Новости за 29.05.2016

As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have effectively ended, veterans face special challenges that often can hinder their transitions to the civilian working world. The military, federal government, nonprofits and businesses have made strides to ease the change.

For the Memorial Day weekend, volunteers spent hours at the Hampton National Cemetery meticulously placing American flags on the graves of U.S. military veterans. On an adjacent plot in the cemetery, 272 Confederate graves went unmarked.

As a kid, Jason Rebholz liked to play on the steps. To this day, he remembers sitting there as a sailor bent down to tell him the news. His frantic mother started making phone calls.

The threatened summer of discontent for American travelers got underway Memorial Day weekend as the understaffed Transportation Security Administration struggled to keep its security lines moving in the nation's airports.

Donald Trump told a Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally on Sunday that people in the U.S. illegally often are cared for better than the nation's military veterans.

Turkey's president has criticized the United States, Russia and Iran for their presence in Syria and said their unwillingness to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad was contributing to Syrians' pain.

As Los Angeles activist and aspiring officeholder Mimi Soltysik ponders the Democratic ballot in the race for the White House, the words he blurts out include warmonger, imperialist and status quo. And that’s before he even turns his attention to Hillary Clinton.

They are the people who decide elections, shun partisan labels or loyalty, and swing back and forth between the major political parties from election to election. And they have a problem. They can’t stand either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

Late last month, as the House Armed Services Committee worked on the annual defense policy bill, U.S. Rep. Steve Russell offered a very brief amendment. It may have been short, but it was anything but simple.

The legal fight over Wisconsin’s photo ID voting requirement put it back in the political spotlight this month, with the state a key front in the national battle surrounding such laws.

A group that seeks to reunite lost Purple Hearts with service members or their descendants is embarking on an ambitious project: to return 100 such medals or certificates earned in World War I before the 100th anniversary next April of the United States' entry into the conflict.

For Tom Manion, a retired Marine Corps colonel, Memorial Day is more than just a holiday to remember veterans who didn't make it home. It's yet another day that he thinks of his only son, First Lt. Travis Manion, who was killed in action in 2007.

Did Obama do enough to make good on his intentions, if not promises? We’ll know in a generation or two, perhaps.

Souleymane Guengueng was among thousands imprisoned in Chad during the 1982-1990 rule of dictator Hissene Habre. When Guengueng, an accountant accused of working with the opposition, was released in 1990 he collected more than 800 accounts of fellow prisoners and vowed to seek justice for their torture and suffering.

An 1,100-yard radius was sealed off and 54 flights diverted to other airports. The town council in Langenhagen, where the airport is located, said experts unearthed and defused a 551-pound U.S. bomb.

For those of us for whom Memorial Day takes on special meaning, we do not seek your pity, but we do seek your help. Help us to honor our loved ones by bringing their model of character to your own lives.

Politics is not simply a team sport, and good government is possible only if we’re willing to call out misbehavior no matter who does it.

Statue honors the 135 servicemen and servicewomen from the Emmitsburg, Md., area who fought in World War I, including nine who were killed.

Americans already think she is qualified to be president and he isn’t. The path should thus be open for her to get them to follow the implications of that thought.

When it comes to judgments about foreign trade, the “foreign” aspect of the issue is what many of us find easiest to focus on, even if unconsciously. International trade is, after all, an interaction with “others.”

Egypt has been hit with a wave of militant attacks that intensified after the military's ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

Since March, the group recruited 3,000 new fighters, including teenagers, in comparison to an average of 200 to 300 a month before, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Fallujah, about 40 miles west of Baghdad, is one of the last major IS strongholds in Iraq.

Iraq's special forces completed a troop buildup around Fallujah on Sunday ahead of an operation to retake the Islamic State-held city west of Baghdad, a military officer said, as the militants attacked a newly-liberated town to the west.