Новости за 12.08.2016

New York regulators have declared Stewart Air National Guard base a state Superfund site to speed cleanup of contamination from a toxic chemical in fire-fighting foam.

Timothy Andrews Jr. of Essex was a pacifist, according to family lore. But that stance is hard to square with his decision to enlist in the 39th Massachusetts Volunteers in 1862. Already in his 30s, he stayed until the guns fell silent in 1865.

A fishing crew apparently pulled up unexploded ordnance while clamming, leading to a fisherman being hospitalized with second-degree burns and the destruction of more than 700 cases of chowder, officials said.

A top Islamic State group leader in Afghanistan was killed in a U.S. drone strike last month, the Pentagon confirmed, saying his death will affect the group's recruiting and operations in the region.

Hillary and Bill Clinton earned $10.6 million last year, according to a tax filing released by her campaign Friday that sought to pressure presidential rival Donald Trump to disclose his tax returns.

United Nations peacekeepers in South Sudan have a robust new mandate and thousands of additional troops despite government opposition to the move, raising the possibility of clashes between blue helmets and the country's armed forces.

Capt. James Ahn stepped onto a small plane on the Olympic Peninsula with his Special Forces team almost a year ago and incorrectly rigged his parachute, setting him up for a challenging jump. But that isn’t what killed the Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier.

“Abzu” draws liberally from the motifs of Matt Nava’s “Flower” and “Journey.” Similar to “Flower,” it is a hymn to ecology, to bringing things into a more vibrant state of being. And like “Journey,” it gives the sense of a spiritual pilgrimage amongst consecrated spaces. In fact, the word “abzu” traces its origin back to the ancient people of Sumer — the earliest known urban dwellers — who believed that the abzu were the primal waters between earth and the underworld.

For the first time in its distinguished history, the U.S. women's soccer team has failed to advance to the semifinals of a major tournament. The three-time gold medalists were upset by Sweden on penalty kicks, 4-3, following a 1-1 draw Friday at the Olympic Games.

Dictators who fear their enemies also look for allies. But they don't want allies who will criticize what they are doing, either out loud or by example. And so, in the wake of the failed coup and the successful crackdown, Recep Tayyip Erdogan naturally sought out the company of Vladimir Putin.

The $400 million payment was not a ransom but rather part of a settlement agreement that the United States reached with Iran for claims arising out of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which toppled the pro-American shah and brought the current Islamist government to power.

Conspiracy chatter isn't an occasional interruption that flares up on the fringes in especially weird election years. It's a regular feature of American politics.

As two strong conservatives, let us set the record straight. Statements on rising murders are highly misleading. The truth is that Americans are still experiencing hard-won historic lows in crime.

Trauma is being used to describe an increasingly wide array of events. By today's standards, it can be caused by a microaggression, reading something offensive without a trigger warning or even watching upsetting news unfold on television. As one blogger wrote, "Trauma now seems to be pretty much anything that bothers anyone, in any way, ever."

Marni Gustavson's eyes brimmed with tears as she watched a dozen Afghan children learning the words to Prince's "Purple Rain." "It's a tribute," she said, to the artist who quietly donated funds that helped pay for the building she was standing in, the headquarters of Afghanistan's national scout movement.

The U.S. military wants drones, gliders or other airborne delivery vehicles to vanish once they safely send supplies or intelligence to troops, aid workers or agents in hostile territory or behind enemy lines. And researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on it.

President Vladimir Putin on Friday abruptly replaced his longtime chief of staff with a low-profile younger aide, the latest in a series of moves by the Russian leader to rid himself of members of his old guard.

In laying out his case this week for a lower corporate income tax, Donald Trump renewed his criticism of the financial maneuvers known as “inversions” that allow U.S. companies to lower their tax bills by shifting their legal addresses abroad. Hillary Clinton condemns the practice, too.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Friday Russia could break diplomatic ties with Ukraine over reported security incidents in Crimea, something it didn't even do after annexing Crimea or throwing its support behind separatist rebels in the east.

Over four months, Donald Trump spent more than 20 hours talking to Washington Post reporters who were working on a biography, titled "Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power," which will be published by Scribner on Aug. 23. Here is an abridged excerpt.

It is a complicated and messy battlefield that could easily unleash new conflicts as the victors of the war turn on one another in a scramble to control the territories left behind.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday he wanted his government to hold peace talks with the two largest Muslim rebel groups in the south at the same time and preferred to negotiate with rather than confront China on their territorial disputes.

State officials have confirmed a third new case of Legionnaires' disease at a western Illinois veterans' home since an outbreak there last year killed 12 people and sickened 54.

A simmering crisis over the survival of Afghanistan's two-man National Unity Government has burst into the open, revealing a deep split between President Ashraf Ghani and chief executive Abdullah Abdullah as a political deadline for their tenuous power-sharing agreement looms with the government's two-year anniversary next month.

Airstrikes in opposition areas of Syria's northern Aleppo province struck a market, a hospital and a village on Friday, killing at least 18 people, including children and two hospital staffers, activists and rescue workers said.