Новости за 04.12.2017

John B. Anderson, an Illinois Republican who cultivated a free-thinking reputation during his 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and who mounted a serious third-party bid for the White House in 1980, died Dec. 3 in Washington. He was 95.

Sexually transmitted disease cases are rising in the military in line with a record number of reported cases across the civilian population in the U.S.

Lawyers for a Marine general who was found guilty of contempt of the war court and confined to his trailer park quarters are asking a federal judge to cancel the conviction.

Marine Corps Capt. Wally Blair suffered a traumatic brain injury about three weeks into his deployment to Iraq in September 2007 when a roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle he was riding in. Eight years passed before Blair was diagnosed with TBI and today he is thriving, even working toward a second career as a social studies teacher.

A snowboarder killed when he hit a tree at a Colorado ski area was a 23-year-old soldier from Ohio.

It's nurses like Michelle Post who are on the front lines of a health care system ministering to a rapidly aging population of American veterans whose average age is now 65. There aren't enough nurses like Post to meet the demand.

Each year, the magazine strives to identify "the person or group of people who most influenced the news during the past year, for better or for worse."

It's always been a complex job, requiring U.S. soldiers to help foreign allies fight wars without fighting themselves. The advisers go through training that includes culture, language and mentoring, and has in the past — in Iraq, Syria and Vietnam even — led to mixed results.

Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft, and Twitter have added the digital signatures of 40,000 terrorist videos and images to a shared database as they seek to keep extremist content off their platforms.

The Pentagon is preparing to spend millions of dollars to fix up a Cold War-era air base in Iceland as Washington rushes to keep an eye on a new generation of stealthy Russian submarines slipping into the North Atlantic.

The “Little Rocket Man,” as “the Donald” calls him, seems hell bent for his own destruction. and a whole lot of the rest of us along the way.

Robert Curbeam is vice president and deputy of the space systems division at Raytheon Co. A retired U.S. Navy captain and former NASA astronaut, Curbeam shares the record for most spacewalks — four — by one astronaut during a single space shuttle mission.

President Donald Trump said the centerpiece of his economic policy would be a middle-class tax cut, “the biggest in American history.” That’s not what it turned out to be.

A Drums family recently got to learn more about their relative, who flew planes and helicopters in two wars, worked for commercial airlines, met and flew for celebrities, and continued to fly well into his golden years. And it all started with a photograph at an air show.

The moment when humans meet E.T. is a staple of fiction and speculation, as well as armchair science and conspiracy YouTube. No one has predicted the psychological reactions to extraterrestrial microorganisms in a "systematic, careful way," an Arizona State University psychologist said.

A commercial airline crew witnessed the flight of an enormous North Korean missile believed capable of reaching Washington, D.C., Cathay Pacific officials confirmed on Monday.

Yemeni rebels killed their erstwhile ally Ali Abdullah Saleh, the country's former president and strongman, as their forces battled for control of the capital, Sanaa, officials said. The collapse of their alliance throws Yemen's nearly 3-year-old civil war into unpredictable new chaos.

European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier told European lawmakers that a breakthrough is likely on Monday in Brexit talks as Theresa May arrived in Brussels.

Arab nations and Palestinian officials have warned of dire consequences if the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, including potential unrest and an end to the peace process, amid last minute lobbying to prevent President Donald Trump from making the move.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet Tuesday with allies in Brussels, where NATO is coordinating efforts to loosen regulations that slow down the transit of military convoys across Europe.

As Republicans continue to sell the details of their tax bill, some are reaching for more colorful language to liven up complex policies that tend to put the average voter to sleep.

The USS Ronald Reagan returned to its homeport in Japan Monday after a fall patrol highlighted by a rare tri-carrier exercise and a plane crash that killed three sailors.

A state-of-the-art U.S. stealth fighter jet malfunctioned after landing and had to be towed to a hangar during joint war games that kicked off on Monday, officials said.

San Diego State was excitedly anticipating the possibility of going to the Foster Farms Bowl and playing a Power 5 opponent when the weekend began. So much for that.

Two dozen U.S. stealth jets joined hundreds of other aircraft for joint war games over South Korea on Monday, a week after the North test-fired its most powerful missile ever.