Новости за 12.05.2016

Two House lawmakers – both Republicans – slammed their party Thursday, saying Speaker Paul Ryan and other members are avoiding a vote on the Islamic State war as a way to undermine the president.

About 19,000 nisei soldiers served in the 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team as well as in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence Service. A new digital exhibition, “The Nisei Soldier Congressional Gold Medal,” was to be unveiled in Washington, D.C. on Thursday.

It is distressing that with all our problems, causing misery and inciting anger and hatred are still front and center in U.S. politics.

This weekend, Iran will stage its third cartoon exhibition about the Holocaust. The images on display mock a history of genocide and Jewish suffering. The event, said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, was sponsored by private nongovernmental organizations. He then pointed to a history of supposed Western double standards. "Why does the United States have the Ku Klux Klan?"

Nepal's earthquake reconstruction agency has increased by more than $1 billion its estimate of the money needed to rebuild nearly 1 million houses damaged by a powerful earthquake last year.

If you’re fleeing fast enough from the shattered hopes and dreams of politics, Trump’s flagrant, frequent departures from the truth appear to be standing still.

A wave of Islamic State bombings in Baghdad has killed nearly 100 people in two days, exposing lingering gaps in the capital's defenses, which are manned by an array of security agencies and militias that don't always cooperate.

Although the U.S. is still perceived as the more natural ally, China’s patient drive for acceptance in Europe is beginning to pay off, especially in the needier, weaker parts of the continent.

Some secrecy in criminal trials is permissible when evidence is classified for the right reasons. But it’s perverse when the secrecy is driven by the fact that the U.S. government itself violated the law in its treatment of the defendant.

For much of its cold, damp, bitter prison life, Alcatraz was a place you'd kill to leave, and many an inmate tried. These days, people would almost kill to get in.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday that Britain will not get an improved membership deal with the European Union if the country votes to leave the bloc.

These two aging, rather unpopular baby boomers will present voters with one of the greatest contrasts in the history of presidential politics, from the personal to the political.

A suicide bomber pretending to be a madman blew himself up Thursday, killing seven people including two police officers who stopped him entering a bustling complex of government offices in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, officials said.

The world's saltiest, most pork-forward museum opened recently in a tourist-friendly location in the southern Minnesota town of Austin.

It was 9:07 a.m. on March 22 when Belgian police's directorate of operations sent out an email ordering the closure of the Brussels metro.

With a new show spotlighting drones, robots and space-based weaponry, the Museum of Science and Industry is doing something unprecedented: It's presenting an exhibition made by and recruiting for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Delta Airlines is so worried about long lines at airport security checkpoints that it has offered up workers at no cost to the federal government.

Federal employees may want to be more prudent when posting to social media and more selective about selfies, as the government eyes their online activities to gauge their trustworthiness.

A sailor has died in three out of the last four Navy SEAL training classes, with one drowning days ago during a pool exercise and another committing suicide in April after failing to complete one of the U.S. military’s most demanding training programs.

The first thing you realize about U.S. Army Sgt. Elizabeth Marks is that if you want to know what the 25-year-old has endured, you will have to drag it out of her.

On May 12, 2015, Patrick Murphy was on a train that slammed on its side to the ground below the tracks. The first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress, Murphy was back in what looked like a war zone. That's when his military training kicked in.

The U.S. invitation allowing China to participate in the upcoming Rim of the Pacific maritime exercises off Hawaii appears to be holding — even as American accusations fly that China is militarizing the South China Sea, while China maintains America has no business “provoking the new maritime order.”

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

President Vladimir Putin has hailed Russia's arms industries for meeting most production goals for new weapons, but noted that some contracts haven't been fulfilled.

The Army says a 101st Airborne Division soldier has died from injuries suffered during a live-fire training exercise at Fort Polk, Louisiana.