Новости за 11.01.2017

For those who insist that traveling is all about the journey, we say this: It really depends on which carrier you're flying.

It's unclear what prompted the decision to cancel the House Armed Services Committee hearing, scheduled for the same day of his confirmation hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In a move that goes against his vow to completely overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs, President-elect Donald Trump chose Dr. David Shulkin, current VA under secretary for health, to lead the department.

In a political environment where every action generates an equal and opposite reaction, restaurants that want to signal their discomfort with the policies of the incoming Trump administration have to orchestrate their moves carefully during inauguration weekend.

In a political environment where every action generates an equal and opposite reaction, restaurants that want to signal their discomfort with the policies of the incoming Trump administration have to orchestrate their moves carefully during inauguration weekend.

An elite Navy dive team's efforts to recover wreckage off the Italian coast and a request from the Defense Personnel Accounting Agency for DNA are offering new hope for closure that eluded Fredrick Siegrist's family for so long.

In an interview this week, French Defense Ministry Jean Yves Le Drian said France must respond to an unprecedented level of cyber attacks and acknowledged France's infrastructure, media, and democracy are vulnerable to cyber incursions.

The Taliban have released a video showing an American and an Australian who were kidnapped in August, the first time they've been seen since their abduction.

Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, said Wednesday during his Senate confirmation hearing that the United States should stand firm against Russia but could use new dialogue to ease an increasingly hostile relationship.

In just 70 miles on Colorado's San Juan Skyway, I photographed a neon hot spring, cowgirls on horseback, hillsides blazing with Aspen, abandoned mines, sheer cliffs, harrowing drops, mountains rising more than 13,000 feet and the funky former mining town of Silverton with its namesake railroad.

The base was established in 1942 to train Marines for combat in World War II. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the base in honor of World War I Maj. Gen. Joseph H. Pendleton.

As part of the Iron Brigade’s push from Fort Carson to bases across NATO’s eastern flank, mechanics are working overtime to keep the many convoys going, a key cog in one of the largest U.S. troop mobilizations in Europe since the end of the Cold War.

"This case is largely motivated with the interest of protecting future military members from being made a part of this scam or others like it," said attorney Todd Gaynor, who declined to comment further.

Truck bombs, the Islamic State group’s signature battlefield tactic, have become less effective on the advancing Iraqi security forces as they slowly wrest Mosul from the terrorist group, a top U.S. commander said Wednesday.

Head coach Stefanie Pemper implemented an up-tempo philosophy that took advantage of the team's perimeter talent and masked its lack of size.

Nearly two months into the assault, Turkey has become bogged down in an unexpectedly bloody fight to retake the Islamic State group's last stronghold in northern Syria. It has been forced to pour in troops, take the lead in the battle from its Syrian allies and reach out to Russia for aerial support.

The Israeli military on Wednesday said it had uncovered a plot by the Hamas militant group to spy on soldiers by hacking their mobile phones after posing as women and befriending them on social media.

Will the symbols of American and Chinese naval might meet in the waters of the disputed South China Sea soon? Probably not. But the U.S. Navy’s 3rd Fleet deployment of its USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group late last week to the Western Pacific has raised eyebrows in China.

Airstrikes in the northern Syrian province of Idlib killed at least 10 suspected al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of targeted attacks against the group, activists said.

Two 2nd Infantry Division soldiers have been indicted in connection with a $10 million methamphetamine smuggling case involving the U.S. military postal service, officials said Wednesday.

Republican Rep. Jeff Denham of California will test President-elect Donald Trump’s hard line on immigration with a revived bill extending legal status to young immigrants in the U.S. illegally who join the U.S. military.

Hours before his first news conference as president-elect, Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted U.S. intelligence agencies, blaming them for leaking unsubstantiated reports on his relationship with Russia and demanding, "Are we living in Nazi Germany?"

In a combative and freewheeling news conference, President-elect Donald Trump said for the first time Wednesday that he accepts Russia was behind the election year hacking of Democrats that roiled the White House race. Looking ahead, he urged Congress to move quickly to replace President Barack Obama's signature health care law and insisted anew that Mexico will pay the cost of a border wall.

As gunnery officer on a Navy destroyer during the Vietnam War, Joe Rank managed several dozen gunners' mates and fire-control technicians who operated the 5-inch guns that blasted the enemy.

Aid agencies including UNICEF are profiting from funds meant to help those fleeing Boko Haram's Islamic uprising and should leave the country, the governor of Nigeria's northeastern Borno state says, even as the agencies warn of mass starvation and accuse the government of underplaying the crisis.