Новости за 23.05.2016

DeVry University and the University of Phoenix will no longer bar students from filing class-action lawsuits or otherwise taking their grievances to the courts, putting an end to mandatory arbitration clauses that consumer advocates say rob students of their rights.

Lawmakers lashed out Monday at Bob McDonald after the Department of Veterans Affairs secretary compared the time veterans wait for health care to the wait for rides at Disneyland.

In the early days of U.S. Africa Command, airstrikes against militants in Somalia were guarded secrets, the kind of operations at odds with an image that AFRICOM was a kinder, gentler version of its sister combatant commands.

A group of senators led by New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand will make another attempt this week to strip military commanders of the power to decide whether sexual assault cases are prosecuted.

Pakistan's Foreign Office summoned U.S. Ambassador David Hale on Monday to "express concern" about the airstrike Saturday that killed Taliban chief Akhtar Mohammad Mansour.

When female fans approach Kate Beckinsale in public, it's often to tell the 42-year-old English actress that she represents a fantasy -- of their husbands.

Barcham Zana knows her enemy. It is the Islamic State, which she calls "darkness." Islamic State militants killed two cousins, she said. For her, the group is not an abstract threat.

Take two charismatic actors. Give them characters that are, on the surface, totally incompatible. Plunk them into your basic whodunit, a mismatched team fighting fill-in-the-blank bad guys. Stir in some shoot-em-up action, and poof: You have a buddy cop movie, one of the most durable formulas in Hollywood.

The mosquito species capable of carrying the Zika virus is likely found on 190 U.S. military installations in 27 states and three territories, according to a Pentagon memo written in March.

The felony murder trial of a Robins Air Force Base airman hit a speed bump in its first day Monday, forcing a delay in what is already expected to be a lengthy military proceeding.

The last member of the group of British jailers who supervised the torture and killing of Western hostages held by the Islamic State has been identified as a 27-year-old Londoner who traveled to Syria in 2012.

Bringing Sinaloa cartel chief Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to American soil could take years, but once the process starts, it will probably be lightning quick and as scripted as it has been for other extradited drug lords, terrorists and fugitives.

Should any soldier be permitted to leave his post with impunity? No. But life in prison? That’s way too harsh.

FBI agents probing whether Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server imperiled government secrets appear close to completing their work, a process experts say will probably culminate in a sit-down with the former secretary of state.

A man accused of aiding a foiled plot to bomb a Kansas military post on behalf of the Islamic State group pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey's president on Monday that Ankara must fulfill all the European Union's conditions to secure visa-free travel for its citizens, but Turkey responded that it would suspend agreements with the EU if the bloc does not keep its promises.

The death of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour “marks an important milestone” in the U.S. effort to bring peace to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said Monday.

The European Union boosted the role of its naval operation in the Mediterranean on Monday after Libya granted permission for the EU to train its coastguard, as increasing numbers of desperate migrants leave the country in unseaworthy boats bound for Italy.

Sexual misconduct remains a destructive force in the armed forces and military communities, a U.S. senator said Monday in a new report that urges Congress to take more aggressive steps to end sex crimes in the ranks.

The U.S. drone strike thought to have killed Taliban chief Akhtar Mohammad Mansour represents another escalation in U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan by trying to cripple an insurgent group that has for years found refuge on Pakistani soil.

A war that ended decades ago claimed another life just days before President Barack Obama arrived.

He cannot acknowledge, maybe even to himself, that disengagement was a mistake. That is why, even as Americans are, once again, being killed in Iraq, Obama insists that no servicemembers are in combat.

Officials and business leaders in Maryland are backing a proposal to elevate U.S. Cyber Command to a unified combatant command — one of 10 charged with carrying out missions around the world — a move they hope will bring prestige and more jobs to the state.

More than seven decades after being killed during World War II, Pvt. Earl Joseph Keating finally came home to his native New Orleans after his remains were discovered on the Pacific island where he died in 1942.

Iraqi government forces on Monday pushed Islamic State militants out of some agricultural areas outside of Fallujah as they launched a military offensive to recapture the city from the extremists, officials said.