Новости за 08.03.2018

The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools in recent years. Florida's Broward County school district is believed to be the first to stop accepting NRA money after a gunman killed 17 people at one of its schools. The teen charged in the shooting had been on a school rifle team that received NRA funding.

Base tours offer an easy way to see Europe with other members of the military community. Here is a sampling of current trips scheduled.

NFL owners expect to discuss the sport's national anthem policy at the annual league meeting later this month, and some of them regard all options open for consideration entering those discussions.

Rep. Phil Roe, chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said he was assured by VA Secretary David Shulkin that VA medical data won’t face the same transfer challenges as military patient data stored on ALTHA.

Months after a sailor aboard the USS Laboon spotted someone in the water, no changes in security have been made at Naval Station Norfolk. Navy officials believe they would have found a diver in the water if there was one.

Mark Cuban’s day didn’t start out badly. The hardest thing he had to do during a news conference at American Airlines Center to announce a new advertising logo on Mavericks jerseys was answer questions — or not answer them — from me and a couple others regarding the sexual harassment story that broke in Sports Illustrated two weeks ago. Then things got tougher.

Not very long ago, it was hip to be young. It was all the rage in NASCAR, where new bloods like Darrell “Bubba” Wallace and Ryan Blaney were going to kick all the old guys to the curb or, better yet, dust them on Turn 4. The veterans are having none of that.

The late Jim Harrison wrote a poem some time ago called, “Weak winter sun,” in which he said, “It is stupidly human to rush the season. The boy cleans up his trout equipment. Only two more months to the fishing opener and the dry flies and streamers are impatiently waiting.”

When Adam Silver started talking about changing the circumstances that lead to the one-and-done phenomenon in college basketball, I was skeptical. Now I’m beginning to think the NBA commissioner means business.

Kevin Love knew he was going to become one of the faces of mental health issues in America when he wrote an essay detailing his November panic attack and decision to seek therapy.

Whoever attacked a former Russian spy with a rare nerve agent is guilty of a "brazen and reckless act," and Britain will respond without hesitation when it becomes clear who is responsible, the country's security minister said Thursday.

One day in early December, as the years-long pursuit of a baseball enigma approached its conclusion, a trio of Dodgers converged on the offices of the Creative Artists Agency in Los Angeles.

Six weeks after officer Gary Michael's death, Christopher Ryan Morton left his VA job and went back full time with the Clinton Police Department. On Tuesday night — seven months to the day after his colleague was gunned down — Morton, 30, lay dying in a home where he and two other officers had responded to a 911 disturbance call.

There are no signs of a slow-down or that Geno Auriemma is ready to walk away from UConn any time soon, but certainly we’ve reached the seventh-inning stretch of a run that includes 11 national championships and a list of accomplishments that are outlandishly ahead of most anything else seen recently in this or any sport.

He was initially viewed as little more than the NBA’s richest mascot, a lovable, lumbering, fist-pumping fan who led cheers from the baseline and signed the checks from afar. But this season, his inherited team dissolving, his comfortable world changing, something has stirred in Steve Ballmer.

In many ways, Chris Herren was a pioneer of sorts, someone who took his own little dance with the devil long before most people even knew who the devil was.

Gregg Popovich has no interest in running for president of the United States, but he was willing to entertain a hypothetical question about it: If he did run, would he choose Steve Kerr to be his Vice President?

The dinners – dubbed No Dough Dinners – are hosted by the Sandhills Area United Service Organizations once a quarter for families stretching it until pay day. Beyond the food, the dinners aim to connect families for camaraderie, especially families who have soldiers deployed or away for training.

A deadly collision between the U.S. Navy destroyer USS John S. McCain and a commercial oil tanker in the Singapore Strait in August was caused by a sudden turn to port by the McCain that sent it into the path of the tanker, an investigation by the Singapore government has found.

The decision to grant danger pay comes five months after an Oct. 4 ambush in Niger that killed four U.S. soldiers. For troops, it means up to $225 more each month in pay.

Growing up on a dairy farm in South Dakota had two big effects on Col. Leslie Maher, the new commander of the 375th Air Mobility Wing at Scott Air Force Base.

If the special counsel is right, then Conway or other presidential proxies will be significantly chilled in what they can say in public. That is a problem for free speech, and for the First Amendment.

The wife of a Navy officer and her family have been awarded $24.7 million after she experienced infection and kidney failure following childbirth at Tripler Army Medical Center — a condition that early on could have been treated with antibiotics, her lawyer said.

On Friday, Shkreli's unique journey from a hedge fund rising star to Wall Street bad boy will take its most serious turn yet. After being convicted last summer of defrauding investors, Martin Shkreli faces more than a decade in prison — and his history of outrageous behavior is not likely to help his hopes for leniency.

The mysterious winner of a $560 million lottery ticket in New Hampshire has finally claimed her prize, through her legal team, but she is still fighting to keep her identity a secret.