Новости за 10.12.2016

Despite every reason to be disheartened – after all, the Black Knights haven’t come out on top of the vaunted rivalry game in 14 years – the West Point cadets, veterans and alums who poured into the Baltimore Ravens' stadium remained optimistic about the outcome of Saturday’s game.

Sophomore Zach Abey, through an improbable series of circumstances, is set to make the first start of his Navy career in a game both service academies value winning more than any other on the schedule.

Legislation that includes reparations for Guam residents who experienced atrocities during World War II is waiting on President Barack Obama's signature.

Despite Gov. Mark Dayton's objections, six massive paintings depicting Minnesota soldiers in Civil War battles will be rehung in the Governor's Reception Room and anteroom at the newly renovated State Capitol.

The words at the top of the town's Veterans Memorial say "To Those Who Served Both God and Country," and local veterans want the wording to stay just that way.

The Arizona Air National Guard base on the south side of Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix is being renamed to honor Barry Goldwater, the late Arizona senator and former Air National Guard member.

Legislation to honor an Ohio soldier who died in the Vietnam War by naming a Veterans Affairs clinic for him has been sent to President Barack Obama's desk.

A suicide bomber on Saturday blew himself up inside an army base in the southern city of Aden, killing 45 soldiers and wounding another 50, security officials said.

Olga Perez Stable Cox, a professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., unleashed a multi-minute, hyperbole-filled harangue in which she called Donald Trump's election an "act of terrorism," referred to the president-elect as a "white supremacist" and said "we have been assaulted."

Belgian-based team finds itself 3-0 and atop the Division I heap.

Peshmerga Col. Nabi Ahmed Mohammed's force of 300 fighters had been tasked with securing Bashiqa as part of the Iraqi military's offensive against the Islamic State in nearby Mosul. At least eight peshmerga were killed in taking the bombed-out town. Now, Mohammed's men are making plans for a permanent presence there.

Royals 3-0 after Friday victory over Wiesbaden, while Falcons are 4-0 after sweep of AFNORTH.

A member of Congress who served as a Marine in Iraq said he has been called "everything you can under the sun" by fellow veterans for his decision to oppose retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis becoming defense secretary, but he stands by his choice.

Less than 24 hours after President elect-Donald Trump fired off a pair of provocative tweets denouncing Beijing's trade policies and defending his precedent-shattering phone call with Taiwan's leader, China showed Washington it can play hardball, too: It changed its previous position and joined Russia to veto a U.S.-backed resolution calling for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire in Aleppo, essentially condemning besieged Syrian civilians.

An Obama administration envoy has “high confidence” that missing journalist Austin Tice is alive in Syria, Sen. John Cornyn said Friday.

Hundreds more civilians fled what remained of the Syrian opposition's enclave in Aleppo on Saturday as rebels and government forces exchanged artillery and mortar fire across the northern city.

For Colorado Mesa University student Cody Kem, the most challenging part of going to class isn't waking up early or being on time — he's used to that after serving in the Navy for five years.

Yemeni officials say a suicide bomber has blown himself up inside an army base in the southern city of Aden, killing 23 soldiers.

In a recent tweet, a German lawmaker used a highly specific term to describe her anti-migrant angst. Suggesting her country's national identity was under threat, she cried "Umvolkung" - a word roughly translated as "ethnic conversion." It is also a word that was last in vogue when Adolf Hitler ruled the land.

The Myanmar soldiers came in the morning, the young mother says. They set fire to the concrete-and-thatch homes, forcing the villagers to cluster together. When some of her neighbors tried to escape into the fields, they were shot. After that, she says, most people stopped running away.

Both Bucs squads followed sluggish starts with explosive second halves to blow out the visiting Alconbury Dragons.

The only people who need fear Edgar Allen Poe this weekend play in Navy’s defensive backfield. This Poe is not a revered long-dead writer but a 6-4 senior wide receiver for the Army Black Knights and an important downfield threat for an offense largely built on the running game.

Drawing the U.S. deeper into the Syria conflict, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Saturday he is sending 200 more troops to accelerate the push on the Islamic State's self-declared capital of Raqqa.

With an aircraft carrier deployed off Syria's shores and hundreds of new jets, missiles and tanks entering service each year, President Vladimir Putin can project Russian military power on a scale unseen since Soviet times.