Новости за 05.01.2017

For about 10 hours in 1980, the U.S. faced a nuclear threat of its own making after an airman dropped a 9-pound socket 70 feet, ripping a hole in a Titan II missile fuel tank and causing an explosion that propelled the warhead out of the ground.

The Israeli military, which has battled foes on all of the country's borders, is now facing a challenge from within: nationalist politicians who are openly disagreeing with army commanders and bickering with the security establishment.

An Army soldier hoping to join the elite 75th Ranger Regiment soon was hospitalized with severe facial injuries in a New Year’s Day incident in Philadelphia, according to Army and police officials.

A good old-fashioned road trip -- one fueled by roadside diners, stops at oddball attractions and frequent forays into nature -- does the soul good. At least that's what I found when I flew to El Paso, Texas, and joined GeoBetty Tours for a five-day spin through southeastern New Mexico.

In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump signaling big changes at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Secretary Bob McDonald appealed to the new administration Thursday in an exit memo not to abandon initiatives that he started at the agency during his two-year tenure.

Former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats is the front-runner to become Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, according to two people familiar with the decision.

The beach town of Lahaina in western Maui was once the capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, a place where kings were born. It later became a key port at the height of the 19th century whaling boom.

Whether you're swooning over Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling or marveling over just how great Los Angeles looks on the silver screen, there's little doubt that the new "La La Land" has put L.A. in the romantic spotlight.

A final report by intelligence agencies on Russian hacking during the election will be released early next week and will include Moscow’s motives for the interference, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate on Thursday.

Army criminal investigators said Thursday that they began looking into the disappearance of two soldiers from Fort Bliss, Texas on Dec. 31, nearly two weeks after they were first reported missing by family members and their commanders.

Quarterbacks Christian Anderson and Clay Czyzynski joined Army's 2017 class on Monday by making verbal commitments.

The allegation emerged as Staff Sgt. Antonio B. Burke, a Parris Island drill instructor, became the first Marine to face a hearing in a series of cases involving hazing and abuse allegations over the last couple of years.

Drill instructors at the Marine Corps recruit center at Parris Island, South Carolina, drank alcohol on the job and repeatedly ordered recruits to do illegal calisthenics in a decrepit building called "the dungeon," recruits testified here Thursday.

The Army has made it easier for Sikhs and observers of other religions to serve in uniform while upholding the tenets of their faiths by simplifying the process to receive a religious appearance accommodation.

Play the free association game with "Freeport" and you will most likely blurt out "outlets." But the retail topography is changing. Made-in-Maine signs appear in shop windows, and labels on handmade goods proudly hail their place of birth.

Five months after his 32nd birthday, Aaron Causey stepped on a bomb. The newlywed from Alabama was on his second overseas Army deployment, working as an explosives technician in Afghanistan. That morning in 2011, blast ripped off his legs and traveled through his groin.

At one point in Marvel’s R-rated superhero movie “Deadpool,” the titular character pauses in the midst of graphic bloodshed and flashes back to a memory of - there’s no polite way to say this - his sexually pleasuring himself while staring hungrily at a stuffed unicorn.

An engine from a B-52 fell off during a training flight near Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, the Air Force confirmed Thursday.

The National Defense Authorization Act (S 2943) signed into law Dec. 23 orders an avalanche of changes to the Tricare health care benefit used by servicemembers, retirees and their families. It also makes sweeping reforms to how the military direct-care system is organized and operates.

The Japanese government intends to expand DNA tests conducted on the remains of war dead to include leg and arm bones, in a bid to identify more Japanese victims of World War II, according to sources.

Nigeria's military says soldiers have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram nearly three years ago wandering in the bush near the Islamic extremist group's forest stronghold.

A committee appointed by Sri Lanka's government recommended that both local and international judges be appointed to the court that would investigate allegations of war crimes from the country's civil war.

Okinawa Marines traveled to mainland Japan to set up and practice landing on a makeshift runway, a task they could be ordered to perform during conflicts or after a natural disaster.

The USS Ronald Reagan carrier group is getting a new Airborne Early Warning Squadron as the Navy moves closer to relocating Naval Air Station Atsugi units to Iwakuni.

"The Barbers just like to fly," said Kyle Odom, a family friend said of Greg "Spanky" Barber, a retired lieutenant colonel, and his son Tim Barber, who was home on break from the U.S. Air Force Academy. "They were doing what they loved together."