Новости за 19.02.2018

The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, AMVETS, Disabled American Veterans and Vietnam Veterans of America – groups that regularly advise VA leadership and lawmakers on veterans issues – backed VA Secretary David Shulkin on Monday and decried any attempt to undermine or replace him.

A recent Charlotte Observer investigation found that staff shortages in the state’s prisons have climbed to dangerous levels over the past two years. Experts and officers told the newspaper that better staffing might have saved the lives of five prison employees who were fatally attacked last year.

It's no coincidence 2nd Lt. Sarah Casey shares a name with her duty station. It was named in honor of her great-uncle, Maj. Hugh B. Casey, a World War II veteran killed in the Korean War. “I’m one of those people who believes everything happens for a reason,” she said.

A North Carolina judge trying protesters accused of toppling a Confederate statue has dismissed the criminal case against one of them, ruling that prosecutors had failed to identify him as a perpetrator and hadn't shown there was a conspiracy.

One important detail left off Joshua Mayo's headstone was his service as a Revolutionary War soldier as a private in Capt. Eleazer Hamlin's company, in the Massachusetts Regiment serving in Bedford and Falmouth.

An attorney for a Maryland man who pleaded guilty to impersonating an FBI agent says the man's life began to unravel when he became addicted to painkillers and was kicked out of the Navy.

Sitting in an armchair in the home he once shared with his family, Raymond Harris still becomes emotional as he thinks about his daughter’s death and the community that has continued to support him.

Ahead of late March’s Middle East deployment of seven 155th Brigade National Guard units, including Amory’s 1st Squadron, 98th Calvary Regiment, a nonprofit formed after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks is available to help children of wounded warriors and National Guard members and Reservists being deployed.

Some Hawaii residents rattled by the false missile alert are considering doing more than leaving it up to chance that they’ll be able to find shelter should a ballistic missile head their way.

By looking at the human eye, Google's algorithms were able to predict whether someone had high blood pressure or was at risk of a heart attack or stroke, Google researchers said Monday, opening a new opportunity for artificial intelligence in the vast and lucrative global health industry.

White House chief of staff John Kelly, a U.S. Secret Service agent and the U.S. military aide in charge of the so-called nuclear football were involved in a skirmish with Chinese security officials during President Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing in November, a report said Sunday.

President Donald Trump offered support Monday for an effort to strengthen the federal gun background check system as he hunkered down at his private Florida golf course just 40 miles from last week's deadly school shooting.

Fast-food chain KFC has been forced to close most of its 900 outlets in Britain and Ireland because of a shortage of chicken.

The Russian subversion of the 2016 election did not, to be sure, kill nearly 3,000 people. But its longer-term impact may be even more corrosive by undermining faith in our democracy.

It is altogether fitting, if somehow strange, that a child born into a media culture would think first to turn on his camera, the better to capture the faces of fear.

Islamic State militants ambushed a group of Iraq's Shiite-led paramilitary fighters, killing at least 27 more than two months after Baghdad declared victory over the extremist group, officials said Monday.

Kuwait's ruling emir has reportedly invited Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to his country to resolve tensions after a Filipina maid was found dead in a freezer.

Mathematics shows us that we can sometimes achieve fairness, perhaps unexpectedly, in purely adversarial settings. In today’s hyperpartisan climate, this is very good news.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission judge said I never should have lost my job and that the state could provide same-sex marriages while still protecting the religious beliefs of its employees.

Abusers don’t see race, religion or political affiliation. They only see vulnerability, innocence and opportunity.

Populism’s continuing appeal should remind long-standing, mainstream political parties worldwide that the factors behind the populist wave are, if not universal, found in many different countries now.

American intellectual property and defense technologies are highly guarded, but vulnerable because U.S. advanced military hardware is highly prized and desired by determined adversaries.

Olympians past and present joined several entertainers to celebrate U.S. troops and their families during a festival on this military base Monday as the 2018 Winter Games being held nearby entered their second week.

Olympians past and present joined several entertainers to celebrate U.S. troops and their families during a festival on this military base Monday as the 2018 Winter Games being held nearby entered their second week.

Fort Carson's newest weapon is also its most revolutionary, allowing ground-pounding units to strike targets hundreds of miles behind enemy lines and giving commanders an unprecedented view of enemy movements.