Новости за 25.02.2018

David Shulkin, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, hasn’t had an easy week. Or at least that’s how he summed up the past 10 days.

At the winter meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington, state leaders expressed willingness to consider new limits on gun ownership and stepped-up efforts to address mental-health factors.

The document pushes back on a number of claims Republicans made in a memo released earlier this month concerning the FBI’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Sometimes the way a person walks is enough to inspire another person to follow in the same footsteps. That was the case for World War II veteran Edward B. "Andy" Enterline.

Just 37 percent of delegates to the statewide convention backed Feinstein in her bid for a fifth full term, while than 54 percent backed state Sen. Kevin de León.

The Florida sheriff whose department responded to this month's high school massacre defended his leadership Sunday while insisting that only one of his deputies was on the scene as the gunman killed 14 students and three staff members.

American athletes finished in either fourth, fifth or sixth place 35 times, potential medals if the U.S. Olympian had been a split-second faster or perhaps had impressed a judge just a bit more.

Despite a drop in intensity, shelling and bombardment in the Syrian capital and its embattled eastern suburbs killed at least six people Sunday following the U.N. Security Council's unanimous approval of a resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, opposition activists and residents of Damascus said.

North Korea expressed a willingness to meet with the United States even as it lashed out against new shipping sanctions and warned a blockade would be an “act of war.”

The U.S. finished fourth in the medal count at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with 23, trailing Norway (39), Germany (31) and Canada (29). Among those 23 American medals were nine golds that provided plenty of thrills and a couple of historic firsts.

Dozens of American and international teenagers showed off their robots and technological know-how Saturday at the Department of Defense Education Activity-Europe Invitational, a regional qualifier for the FIRST Tech Challenge world championships.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is studying how service dogs might be able to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. Though the results are years away, a group helping with that research isn’t waiting to pair its pups with servicemembers.

The daughter of Arizona Sen. John McCain was not pleased after Trump once again went out of his way to trash her cancer-stricken father on Friday — despite promising earlier this month to lay off the insults.

The GRU hackers are thought to work for the agency's Main Center for Special Technology, or GTsST, according to intelligence agencies. That unit has been highly active in information warfare against the West and was behind the NotPetya cyberattack that crippled computers in Ukraine last year.

The Naval Academy and Naval Criminal Investigative Service are investigating between 10 and 24 midshipmen at the academy for allegedly selling illegal drugs over the dark web, reports say.

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday confirmed Alfred A. Montoya Jr., a U.S. Air Force veteran, as the new director to Manchester VA Medical Center, a post he's held, on an acting basis, since last July.

Irwin Soliday did not know if he would make it out of World War II alive. He fought the Japanese Imperial Army in New Guinea, where besides the dangers of combat, he contracted malaria and other jungle diseases, he said.

Student pilots and instructors from Vance Air Force Base filled the seats at Oklahoma Blood Institute Enid donor center Friday to help OBI respond to a critical blood supply shortage.

Shawn Anderson, Nourse Fox and Tom Lacey hatched a plan during the year they spent together at the Naval Academy Prep School. Those three recruits decided with true determination to do whatever it took to turn around the Navy men's basketball program during their careers.

The commander and deputy commander of the Navy’s Japan-based amphibious squadron have been relieved of duty, the Navy announced Sunday, Japan time.

The commander and deputy commander of the Navy’s Japan-based amphibious squadron have been relieved of duty, the Navy announced Sunday, Japan time.

The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has said the rebuttal was needed to correct the “many distortions and inaccuracies” in a Republican memo released Feb. 2.

Called Columbus Salutes the Centennial, the free event featured living history performances, rock climbing , military displays and other equipment to recognize the post that was established as Camp Benning in 1918 to train soldiers during World War I. An estimated 5,000 people were expected during the day for the celebration.

When Iran's worst unrest in years broke out in December, the country's president, Hassan Rouhani, saw a rare chance to push for reform. The moderate Rouhani leveraged protesters' anger to drive through his agenda. The new crises may now hinder reform.

A former U.S. Forest Service ranger was ordered this week to pay a disabled war veteran and another man almost $600,000 after a federal judge ruled that the ranger violated their civil rights by using excessive force during their 2014 arrests.