Новости за 07.05.2018

Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North, the gung-ho Marine at the center of the Iran-Contra affair three decades ago, was named president Monday of the National Rifle Association, giving it star power as it faces a powerful backlash over the massacres in Florida and Las Vegas.

Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North, the gung-ho Marine at the center of the Iran-Contra affair three decades ago, was named president Monday of the National Rifle Association, giving it star power as it faces a powerful backlash over the massacres in Florida and Las Vegas.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum asks us to be respectful of fellow visitors. But shouldn't that be obvious? Not today. We've become so accustomed to interacting through our phones that we've forgotten about everyone else in the room.

It was the bone-chilling northern European cold that Harry Miller faced as a teenager in the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge that the Army and Air Force veteran most prominently recalls about his 22-year military career that spanned three major wars.

“I guarantee you, I spent a million dollars on jewelry,” Andre Rison said on the ESPN 30 For 30 documentary “Broke.” “Chains, crosses, you name it. How much is that one? It doesn’t matter, just get it.”

High-level AAU basketball events are being held all over the country this spring and summer. Depending on whom you listen to, those showcases are either invaluable recruiting spaces, breeding grounds for corruption because of archaic NCAA rules or the root of all evil. The answer doesn’t fit neatly in one box.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency on Monday announced that the remains of 32-year-old Army Maj. Donald G. Carr of San Antonio are being returned to his family. Burial will be at San Antonio National Cemetery.

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., introduced legislation Monday to create an independent National Commission on Military Aviation Safety in response to a series of deadly aircraft crashes in the last year.

Navy veteran Amos Gregory, a muralist working in San Francisco, was inspired in 2013 to paint an upside-down flag on the border wall dividing San Diego and Tijuana — a distress signal that Gregory described as the perfect symbol to represent the plight of deported veterans. Over the years, the mural has become a backdrop for their fight to return to the U.S.

Eight years after the Navy announced a policy change allowing women to serve on submarines, there are 93 women aboard Pacific Fleet vessels, including nine officers on two Virginia-class submarines at Pearl Harbor, the undersea service said.

Heather Penney, then a rookie Air Force fighter pilot, was asked to bring down a hijacked jetliner before it could slam into a building and kill thousands. With no missiles aboard her F-16 and no time to load, she would have to ram it, on what was essentially a suicide mission.

A man being hailed as a hero for wrestling an assault-style rifle away from a gunman at a Tennessee Waffle House has raised nearly a quarter of a million dollars for the victims.

The air bags on 2006 Ford Rangers and Mazda B-series trucks should be replaced immediately, automakers said. But Monday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said too many people are still driving the trucks.

As Congress returns this week for a work period that stretches to Memorial Day, the legislative agenda on the floors faces long odds of enactment even as broader issues surrounding the president’s judicial and executive nominees, as well as the annual Pentagon policy bill, compete for attention.

As an American expat happily living in Slovenia for many years, I love exploring my adopted country and looking, more deeply than perhaps even locals do, into what makes it such a wonderful place to visit and reside. One line I hear frequently, and which guidebooks like to boast about, is that the country is so compact, with such a diversity of terrain, that you can ski in the morning and swim in the ocean in the afternoon. Would it be any fun? Only one way to find out.

Raqqa is exceptionally isolated from the rest of the country, even by the standards of a war that has partitioned Syria among the factions fighting over it.

U.S. military officials have sought to ward off congressional efforts to address child-on-child sexual assaults on bases, even as they disclose that the problem is larger than previously acknowledged.

The only Republic P-47 Thunderbolt flying outside the United States followed a much smaller Supermarine Spitfire onto the RAF Lakenheath flight line Monday as part of a yearly money-raising effort for the Air Force Assistance Fund.

Neither party has won the battle over their two very different economic philosophies just yet. Both would be wise to remember that with every voter group, actions speak louder than words.

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has destroyed 26 homes since it began spewing lava hundreds of feet into the air last week, and residents who evacuated don't know how long they might be displaced.

Americans need to pay more attention to the vast stretches of ocean and ice at the top of the world. The stakes are enormous.

A Virginia Tech group is looking for history buffs, grateful citizens and others to enlist on V-E Day to help catalog thousands of firsthand accounts from soldiers in World War II about their daily lives.

The airline industry is one that passengers love to hate. And yet, overall customer satisfaction hit an all-time high in 2017 and declined only slightly in 2018, according to the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index Travel Report, which was released in late April.

Millions of anti-Semitic messages on Twitter have spread negative stereotypes and conspiracy theories about Jews across the social media platform, according to a report Monday by the Anti-Defamation League.

Given Bolton’s reputation and strong views, any student of history should expect fireworks as he and Pompeo circle each other in an attempt to mark their respective territories.