Новости за 14.06.2017

The Michigan attorney general's office on Wednesday charged the director of the state's health department and four other public officials with involuntary manslaughter for their roles in the Flint water crisis, which has stretched into its third year.

The announcement came after the country’s six largest veterans service organizations condemned the proposal.

The announcement came after the country’s six largest veterans service organizations condemned the proposal.

U.S. Navy Cmdr. Bill Urban says an Iranian naval patrol boat shined a laser at a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz and also turned its spotlight on two Navy ships that were moving through the strait on Tuesday.

In defiance of a court ruling, Egypt's parliament voted on Wednesday to ratify a disputed 2016 agreement that would transfer two strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. has deployed a truck-mounted missile system into Syria, an official said Wednesday, to a forward operating group of rebels and U.S. military advisers that have repeatedly clashed with government forces.

When Roy Shenkel rides aloft in a restored Boeing B-17 airplane Saturday, it will be far less dramatic than his last trip inside one of those bombers.

Two Georgia cellmates who killed their guards and escaped from a prison bus have stolen a second vehicle as they try to stay ahead of a massive manhunt, a sheriff said Wednesday.

Washington state’s compliance rate with Selective Service requirements is especially low, federal officials say. Fewer than 84 percent of 18- to 25-year old men in Washington registered in 2016, according to numbers from the Selective Service.

James T. Hodgkinson, 66, had a long history of lashing out at Republicans and once frightened a neighbor by firing a rifle into a field behind his Illinois house.

London firefighters traumatized by the devastation they witnessed in a high-rise apartment blaze that killed at least 17 people worked Thursday to make the building safe so they could continue the search for more victims.

U.S. officials are blaming the North Korean government for a series of cyberattacks dating to 2009 against media, aerospace, financial sectors and infrastructure in the United States and around the world.

As North Korea conducted missile tests and the new U.S. administration threatened preemptive military action, many Americans living among the Camp Humphreys military community wondered what to do if war ever broke out.

A UPS employee opened fire inside a San Francisco package delivery facility on Wednesday, before the drivers were sent out to do their normal daily deliveries. The shooting prompted a massive police response in the neighborhood near downtown.

Qatar said Wednesday it has pulled all of its troops from the border of Djibouti and Eritrea, east African nations that have a long-running territorial dispute which Doha had helped mediate.

In a city often known for its ugly politics, the Congressional Baseball Game was that rare bird: an event that brought lawmakers from both sides of the aisle together for a day of genuinely good-natured competition.

A rifle-wielding attacker opened fire on Republican lawmakers at a congressional baseball practice Wednesday, wounding House GOP Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana and several others. The assailant, prepared with "a lot of ammo," fought a gun battle with police before he, too, was shot and later died.

The Army wants to retain a strategic base in Mannheim that was slated for closure, in order to support a growing mission in Europe, where the service also is investigating potential new operational sites should the Pentagon decide to deploy more soldiers overseas in the future.

An Afghan official says Islamic State fighters have captured some territory around Tora Bora, the former stronghold of Osama bin Laden in eastern Nangarhar province.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, once a combat surgeon, compared the scene Wednesday morning at a Republican Party baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., to a battlefield.

Rep. Brad Wenstrup, once a combat surgeon, compared the scene Wednesday morning at a Republican Party baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., to a battlefield.

Islamic State drones are attacking U.S. Special Operations forces located around the group's de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria, American officials and Syrian fighters said, sometimes disrupting the ability of American troops to call in airstrikes.

U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, was one of five people shot and wounded by a rifle-wielding gunman Wednesday at a congressional baseball practice just outside of Washington. President Donald Trump said the shooter has died.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about shooting in Alexandria, Virginia. The shooter has died, he said.

The three American citizens still being held in North Korea are in fairly healthy condition and were allowed to meet with the State Department's top official on North Korea, Joseph Yun, when he traveled to Pyongyang earlier this week.