S. official pressed a computer key Tuesday, dozens of security experts who gathered in an underground control room girded themselves for a cyberattack — a drill meant to thwart the kinds of intrusions that have recently crippled health networks and retail giants.

Israeli police say a man killed by a Palestinian attacker in a stabbing spree in the port city of Jaffa was an American tourist.

Drive down a road lined with trash fires, past an improvised slum where sewage runs between shacks and through an army checkpoint, and you'll reach a startling destination: a gleaming, self-contained community about as clean and orderly as a U.S. suburb.

The oldest inmate at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, made his case Tuesday for freedom after more than a dozen years in custody.

Ellsworth Air Force Base's planes and personnel will get a break to allow time for a nearly $1 billion upgrade of its fleet of more than 60 B-1 bomber jets and to give crews time to refresh and retrain.

Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says the country has exported heavy water, a key component for one kind of nuclear reactor, to the United States as part of a landmark nuclear agreement.

The U.N. envoy for Syria will begin holding "substantive" peace talks with both Syrian government officials and opposition representatives no later than next Monday even as preparations toward the discussions get underway this week in Geneva, a spokeswoman for the envoy said Tuesday.

In the late 1960s, the Army trained Don Kenyon for the artillery, a skill he was never called upon to use. But his military service prepared him for something else later in life — hospice volunteer.

Massive joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises are a spring ritual on the Korean Peninsula guaranteed to draw a lot of threat-laced venom from Pyongyang. This time, not only are the war games the biggest ever, but the troops now massed south of the Demilitarized Zone have reportedly incorporated a new hypothetical into their training: a "beheading mission" against Kim Jong Un himself.

The U.S. must do more to blunt the spread of the Islamic State group in Libya, a “failed state” and magnet for a growing number of militants exploiting chaos, U.S. Africa Command’s Gen. David Rodriguez said Tuesday.

The secretary of the Air Force along with the deputy secretary of energy will be in southern Arizona visiting the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes that most housing built prior to 1978 uses some lead paint. According to the Census Bureau, there are nearly 70 million houses in the United States that meet that standard.

An Ohio-based company has agreed to pay $3 million to the federal government to settle a lawsuit over combat helmets it provided to the U.S. Army that were found to be substandard.

One of the toughest lessons the U.S. military learned from Operation Tomodachi is that it sometimes has to fight its natural inclination to take charge and instead needs to synch its actions more closely with a host nation’s requests.

The drug at the center of Maria Sharapova's doping case, regularly given to Soviet troops in the 1980s to boost their stamina while fighting in Afghanistan, is normally prescribed for medical use for periods of four to six weeks.

The Treasury Department is sanctioning a rebel group and its fugitive warlord Joseph Kony for violence targeting civilians in the Central African Republic. Tuesday's action freezes any assets that Kony or his group has within U.S. jurisdiction and bans Americans from engaging in transactions with them.

The targeting of an U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle with a laser beam last week that temporarily disoriented its two crew members as they descended toward RAF Lakenheath in England was not an isolated incident, military officials say.

A U.S. military base in South Korea was locked down for two hours Tuesday after what turned out to be a false report of an active shooter.

Police in Germany say two Israeli agents had their cover blown by a suspicious retiree after their car became stuck in mud in northern Germany.