Новости за 13.02.2018

The Dakota Leathernecks Detachment No. 1419, a local Marine Corps League organization, has refurbished the former VFW building, built in 1915.

Despite questions over a ballooning U.S. deficit and other funding dramas, the 2019 military budget proposal out Monday is poised to win support on Capitol Hill, experts say.

American servicewomen receive “below average” reproductive health coverage compared to their counterparts serving in the armed forces of many other countries, according to a study released Tuesday by a pro-abortion rights group.

The clash Tuesday night between Russia and the United States was lopsided on the ice, convivial in the stands and never really happened in the eyes of the International Olympic Committee.

One of four emergency slides failed to deploy during a fire on a Southwest Airlines jetliner Monday night, but the malfunction did not hinder an evacuation while the plane was on the ground at a California airport, officials said Tuesday.

The recommendations marked a dramatic ending to a months-long investigation into allegations that Benjamin Netanyahu accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish gifts from a Hollywood mogul and offered to give preferential treatment to a newspaper publisher in exchange for favorable coverage. Netanyahu has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

The budget Trump put out this week is an even more obvious political ploy than most.

A confidante accused of collaborating with South Korea's former president for personal gain was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for bribery and other crimes in a political scandal that triggered the country's first presidential impeachment and the conviction of an heir to the Samsung empire.

Three members of a Fort Bragg family who were reported missing a week ago in New York after visiting relatives were found in Tennessee on Monday morning, and Fort Bragg officials confirmed Spc. Travis Reynolds has been AWOL for almost a month.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday the agency provided the White House with information twice last year about the top Trump aide who resigned as staff secretary last week after domestic violence allegations from two ex-wives became public.

A Los Angeles-area teacher and city councilman who bashed U.S. military servicemembers in classroom remarks is expected to attend a council meeting where leaders could seek his resignation.

Ramstein-Miesenbach threw its 67th annual Fasching parade, capping what’s known as carnival season in Germany with a grand display of elaborate floats, marching bands and costumed revelers.

A proposal to loosen regulations and enable the Department of Veterans Affairs to sell and lease property was included Monday in President Donald Trump’s long-awaited, $1.5 trillion plan to improve American infrastructure.

Blocking the sale is justified only if it would preserve more assets for the victims, not fewer.

For a variety of reasons, it’s truck drivers that represent the most worrisome constraint on U.S. economic growth at the moment.

Remember Republicans’ enduring commitment over most of our lifetimes to eliminate the federal budget deficit and trim the national debt? Well, forget it.

The only reason Kim Jong Un is reaching out to South Korea is to drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul.

Theater Security Packages like these took shape after Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Since then, contingents of airmen have spent similar quick deployments elsewhere in Eastern Europe. This is the first security package to bring F-16s to Estonia.

Fourattic’s small team clearly has a love for all things ’80s.From the pixel art that evokes video games of yore, to the low-budget Saturday morning cartoon-esque cutscenes, to the dozens of references to everything from Michael Jackson to “Ghostbusters,” “Crossing Souls” is packed with love letters to the decade that Ronald Reagan built.

Human error may be to blame for the crash of a Russian plane that killed 71 people, Russian investigators said, noting that the plane's pilots failed to turn on the heating unit for its measuring equipment, resulting in flawed speed data.

A mountain peak in Alaska has been named Gold Star Peak to honor families who lost servicemembers in the Iraq War. The process to name the peak took more than a year.

American luger Sgt. Emily Sweeney crashed out of the Pyeongchang Olympics on Tuesday, losing control of her sled midway through the final run of the competition.

U.S. forces killed scores of Russian contract soldiers in Syria last week in what may be the deadliest clash between citizens of the former foes since the Cold War, according to a U.S. official and three Russians familiar with the matter.

The Trump administration's appeal for unity fell on a critical deaf ear Tuesday as the latest expression of U.S. support for Kurdish rebels in Syria enraged America's NATO ally, Turkey, and overshadowed Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's plea for nations fighting the Islamic State to overcome rivalries and concentrate on eradicating the extremist group from the Middle East.

Venezuela on Monday accused neighboring Colombia of planning a bombing campaign or a “military invasion” amid heightened tensions in the region and a mass exodus fueled by Venezuela’s collapsing economy.