Новости за 21.09.2016

A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of gunning down a former Army sniper who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The customers filed a federal class-action lawsuit against companies that manufactured a military firefighting foam that's thought tied to contaminated wells. The foam was used for decades at Peterson Air Force Base.

World leaders from Pakistan to Ukraine unleashed their regional grievances Wednesday, taking the stage of the U.N. General Assembly to rage against their neighbors and presenting a picture of a chaotic world consumed by intractable conflicts.

Federal prosecutors announced an eight-count indictment Tuesday against Patricia P. Driscoll, the ex-girlfriend of NASCAR driver Kurt Busch, charging her with a fraud and tax-evasion scheme as president of the Armed Forces Foundation, a Washington-based charity that assists veterans.

MWR works with taxi companies like Uber that want to provide service to post. Those companies first have to comply with security requirements before their drivers can have access as independent contractors.

An airstrike in northern Syria killed four medics responding to an earlier bombing raid, a relief group said Wednesday, as the U.N. announced it would resume aid deliveries suspended after an attack on a convoy two days ago that killed 20 people.

The new pedestrian underpass would mean veterans and medical staffers no longer have to cross the busy Rockville Pike while traveling between the Metro station and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

“We’ve averted disaster for some time, but it’s going to become a question of when and not if," according to a statement from two congressmen who have been investigating safety and security issues at U.S. laboratories. “This report sounds the alarm.”

A government report released Wednesday said climate change is likely to pose a significant national security challenge for the U.S. over the next two decades by heightening social and political tensions, threatening the stability of some countries and increasing risks to human health.

The Senate on Wednesday backed the Obama administration's plan to sell more than $1 billion worth of American-made tanks and other weapons to Saudi Arabia, soundly defeating a bid to derail the deal pushed by lawmakers critical of the kingdom's role in Yemen's civil war.

James Ziegler proposed a challenge: that he and Vietnam veteran Dave Sloane pedal to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., devoting one day to each of the Army Rangers who died in a crash that Sloane survived.

Yemeni officials say an American who worked as an English teacher in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, has been detained on suspicions of espionage.

Jeff Underwood is historian at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, the largest military aviation museum in the world. The long-time historian retires Sept 30.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday called on Russia and Syria to cease flying over Aleppo, just days after a convoy carrying human-aid supplies to civilians in the besieged city was attacked by warplanes.

One by one, a group of old guard military leadership questioned Trump’s relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and warned the Republican presidential candidate was alienating U.S. allies.

North Korea, like many countries, has its own country code top-level domain name. This means any Web address that ends with ".kp" is linked to the notoriously isolated nation. What's unusual, however, is how few websites actually use that address.

The coveted coins are cloaked in secrecy, just like the spy agency that produces them. So what are CIA-commissioned mementos — brass "challenge coins" most commonly associated with the military — doing up for sale on the internet and by private dealers?

Army officials acknowledge that there is an ongoing discussion about whether boxing should continue in service academies. But, they say, that's a separate debate than whether female cadets should be treated the same as male students and be required to take the same classes, including boxing.

U.S. District Judge John Lee sentenced Hasan Edmonds to the maximum of 30 years in prison for plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack, telling him it was “difficult to think of a more pernicious crime than a soldier betraying his country.”

The graffiti that appeared on a wall near the mosque in Mosul where the Islamic State leader declared his caliphate two years ago was a small but symbolic act of rebellion.

With a temporary truce in Syria in tatters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon implored all warring parties to lay down their arms as the civil war consumed discussions Wednesday at the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders.

Authorities on Canada's Prince Edward Island evacuated all schools and universities across the small province Wednesday, citing a "potential threat" that forced thousands of students to be moved to protected locations.

Deciding to remake “The Magnificent Seven" with a fresh batch of movie stars is certainly no sin. John Sturges’ 1960 tome, itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s classic “Seven Samurai,” is a fun confection of star power and charismatic bravado, sure, but held in such high esteem probably more because of Elmer Bernstein’s iconic score than anything else. Plus, who doesn’t enjoy a ragtag group of outlaws banding together to defeat a powerful bully?

The outgoing commander of an undersea warfighting center in Connecticut says he has been working to make sure technology being developed for the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet is useful when it gets into sailors' hands.

In a public session originally envisioned to enshrine Syria's Sept. 9 truce, world powers were left to rue the possibility of the conflict entering an even darker phase after a series of attacks on humanitarian workers.