Новости за 09.06.2016

It doesn’t take shining armor or white stallions to be a hero.

House Republicans laid out a national security agenda that seeks to turn the conversation away from Donald Trump's contentious presidential campaign and toward concrete policies for securing America's borders and defeating extremist groups.

Few rituals of the modern workplace evoke more dread than the annual performance review. Like a colonoscopy or root canal, it has been viewed as a necessary evil: deeply unpleasant but indispensable for the health of an organization.

As a medical professional in the Navy, Gary Scott Conway once sexually assaulted a male patient while the patient was sedated. Some of the other acts to which he admitted include: sexually molesting a severely autistic, non-verbal boy while the victim was 11 to 13 years old; having sexual contact on multiple occasions with an 8-year-old girl; sexually molesting two infants, one of which was the child of a Navy colleague whom he was babysitting.

Fathers, I have bad news. When your kid says "dada," she might not be talking about you. She might be weighing in on early-20th-century art.

A New York filmmaker and satirist who recently released a video about Portland State said Tuesday he couldn't believe what he was able to get PSU students to agree to last month. Said one rabbi at a local synagogue, "It is disturbing that you could get anyone to say, 'Sure I'll give you money to help promote terrorist activities.' "

There’s a sequence halfway through “Now You See Me 2” where its four-way team of illusionists put the movie’s street chases, gunfire and action/thriller violence on hold to flip a playing card with a computer chip MacGuffin back and forth in a room full of bad guys, invisibly. The card flips, floats, slithers through the team’s clothing, crosses their fingers and keeps vanishing from the opposition just before they can spot it.

There’s no set resume required of presidential hopefuls. Consider Abraham Lincoln. Few individuals have had less impressive credentials for America’s highest office before assuming it than our 16th president. Yet when it came to matters of foreign policy and defense, no president since has demonstrated more remarkable leadership.

Navy veteran Jon Miller was sentenced in Norfolk's federal court for sending child pornography images from his Navy Marine Corps Intranet workstation at Naval Surface Combat Systems Command on Wallops Island, Va.

Thousands of people streamed Wednesday into the $40.8 million expansion at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to see the most famous aircraft in the world as officials contemplated a future wish list to add more.

For the past five years, the 1st Lt. Derek Hines Flag Day 5K has provided the local community an opportunity to honor and remember the fallen Newburyport native — and all those who have given their lives for this great country — while raising money for the Derek Hines Soldiers Assistance Fund.

Not many people would consider what happened to Marine Cpl. Larry Bailey a happy story, but his father prefers to look at the way life changed for his son after his catastrophic battle injuries.

Kentucky Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer and Bristol Palin, who split up about a year ago, have gotten married and are now honeymooning at an undisclosed location, E! Online and other outlets reported.

The Senate backed away Thursday from breaking federal spending limits when it rejected a bid to add $18 billion to the military budget. The spending hike, blocked by only a few votes, would have reversed troop drawdowns, bumped up pay raises, and bought more fighter jets, ships and helicopters.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s research lab at Fort Detrick will have a new home on post in the near future, if its request for $64.3 million gets through Congress.

"Everyone comes to Sanibel loving shells," said Dorrie Hipschman, executive director of the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum. "We try to translate that love and passion into an understanding of the creatures that create the shells."

“The Conjuring 2,” a sequel to the 2013 supernatural film, is based on one of the most heavily documented cases of paranormal activity in England’s history. The A&E series “Bates Motel” brings to the small screen one of the most terrifying psychos in film lore.

Laugh at the Republicans’ comeuppance if you want; Heaven knows it’s richly deserved. But now the entire country is at risk of a Trump inauguration in 2017.

The Unmaking of the Grand Old Party is playing out on a screen near you. And although it seems to be stuck in an unending loop of slow-motion replays, please do not call your help desk.

Last year the five San Antonio Missions, spread out over about 12 miles along the San Antonio River, received the coveted designation of World Heritage Site. I'm seeing them through the eyes of their original Native American inhabitants.

Just before sunset at Camp Tariq - the base of operations for the fight to retake the Islamic State-held city of Fallujah - Iraqi officers in neatly pressed fatigues and fighters still dusty from the front prepared to break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

A one-star Navy admiral plead guilty to lying to federal investigators in the "Fat Leonard" corruption scandal, making him the highest-ranking officer so far to be convicted in the case.

A one-star Navy admiral will plead guilty today to lying to federal investigators in the "Fat Leonard" corruption scandal, his attorney said, which would make him the highest-ranking officer so far to be convicted in the case.

The Senate on Wednesday blocked a pilot project that would have privatized a handful of military grocery stores to test whether it could save money.

For decades the military services avoided paying millions of dollars extra every year to subsidize American-made athletic shoes for new recruits by adopting a voucher system that simply helped recruits purchase popular foreign-made brands sold in base exchanges.