Новости за 17.07.2017

The idea for the memorial was spurred by the death of a young Marine from Stafford — Sgt. Donald Lamar — who was killed in combat in Afghanistan.

The director and chief of staff of the VA hospital in Manchester, N.H., have been removed from their posts following a news report of dirty conditions, long patient wait times and substandard care, Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin announced Sunday.

A new fellowship program in the Pikes Peak region is helping veterans translate their military skills into jobs with local government.

Joe Biden's memoir is coming out Nov. 14 and will be called "Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose."

A 70-year-old Army veteran has been fired from a Houston-area Home Depot after trying to stop suspected shoplifters from taking thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise.

Australian Army Lt. Benjamin Sloane smiled as he contemplated the similarities — both cultural and tactical — he has with his U.S. military contemporaries taking part in Talisman Saber drills Down Under.

Children are ruining the world, according to recent reporting at least. The overpopulation doomsayers are at it again.

As the Manhattan Project showed, perseverance and resources matter.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to preside over the commissioning this week of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, even though it won't be ready for its first combat deployment for at least four years, according to congressional auditors.

The Australian military’s largest amphibious landing since World War II ended up in someone’s backyard.

A staff sergeant with the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade faces trial this week in Germany on charges that he murdered his infant son in 2015.

Frustrated by delayed promises from the U.S. military for citizenship, and in fear of the Islamic State if he were deported back to Iraq, Ranj Rafeeq has given up the American Dream for a Canadian one.

U.S. scouts sneaked across the river in darkness, looking to eliminate an enemy seeking to stymie the advance of allied forces waiting on the other side.

A military court convicted a Jordanian soldier on Monday in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers at a Jordanian air base and sentenced him to life in prison with hard labor.

South Korea’s new government proposed rare talks with the North on easing border tensions and holding family reunions, offering an olive branch despite rising tensions over the communist state’s nuclear weapons program.

Adults, teens and children as young as 2 were enjoying a summer afternoon by cooling off in an Arizona creek when the gentle waters turned deadly.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, at the center of multiple probes into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, seeks sanctuary from the swirling eddy of news coverage in the beach town where he grew up surfing and skateboarding, one of nine siblings crammed into a 1,200-square foot house.

Bob Wolff, the only sportscaster to call play-by-play of championships in all four major North American professional team sports, has died. He was 96.

One hundred and fifty U.S. troops more accustomed to training in Alaska’s extreme cold found themselves trudging Down Under in the tropical heat this week.

He was only 12 when he first stole into Israel from his home in a Palestinian farming village in the West Bank to find work. A few weeks later, he returned with more than $2,000 in wages.

A northern Illinois judge will rule next month on whether DNA evidence can be used at the trial of a former Marine accused of fatally stabbing two girls.

As flames raged through a Honolulu high-rise building, killing three people and injuring a dozen others, some residents didn't even realize a blaze had broken out until they opened their doors or saw firefighters racing to battle the inferno.

The United Arab Emirates orchestrated the hacking of Qatari government news and social media sites in order to post incendiary false quotes attributed to Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, in late May that sparked the ongoing upheaval between Qatar and its neighbors, according to U.S. intelligence officials.

President Donald Trump's attorney insisted Sunday there was nothing illegal in the meeting Trump's eldest son had with a Russian lawyer during last year's presidential campaign.

Dozens of visitors to Fort Bragg last month found themselves thrust into the center of a conflict that has been raging for more than 50 years.