Новости за 04.08.2016

CEO and President Mike Petters was upbeat on the shipbuilder's long-term outlook, but he repeated something he's said before: its Newport News Shipbuilding division faces a workload challenge over the short term.

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

More than 360 soldiers from 12 nations in the Western Hemisphere crammed into sweltering tents this week at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, plotting how to defend the Panama Canal from a simulated terrorist attack.

The descendants of men who fought on opposing sides during the Civil War battle met unexpectedly at the Battle of Richmond Visitors Center in Kentucky.

Cadet Mark Czerner was set for a trial this month on charges that he sexually assaulted a classmate in a car on the campus on Valentine's Day 2015. The academy said four additional charges were brought against Czerner on July 22.

Egypt's military said on Thursday that the leader of the Islamic State's affiliate has been killed in the Sinai Peninsula, along with several key aides and 45 other members of the extremist group.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, The Netherlands and Spain and Turkey.

Back on the defensive, Donald Trump's campaign chief acknowledged conflict inside Trump Tower on Thursday as anxious Republicans struggled to shift voters' attention to Hillary Clinton's record on foreign policy.

Three days past the deadline set by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for President Bashar al-Assad to being a political transition in Syria, fighting is raging in Aleppo, the last urban stronghold of the rebels opposed to the regime. The U.S., however, is not coming to their rescue.

After a slow start, it appears increasingly likely that the Obama administration will hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United States before the end of September.

Those who favor greater gun control have pointed to the availability of guns as a risk factor. Pro-gun voices, meanwhile, suggest that the widespread availability leads to "good guys" who could stop a terrorist shooter in his tracks.

So instead of presidential politics today’s topic is aviation. Which sadly can also be aggravating given it is unavoidably linked to bad political decisions. Like betting the farm the F-35 fighter bomber can assure the nation’s security.

It's one of the delicious ironies of the Barack Obama presidency that a man who came into office with lofty talk on nuclear nonproliferation would oversee the biggest modernization of the U.S. arsenal since the Cold War.

I just love it when Democrats make up rules that apply only to others, never themselves. Resplendent in his sanctimony, Obama was standing in a pulpit that only preaches rectitude to outside denominations.

Back in 2014, Christmas came a bit early for the McConnells of Louisville, Ky. In November, America’s voters gave Republicans control of the U.S. Senate, which meant Mitch McConnell would be getting the one gift he had always wanted: the title of Senate Majority Leader.

Biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University came up with the CricSpike, a device medics could use to create an artificial airway and pump air into the lungs. The equipment could keep troops alive until they reach a hospital.

You might have missed it amid the recent Campaign 2016 turbulence, but there's been a major development on the economic front. The U.S. homeownership rate has just fallen to its lowest level since the Census Bureau began tracking it in 1965.

When I read that Janes Island State Park on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay has more than six miles of secluded beach accessible only by boat, I had to go.

Imagine a political thriller in which the Republican candidate for president of the United States is in cahoots with a Russian dictator. Sound preposterous?

I have long believed that neither the Republican nor Democratic Party has a platform that a Christian can fully embrace. Choosing between the two always comes down to setting priorities, and Christians of sincere faith can come to different conclusions on party affiliation.

Looking toward the future, will the new world order resemble a Planet of the Dogs, where humans pass through a phalanx of canine noses to enter event venues and ride mass transit?

The clandestine group's goal was clear: Obtain the building blocks of a radioactive "dirty bomb" — capable of poisoning a major city for a year or more — by openly purchasing the raw ingredients from authorized sellers inside the United States.

"The Les Cheneaux is an opaque place," says Jesse Hadley, owner of Michigan's Woods and Water Ecotours. "It is word of mouth or a connection. You have to have the veil lifted, the secret passed."

Abubakar Shekau said Thursday he is still the leader of Boko Haram, rejecting a successor announced hours earlier by the Islamic State group and exposing the biggest rift yet among Nigeria's deadly Islamic insurgents.

A key to unearthing and telling the story of Fort Rosalie will be the archaeology work that is ongoing at the site, said David Morgan, director of the National Park Service Southeast Archaeological Center.