Новости за 01.08.2016

For the first time, the Zika virus has prompted public health officials to warn pregnant women to avoid traveling to a part of the continental United States. The travel advisory comes in response to a growing outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in South Florida.

The United States outlined no change in its Syria policy as a target date for a political transition passed Monday, despite warning a few months ago that no progress would lead to a more muscular approach for ending the 5-year-old civil war.

Jewett Williams served in the 20th Maine Regiment in the Civil War. When he died in 1922 at an Oregon insane asylum, he was cremated and his ashes were stored and forgotten along with the remains of thousands of other patients.

Four years ago, there were more than 4,900 homeless people living in New Orleans. The majority — more than 3,450 of them — were living in abandoned buildings, or just camping out on the streets, according to a "Point in Time" report by UNITY of Greater New Orleans.

India's government moved on Monday to evacuate thousands of laid-off workers who are stranded in Saudi Arabia as its economy struggles with low oil prices.

Hit by two torpedoes soon after midnight on July 30, 1945, the heavy cruiser sank in 12 minutes. About 200 sailors and Marines went down with the ship. Those who escaped the wreckage drifted for days in shark-infested waters.

The full text of President Barack Obama's speech to the Disabled American Veterans convention in Atlanta, August 1, 2016, as provided by the White House.

The number active-duty servicemembers that have contracted the Zika virus while serving overseas includes a pregnant woman, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday. Six family members of servicemembers have also contracted the virus outside of the continental United States.

Honoring those who serve does not stop at the time of a servicemember or veteran’s death. Even when resources are tight, there is priority in providing a sense of dignity in the way we say our final farewell to those who have defended the United States.

Smoke and sulfur wafted through the air as more than 100 guests watched U.S. and British militia re-enactors fire guns and cannons at each other during the 12th annual War of 1812 Weekend Saturday and Sunday at the Battlefield State Historic Site in New York.

The conventions are over and Americans are preparing for final summer vacations and Olympic viewing parties, but the intensity of the presidential campaigns shows no signs of entering its traditional August slowdown.

On July 23, director David Ayer stood on the convention floor at Comic-Con, wearing a baseball hat that read “Make Mexico Great Again,” shaking his head in disbelief.

Iraq's attempt to fast-track death sentences handed out by the country's courts will result in greater injustice, according to a statement from the United Nations Monday.

My parents’ quiet struggle over my own mortality was on my mind as I watched Khizr Khan deliver his remarks of the closing night at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday.

The battle to frame the question was a significant part of what the conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia were about. Trump’s message was that the United States is in crisis and that he alone can change its course; Clinton’s was that the country’s problems are solvable, but Trump doesn’t have the temperament to be commander in chief.

Why is Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort denying that his staff worked to keep the Republican platform from supporting U.S. weapons deliveries to Ukraine?

Maj. Gen. John Rossi left Fort Sill last month to head up the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala.

A man accused of plotting to attack the U.S. Capitol in support of the Islamic State group during President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union address pleaded guilty Monday to three federal charges.

People across Warsaw observed a minute of silence as a siren wailed on Monday, marking the 72nd anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising, a struggle against Nazi Germany in 1944 that lasted 63 days and ended tragically for the Poles.

Gov. Rick Scott announced the number of Zika cases likely spread by local mosquitoes had increased to 14 and asked Monday for a federal emergency response team to help the state combat the spread of the virus in the U.S.

The airstrikes were carried out with a combination of manned and unmanned aircraft against the terrorist group near Sirte and “hit a tank and a couple of vehicles,” said a defense official, who spoke on the condition he not be identified.

While senior U.S. officials have called out Russia in broad terms for its increasingly aggressive behavior in U.S. cyberspace, the U.S. has only once tied Russia to a specific attack. That was in 2015 when Secretary of Defense Ash Carter accused Moscow of probing a Pentagon system.

Donald Trump presents an oversized target for anyone who wants to attack him for poor knowledge of international politics. His most recent remarks on Russia and Ukraine, on ABC's "This Week," have again invited sharp criticism because they are so far removed from the U.S. government's official line. But they are not as ignorant as many think.

A $1 edition of the pocket Constitution printed by the nonpartisan National Center for Constitutional Studies became the second best-selling book on Amazon. It remains there today.

When he started at the CIA, Sean Roche recalls how little solid data the U.S. spy agency had on what was going on inside the Kremlin.