Новости за 12.01.2018

For five years, deported Army veteran Hector Barajas-Varela has been fighting one of America’s largest bureaucracies. Now, he’s seeing some payoff for the deported vets he advocates for in Tijuana, Mexico.

The new U.S. tax law is not even a month old, but financial experts say it’s not too soon for military servicemembers, veterans and retirees to dig into how the massive policy change will impact their pocketbooks for years to come.

Danish intelligence officials say al-Qaida "still has ambitions to attack the West," adding that support for the extremist network may increase as the Islamic State group weakens.

The military’s largest overhaul to its Tricare health system in two decades began Jan. 1, promising users expanded access to health care and simplified out-of-pocket rates for visiting doctors, but the changes have come with system failures and snags, officials and users have reported.

The first sailor to face a military trial in connection with the Navy's expansive "Fat Leonard" corruption scandal has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to six months confinement and a $10,000 fine.

Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, a retired Air Force officer, attacked Sharia law and sanctuary cities while vowing to support Trump's push to build a massive border wall.

Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, a retired Air Force officer, attacked Sharia law and sanctuary cities while vowing to support Trump's push to build a massive border wall.

Republican U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, a retired Air Force officer, attacked Sharia law and sanctuary cities while vowing to support Trump's push to build a massive border wall.

When Kim Jong Un gears up to launch a ballistic missile, analysts at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency comb through satellite imagery, looking for distinct signs on the the ground in North Korea indicating test preparations are underway. Now, the agency is in the midst of a concentrated push emphasizing the use of advanced technology to do analysis typically done by humans.

Over the past three years, the coalition and local forces have seized “hundreds of terabytes” of data from ISIS computers and storage devices in northern Syria, where U.S.-backed forces are operating, said Maj. Gen. James Jarrard, who commands the Special Operations Joint Task Force in Iraq and Syria.

An American servicemember and his Afghan interpreter were wounded Thursday in eastern Afghanistan after being lured into a meeting with an insurgent group posing as local militia, a U.S. military official said.

About 5,000 noncitizens join the U.S. military each year. Those servicemembers are allowed to apply for citizenship and can obtain it if they show good moral character, knowledge of the English language, understanding of U.S. civics and a willingness to take an oath of allegiance to the United States

While previous U.S. administrations called settlements an obstacle to the peace process, the Trump administration has been more restrained in publicly criticizing them, a clear break from the frequent censure under President Barack Obama of Israeli settlement activity.

The evidence suggests that President Trump's new dovishness toward renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement could be based on the successful appeal by free traders in his orbit to preserving the stock market rally.

A British surgeon who burned his initials into patients' livers during transplant operations was fined 10,000 pounds ($13,600) on Friday, and ordered to perform community service.

Heavy snow continued to hit wide areas along the Sea of Japan coast and other parts of the nation - leaving a JR Shinetsu Line train with about 430 passengers stranded for about 15 hours from Thursday night to Friday morning in Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture.

While the president can (and inevitably will) brag about some of his accomplishments, perhaps his greatest accomplishment may be his success in reviving and revitalizing the Democratic Party.

Now, the unwritten rules of the game are much clearer, and so are the stakes.

The American leadership that galvanized resistance to fascism and to communism in the past is missing.

Porsche's board was ordered by a German court to answer critical shareholder questions about what management at Volkswagen and the carmaker's majority investor knew about the diesel scandal and whether any evidence was destroyed.

The same Russian government-aligned hackers who penetrated the Democratic Party have spent the past few months laying the groundwork for an espionage campaign against the U.S. Senate, a cybersecurity firm said Friday.

Government scientists will provide an update to ongoing public health studies related to contaminated drinking water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. The meeting will be held in Atlanta, but also streamed live online.

The U.S. Air Force is going ahead with two long-planned flight tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles next month despite efforts to damp tensions over North Korea's nuclear ambitions and encourage fragile talks with South Korea.

In our day, there can be no compromise or middle ground between those who defend the Constitution and a president who understands so little of what has made our nation great.