Новости за 21.12.2016

Denzel Washington's film version of the August Wilson play "Fences" opens around the country on Christmas Day, but it's a story nearly 30 years in the making.

The Department of Defense is providing $80 million to establish a bio-research and manufacturing institute in Manchester, New Hampshire, to develop transplant tissues and organs for injured American troops and other patients.

Sloan Gibson, the deputy secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs, is urging the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee to lift restrictions on employee bonuses instituted by Congress this year to crack down on misconduct.

A special ceremony was held to rename the auditorium inside the 42nd Air Base Wing headquarters in Staff Sgt. Chester McBride's honor. The ceremony also commemorated the one-year anniversary of his death in Afghanistan.

A soldier was denied the chance to rent a hotel room in southwest Florida because he is under age 21, even though a state law waives a minimum age requirement for people with military ID cards.

Hill has determined that vapor intrusion is most likely to occur in specific areas in six cities. While the base works to test those approximately 1,200 homes, 465 residences in the same areas will likely be removed from the program.

The Middle East regional chaos has weakened Israel's enemies and created a low probability of war involving the country in 2017, a senior Israeli military officer said on Wednesday.

A U.S.-based Muslim cleric on Thursday condemned the killing of Russia's envoy to Turkey and rejected accusations that his movement was behind the attack.

Turkey's president on Wednesday implicated a U.S.-based Muslim cleric in the killing of Russia's envoy to Turkey, saying the policeman who carried out the attack was a member of his "terror organization."

The Occupational Physical Assessment Test will be administered to new recruits and soldiers interested in physically demanding specialties. Officials have pointed to a loss of troops who are fit enough for combat as a concern that drove development of the test.

The U.S. Border Patrol seized more than $3 million that was being smuggled from the U.S. into Mexico.

Five veterans from the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys were awarded France’s Legion d’Honneur, the country’s highest honor, for their valor in helping liberate France during World War II.

The Kremlin hopes that Donald Trump's administration will help improve the strained Russia-U.S. ties that it describes as "frozen," but it doesn't expect any immediate breakthroughs, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Wednesday.

Germany on Wednesday launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a "violent and armed" Tunisian man with ties to Islamic extremists who has used at least six different names and three different nationalities, saying he is a suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack.

Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, as one of his brothers urged him to surrender.

Authorities across Europe scrambled Thursday to track down a Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin as one of his brothers urged him to surrender.

German officials had deemed the Tunisian man being sought in a manhunt across Europe a threat long before a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin - and even kept him under covert surveillance for six months this year before halting the operation.

The bill could ease restrictions on businesses by excluding spouses of active duty servicemembers from determinations under the employer health insurance mandate. Military spouses already receive health care through the military's Tricare system.

The spokesman for President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday indicated that Moscow doesn't believe the gunman who killed Russia's ambassador to Turkey acted on his own, but refused to explain the reasons for the suspicion.

Dave and Sue Prentiss were ready for some attention when the story of their former missile silo being on the market broke last year. They just thought it would come from interested buyers. Instead, the Limestone couple found themselves responding to interview requests from print and broadcast media outlets from around the country.

Syrian rebels resumed their evacuation from Aleppo on Wednesday, paving the way for the government to reassume control of the war-torn city.

German authorities have launched a Europe-wide manhunt for a Tunisian man with ties to Islamic extremists who has been identified as a suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack, lawmakers said Wednesday.

Human Rights Watch says that sworn testimony from six Colombian generals implicates the former head of the U.S.-backed army in the extrajudicial killings of civilians.

The U.S. State Department has reissued a travel warning for the Philippines, citing terrorism and kidnapping concerns in the southern part of the 7,000-island nation.

A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban says the group is ready for peace talks with the United States, if their demands are met.