Новости за 01.06.2017

Reports that President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was trying to establish a secret line of communication between the Trump transition team and Russian government officials have raised concerns among U.S. defense and intelligence experts. However, throughout recent history, the United States and other nations have used private communications and secret negotiations to reach consensus and forge deals.

The bird, assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, out of Katterbach, landed in the field about 3 p.m. Wednesday as a precautionary measure after a sensor went off, said Capt. Jaymon Bell, 12th CAB spokesman.

Afghans mourned the loss of family members, friends and colleagues on Thursday, a day after a massive truck bomb exploded in the capital, leaving at least 90 people dead and more than 450 others wounded in one of the worst extremist attacks since the drawdown of foreign forces from Afghanistan in 2014.

They are veterans of Syria's rebellion, trying for years to bring down President Bashar Assad. But these days they're doing little fighting with his military. They're struggling to find a place in a bewildering battlefield where several wars are all being waged at once by international powers.

A new study is launching at a time when veterans have been at the center of a national conversation on medical marijuana. The American Legion is attempting to apply political pressure to support marijuana research, and just yesterday, VA Secretary David Shulkin said he was open to looking at – and learning from – any evidence marijuana could be used to treat veterans.

The Navy and Trump administration spent weeks arguing for a dramatic expansion of the Navy fleet, from the current 275 ships to 355. But the submitted budget leans more toward funding readiness, which includes maintenance and training.

Stepping back from a campaign promise, President Donald Trump on Thursday decided not to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, at least for the next six months. The White House described Trump's waiver as a move to improve chances for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, but the relocation also risked igniting tensions across the Middle East.

Burial in national cemeteries is normally granted to military veterans and their spouses. But Noorchashm said federal law provides that “civilians of significant and exceptional contribution to America’s health and safety“ may be accorded that honor at the discretion of the veterans affairs secretary.

A senior law enforcement official at the Interior Department who investigators documented had sexually harassed six women who worked for him or with him has retired, rather than face discipline, according to agency officials familiar with the terms of his departure.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke issued a directive aimed at spurring oil and natural gas development in Alaska, including a move to assess just how much crude might be lurking under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

U.S. soldiers training last week at Ghana’s “eye-opening" Jungle Warfare School learned jungle navigation, ambush offense and survival tactics. They also ate a python.

A local Republican committee is urging veterans to take their business away from New Orleans in the wake of the city’s removal of four Confederate monuments.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the world's No. 1 polluter will stick to its pledges to tackle global warming, underscoring the risk of U.S. isolation if President Donald Trump pulls out of the Paris climate accord.

A U.S. Navy officer will soon be sentenced for revealing military secrets and other crimes.

The founder of the Islamic State group news agency was reportedly killed in an airstrike in eastern Syria, activists and his brother said. The militant group itself has not reported the death of the founder of Aamaq news agency, Baraa Kadek.

A massive suicide truck bombing rocked a highly secured diplomatic area of Kabul, killing 90 people and wounding as many as 400. A look at some of the lingering issues after Wednesday's attack.

Ultra-quiet, electric motorcycles designed to help fighters sneak up on the enemy are getting closer to the battlefield, according to a company building prototypes for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Afghans on Thursday mourned the loss of family members, friends and colleagues a day after a massive truck bomb in the capital left at least 90 people dead and more than 450 others wounded in one of the worst extremist attacks since the drawdown of foreign forces from Afghanistan in 2014.

Terry Dione Lindon, a U.S. Army Reserve colonel is accused of punching his 12-year-old son several times in the face in a restaurant parking lot, according to court documents.

A Malaysia Airlines plane returned to Australia after a mentally ill passenger threatened to detonate a bomb and attempted to enter the cockpit before he was tackled and tied up by passengers, police said Thursday.

Gabriel Antonio Fuentes-Lebrón and his girlfriend, Savannah Cagle, a seaman apprentice in the Navy, died after a motorcycle crash May 18 in Okinawa. His family remembers him as a leader and a devoted son.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is the first leader to visit the Trump White House from Southeast Asia, where the U.S. vies with China for influence. The two leaders said billions of dollars in U.S.-Vietnamese business deals were signed, but gave no details.

An auction of unclaimed servicemember household goods that started a social media firestorm had the military’s blessing and included items that had been abandoned for a decade or more.

An auction of unclaimed servicemember household goods that started a social media firestorm had the military’s blessing and included items that had been abandoned for a decade or more.

A Philippine bomber plane accidentally killed 11 soldiers and injured seven others, security officials said Thursday, as troops struggled to end a bloody siege by 500 Islamic State group-aligned extremists in a southern city, one of the boldest militant attacks in Southeast Asia in years.