Новости за 30.05.2017

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has dismissed allegations of Russian meddling in last year's U.S. presidential election as "fiction" invented by Democrats to divert the blame for their defeat.

The United States began providing weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters for the first time Tuesday, a Pentagon official said, equipping the group to participate in the impending assault on the Islamic State’s capital of Raqqa despite objections from American ally Turkey.

An ancient artifact lost in the chaos of World War II. An American scientist hunting for Nazi secret weapons. An archaeologist who dug into dusty archives to prove a hunch. No, this is not the plot of an Indiana Jones movie.

Naval Academy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk said a contract has been signed with the National Hockey League to have the Capitals host the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday, March 3, 2018 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

The U.S. military faces a two-decade struggle to help bring stability to Africa, where the lack of an overall government strategy is complicating operations, according to the general in charge of special operations on the continent.

A Virginia Beach man was rescued by the Coast Guard Tuesday morning after his sailboat started sinking in stormy weather off Tangier Island.

Diana, princess of the Amazons, better known as Wonder Woman, has spent 75 years saving the world in DC comic books and TV shows, and has fought alongside Batman and Superman with her sword and Lasso of Truth. Still, her male counterparts have hogged the big-screen glory.

It’s taken 76 years for the comic book character Wonder Woman to lasso her way onto the big screen in her very own standalone film, and it’s not a moment too soon. “Wonder Woman” arrives in theaters under an intense amount of scrutiny. The first female-starring superhero film directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins, carries the burden of representing half the population, and her success could determine the fates of other female superhero films. Not only that, but after a string of superhero blockbusters that have been battered by critics... Читать дальше...

Patty Jenkins has never understood why people want to mess with Wonder Woman. To take the glorious Amazonian goddess, with her tiara and bracelets, her breastplate and hot pants, and try to make her modern or human or somehow more “real” simply made no sense.

An investigation is ongoing into the death of a Mississippi Army National Guard soldier killed Monday evening during “a large-scale training exercise” at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif.

U.S.-backed fighters on Tuesday reached the northern entrance of the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State group, amid intense clashes and airstrikes on Raqqa's northern and eastern edges, opposition activists said.

Greater Manchester Police briefly asked the public to stay out of a neighborhood in the nearby town of Wigan on Tuesday as a bomb disposal unit searched for explosives — part of the investigation into the attack that hit an Ariana Grande concert.

"We improve and learn from each test, regardless of the outcome. That's the reason we conduct them," said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. "We look forward to understanding the results so we can continue to mature the system and stay ahead of the threat."

Military officials say the lockdown of Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas has been lifted after a preliminary search of a community center there did not reveal any danger.

The United States has warned Iran-backed forces fighting for the Syrian government to move away from a base in southern Syria where U.S. troops train anti-Islamic State fighters, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.

A Malmstrom Air Force Base helicopter crew located the girls on a ledge on Tuesday morning in Sluice Boxes State Park. They were reported missing just before 9 p.m. Monday when they did not meet family in the park's lower parking area.

Three Mile Island's owner, Exelon Corp., announced Tuesday that the plant that was the site of a terrifying partial meltdown in 1979 will close in 2019 unless the state of Pennsylvania comes to its financial rescue.

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, a onetime U.S. ally who was ousted as Panama's dictator by an American invasion in 1989, died late Monday at age 83.

A distinct component of the Peace of Mind program is the involvement of host communities — something that would be difficult for any other country in the world to replicate.

A Czech court ruled Tuesday that a Russian man who faces charges of hacking computers at American companies can be extradited to the U.S. or Russia — and the suspect immediately appealed his possible extradition to the United States.

Ben Chitrit was a paratrooper — trained, fit, ready. When a disturbance came in the middle of the night, he reacted instinctively, as if the war he had left years earlier had reached the shores of his idyllic island retreat.

Michael Dubke is the latest White House staffer to leave the administration as scrutiny intensifies over contacts President Trump's staffers may have had with Russian government officials during the campaign and transition.

To disenfranchise a person who has been invited to present ideas simply because those ideas are disagreeable to some, or even to a majority, has no place in the college agenda as long as hate or the promotion of illegal activity are not the speaker’s object.

Remington J. Peters, 27, was a member of the elite Navy parachute team called the Leap Frogs. His parachute failed to open during a Fleet Week New York demonstration over the Hudson River on Sunday.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's coalition partner warned that a proposal to broaden the military's role to strike back against enemy attacks risks upsetting Japan's neighbors.