Новости за 02.04.2016

Dyess Air Force Base will not receive a state grant to fund security upgrades at the base Visitors Control Center, the Office of the Governor announced Friday.

Legislation that calls for naming part of Route 114 after a soldier and Bristol native killed in a suicide bombing attack in Afghanistan last summer was signed into law on Friday.

A program at the Alamance Battleground State Historic Site will examine teenage soldiers in the Confederate military during the final year of the Civil War.

More than 200 refugees and migrants are staging a protest on a highway linking Greece and Macedonia, demanding that Macedonia open its borders and allow them to continue their journeys to central and northern Europe.

The Belgian federal prosecutor's office has charged a Belgian with participating in the activities of a terrorist group for his alleged role in a plot to attack France, uncovered after the arrest of a Frenchman and discovery of a huge cache of weapons and explosives.

A Northern Virginia high school provided an ideal training ground for a CIA dog team which held an exercise there while students were away for spring break. But the quiet exercise has led to an embarrassment for the elite spy agency, which left explosive material behind in the engine compartment of a school bus that then shuttled special-needs schoolchildren for two days this week.

The U.S. and its partners in the coalition targeting Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria have conducted more than 11,000 airstrikes since the campaign began, and refueling tankers have been key to those missions.

In a display of small-town pride and big-hearted grief, Temecula and the Marine Corps gathered Friday to honor one of their sons, a Marine killed in what may be a pivot point in the still-simmering war against the so-called Islamic State in Iraq.

Santiago Jesus Erevia, called a “silent hero” of the Vietnam War who was awarded the Medal of Honor long after coming home, was saluted Friday with a solemn burial marked by military pomp but in keeping with his low-key personality.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were on opposing sides of certain types of biomedical research while they served in Congress, differences that have gained notice by scientists and advocates on the forefront of stem cell research.

In an excerpt broadcast Friday on "CBS Evening News," Trump said about abortion: "The laws are set. And I think we have to leave it that way."

California and New York — where almost 1 in 5 Americans live — are on their way to raising their minimum wage to $15 an hour, and the activists who spearheaded those efforts are now setting their sights on other similarly liberal, Democratic-led states.

In the garage of his home in a rough-and-tumble Havana neighborhood, Rolando Alfonso is fixing up a 1960 Oldsmobile he hopes will be a ticket to a more profitable future: Driving tourists around Cuba.

Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio may be banned from returning to Indonesia over his criticisms that palm oil plantations are destroying the country's rainforests and endangering wildlife, an immigration official said Saturday.

World leaders declared progress in safeguarding nuclear materials sought by terrorists and wayward nations, even as President Barack Obama acknowledged the task was far from finished.

Few organizations have felt the crisis in military suicides more than the Minnesota National Guard. In the past five years, more of its members have died by suicide than all but one state Guard in the country.

Every time Arnold Fisher cuts a ribbon outside an Intrepid Spirit Center, he said it feels a little sweeter.

El Paso Police Department officials have identified the 19-year-old driver involved in a fatal accident a week ago.

Struck by suicide bombers 10 days ago, the airport known as "the heart of Europe" has stopped beating temporarily, causing headaches for thousands of business and vacation travelers, and painful financial losses for Belgium's capital and tourism industry.

Pvt. John P. Sersha is coming home. Nearly 72 years after the young soldier was killed in a Holland forest-turned-battlefield, officials have identified his remains and will soon reunite them with his family in Minnesota.

Lockheed Martin Corp. has been awarded U.S. Navy funding up to $564 million to build another littoral combat ship in Marinette, Wisconsin.

President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday that "civilians were killed that shouldn't have been" in past U.S. drone strikes, but said the administration is now "very cautious" about striking where women or children are present.

The Pentagon, the world's largest user of drones, has posted a new policy on signs outside the mammoth five-sided building: No Drone Zone.

An apology after they were handcuffed and held at gunpoint after a family trip to the Air Force Museum two years ago apparently didn’t cut it for Alice and Wendy Hill.

Russia is accusing three Turkish foundations of supplying weapons and military equipment to Islamic State extremists in Syria and says $1.9 million worth of explosives and industrial chemicals were smuggled across Turkey's border to extremist groups.