Новости за 10.08.2016

A federal judge in San Francisco has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Twitter of supporting the Islamic State group.

For his eighth birthday, A.J. Perkins asked family and friends to think about some of the community’s heroes, including his own father. He would go on to raise almost $1,200 for Disabled American Veterans.

A judge says the government can seize money from life insurance policies taken out by a shooter in the San Bernardino, California, terrorist attack.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is one of 20 museums across the country nominated to compete for the title of favorite free museum in America.

The number is a significant jump from earlier announcements that it would be 700 fighter pilots short by the end of the year, and indicates that despite recent efforts to improve readiness, the fighter pilot shortage will continue to increase.

The new technology could provide a huge boost to government efforts to fully chart the estimated 1,200-plus satellites and objects floating around some 20,000 miles out.

The Navy planned to tow the USS Enterprise to Bremerton, where the remaining parts associated with the reactor plant would be removed and barged to the Hanford nuclear waste dump. It still might do that, but the Navy is exploring its options.

U.S.-led coalition aircraft destroyed an estimated $11 million worth of oil and trucks over the weekend in the largest single airstrike this year against the Islamic State’s black market oil trade in Syria.

Advocates for a transgender soldier imprisoned for sending classified information to an anti-secrecy website presented more than 115,000 petition signatures to the Army's chief Wednesday protesting new charges Chelsea Manning faces related to her recent suicide attempt.

Leaders of a massive, annual motorcycle procession to the three Sept. 11 crash sites said this year's fundraising ride, Aug. 19-21, will be their last.

A former Guatemalan soldier suspected of helping carry out a massacre of more than 160 people in 1982 during the country's civil war was deported from the United States on Wednesday after a court refused his plea to stay because he fears for his life.

U.S.-backed fighters have nearly cleared all Islamic State militants from Manbij, a key northern Syrian city, after months of brutal fighting, Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland said Wednesday.

House Speaker Paul Ryan is like other politicians inspired by, well, politics, more often than principle: The degree to which you are willing to break with Donald Trump depends on how soon, and where, you will be having an encounter with the Republican base he's ignited.

“The words of a president have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately,” President Calvin Coolidge said in his 1929 autobiography.

The resurgent friendship between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a strange thing: Putin knows what he wants from Erdogan, and he's gone his half of the way, but he's not getting it yet despite Erdogan's exaggerated show of friendliness.

The lack of transparent monitoring has been a major point of unease among critics and initial supporters of the nuclear agreement alike.

Don’t look too closely at what we do. That’s the order from the Obama administration. It has spied on reporters, threatened them with jail and thwarted interviews. It has tricked the press into inaccuracy. More than a half million times last year it came up short on citizen requests for government information.

Deterrence, as this policy is known, has been the backbone of U.S. national security for decades. That a candidate for the highest office in the land needs this explained to him, not once but thrice, should give every voter pause.

If you’re going to vote for Hillary Clinton for president, don’t do it because she’s a woman. In fact, ask yourself: If a man had the same policy platform, track record and resume as Clinton, would you vote for him? There. I said it.

It’s easily forgotten that Congress and the Obama administration did the health insurance industry an enormous favor in enacting the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Several favors, in fact.

Once you have a smartphone, you are never entirely there again. Some part of you is always elsewhere, either inside the screen, or waiting to be summoned.

The distant future is no longer distant. The pace of technological change is rapidly accelerating, and those changes are coming to you very soon, whether you like it or not.

Wait: How did this happen? How did a remake of the 1977 Disney animation/live-action hybrid "Pete's Dragon," a pushy mediocrity from tip to tail, become the most soulful film of the summer, and one of the best of the year?

Lt. David Nartker was the most senior of the 10 sailors seized with their riverine command boats after the vessels crossed into Iran’s territorial waters. Nartker was filmed apologizing for the incident, among other images spread on Twitter and Iranian television for propaganda purposes.

A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in Turkey's mainly-Kurdish southeast killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, as Turkey was still dealing with the aftermath of a failed military coup attempt that threatened the government.