Новости за 08.08.2016

He had faced mortal danger during six overseas deployments in 15 years with the U.S. Air Force, but this rookie teacher still was scared the first day he faced the 20 kindergartners in his classroom one year ago.

The fight - which continues to be largely waged from the air - has also leveled entire neighborhoods, displaced millions and redrawn the Iraqi map.

Albert J. Maggioli wanted to honor his cousin Andrew who, in the midst of a successful dentistry career, was struck down by cancer. “I wanted to be a dentist. I thought it would be nice to carry on his legacy,” Maggioli said.

Most Civil War history buffs know about Frederick’s role rehabilitating soldiers during that era, but not too many know about its history as a “party town.” Soldiers stole horses, a popular crime to go to jail for was drunkenness, and drunken horse races took place in the streets.

Fort Ligonier could gain another layer of defenses at its eastern end, and a group of college students is helping to lay the groundwork for the proposed expansion.

Lee McDuff remembers that after he finished dueling with German anti-aircraft flak guns on a World War II mission in the Netherlands, the Army Air Corps set aside his riddled P-47 for salvage. “I came back and my crew chief counted them — he told me the next morning that I had 103 holes in my airplane.

Prosecutors say former Air Force Academy cadet Mark Czerner was facing charges in another sexual assault case when he allegedly crept into another sleeping classmate's dorm room and attempted to sexually assault her.

When it comes to safeguarding the honor and dignity of those who have served, there is no one in Congress that veterans put more stock in than Vietnam War hero John McCain. But when it comes to questions of how to structure and pay for veterans' benefits such as health care, McCain and veterans advocacy organizations are at odds at least as often as they are in lock step.

A one-square-mile area north of downtown Miami, marked by three streets and a highway, is a Zika hot zone that public health officials say pregnant women should avoid. Many people don't understand how those boundaries were picked.

It was only a matter of time before some country banned Pokemon Go, the addictive location-based game. Now, Iran has claimed that distinction. Others will surely seek to regulate the augmented-reality game too, for a simple reason: Pokemon Go poses too many questions that do not have satisfactory answers yet.

United Nations officials are asking the military to delay the assault so relief workers can prepare for an exodus of a million or more civilians. That will require more time and money to prepare for what some have warned could become a humanitarian crisis that could devastate ongoing relief efforts stretched thin after years of conflict.

Imagine an interactive, room-sized, IMAX-like theater where police trainees walk through stunningly realistic scenarios — ranging from a seemingly routine traffic stop to confronting multiple shooters inside a school — and you’ll have some idea of what MILO is all about.

Created by George Washington in 1782, the Purple Heart — awarded to soldiers wounded or killed in combat — is the United States' oldest existing military honor and has been awarded an estimated 1.8 million times.

The mission to recover the El Faro’s voyage data recorder will be undertaken this week when a remotely operated underwater vehicle will try to retrieve the device from the ship’s wreckage, resting 3 miles below the surface of the ocean near the Bahamas.

Trying to turn the page after a tumultuous campaign stretch, Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack Monday on Hillary Clinton's approach to the economy while promising he would provide deep tax cuts and jolt middle class workers back to prosperity.

A hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders and specializing in pediatrics in a rebel-held northern Syria province has been destroyed in a series of airstrikes over the weekend that killed 13 people, including four staff and five children, the international medical charity said Monday.

The Government Accountability Office says in a new report that agencies aren't really backing up their claims that telework is benefiting them. So if you can't effectively evaluate a program as big as this one, how do you really know it's good for the government and should grow?

Almost two weeks after several U.S. Special Operations troops were wounded fighting Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan, the militant group's media arm has posted photos of American equipment, including weapons and a radio that, they say, were captured from U.S. soldiers fighting in the same region.

Iranians are no longer allowed to catch Pikachus after authorities decided to ban the "Pokemon Go" mobile game because of security concerns.

We ought to stop casually throwing around terms like "crazy" in this political campaign and our daily lives. The president of the American Psychiatric Association has said that even for professionals, these sorts of diagnoses, made from afar, are "unethical" and "irresponsible." And they only serve to demean and undercut people.

The easiest way to think about this is as a four-stage cycle of doom that begins with inflation, continues to price controls, then shortages, and finally nationalizations. Here's how it works, or rather doesn't.

London's legal establishment was overwhelmingly in favor of remaining within the EU. No one was surprised when a handful of legal claims emerged after the referendum to challenge the Brexit process. The question is, can they delay or even derail Britain's departure from the bloc?

Programs to detect and prevent radicalization work further upstream. Hundreds of such efforts are now in progress in cities all over the world, deploying a wide range of tools and strategies. They will increasingly be required to counter what French philosopher Bernard Henry Levi recently called "the uberization of opportunistic mass terrorism."

Despite the vocal emphasis on law and order and, more specifically, victim’s rights by some lawmakers, prosecutors and law enforcement, America’s everyday record on protecting the rights of victims is decidedly mixed.

Terrorism was clearly trending down globally as President Barack Obama took office, according to the University of Maryland’s Global Terrorism Database. But that desirable trend has reversed, and nowhere is the upswing in terror activity more glaring than here in the American homeland.