Новости за 02.06.2018

Hannah Y. Kim, a former congressional staffer, has been crisscrossing the country, visiting 21 states and more than 30 Korean War memorials to date, to raise funds and awareness for a proposed "Wall of Remembrance" she hopes to see added to the national Korean War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Seventy-four years ago Army 1st Lt. Rudolph Marko, of Cleveland, roared at treetop level above the forest near Saint-Sever-Calvados, France, helping pave the way for the Allied liberation of Normandy during World War II.

A Madigan Army Medical Center nurse who came to the aid of victims after happening upon last year's Amtrak derailment in DuPont has received the Secretary of the Army Award for Valor.

This is the first time the original treaty between the two nations has been taken from the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and loaned to the Navajo Nation.

Before President Donald Trump authorized U.S. airstrikes on three Syrian military sites in April, the Justice Department advised him that the strikes were legal because he had "reasonably" determined they were "in the national interest" and would not constitute a war, according to a Justice document released Friday.

From former White House officials to longtime radio hosts, conservative media figureheads turned on a Republican lawmaker who won them over for his scathing interrogation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the House's Benghazi investigation in 2015.

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un say they have the same goal — denuclearization of the Korean peninsula — at their upcoming summit in Singapore. But they disagree fundamentally about what that would look like.

Since Iran and Russia reached an agreement in the summer of 2015 to coordinate a military campaign to save the regime of Syria's dictator, that war has held together an unholy alliance of those three states. It worked. Bashar Assad has withstood the uprising. Now, as that war comes to a close, the Iranian-Russian alliance that saved the Assad regime appears to be fraying.

A new Russian influence operation has surfaced that mirrors some of the activity of an internet company that the FBI says was deeply involved in efforts to sway the 2016 U.S. elections, a cybersecurity business says.

A medical emergency sets in motion a high-altitude calculation with human lives in the balance. While pilots are the ultimate decisionmakers, airlines have earth-bound medical consultants that help bypass on-board volunteers — reducing expensive emergency landings, but with the potential of providing expert decisions in real time.

It is little more than a footnote in the back-and-forth over the planned North Korea summit — but the rumor of a McDonald's in Pyongyang is juicier than a three-patty Big Mac.

Looking haggard and defeated after two days on the run from a massive manhunt, a suspect in the slaying of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy and Marine veteran, was arrested Friday by a state trooper.

A Superior Court jury this week awarded $31.3 million to an Iraq War veteran and his wife after a 2014 swimming accident in a pond on the University of Rhode Island's Alton Jones campus left him paralyzed from the chest down and with limited use of his hands.

More land has been added to the Revolutionary War site where Fredericksburg Gen. Hugh Mercer was killed and his neighbor and commander-in-chief, Gen. George Washington, turned back the British in a famous counterattack.

Inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High children lay dying. Outside, the Coral Springs deputy fire chief repeatedly asked a Broward sheriff's commander for permission to send his medics inside the school but was rebuffed, according to a report released Thursday.

For the families of Nicholas Dworet, Joaquin Oliver, Meadow Pollack and Carmen Schentrup, graduation day will be the latest marker on a relentless parade of pain, 109 days since their loved ones were killed in a mass shooting that claimed 17 lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross arrived in Beijing on Saturday for talks on China's promise to buy more American goods after Washington revived tensions by renewing its threat of tariff hikes on Chinese high-tech exports.

Ralph Stepney’s home on a quiet street in north Baltimore has a welcoming front porch and large rooms, with plenty of space for his comfortable recliner and vast collection of action movies. The house is owned by Joann West, a licensed caregiver who shares it with Stepney and his fellow Vietnam War veteran Frank Hundt. "There is no place that I’d rather be. ... I love the quiet of living here, the help we get. I thank the Lord every year that I am here," Stepney, 73, said.

Syria's foreign minister said Saturday Iranian military advisers are embedded with Syrian troops but Tehran has no combat forces or fixed bases in the country.

Indian forces fired tear gas Saturday at a funeral march for a man who was killed after paramilitary forces ran over him with a truck during an anti-government protest in the disputed Kashmir territory.

Islamic State militants killed 12 members of the same family, including women and children, in an attack on their northern village home Saturday, an Iraqi official said.

Alexander Gauland said Germans must take responsibility for 12 years of rule by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party, but argued that it's only a small part of Germany's history. "We have a glorious history and it, dear friends, lasted longer than those blasted 12 years," he told a gathering of the party's youth movement.

The paratrooper found dead in his barracks Friday has been identified as Staff Sgt. Krasean Clayborn, 36.

It's Ramadan, but in Istanbul smokers huddle outside offices, couples sip beer and sex workers call out to young men from balconies. The contrast with some Arab countries that penalize people for publicly breaking the dawn-to-dusk abstention from food and drink couldn't be more striking in and around the city's central Taksim Square. And supporters of that Turkish way of life want to keep it that way.

The eight puppies born at Airside F in Tampa International Airport last week were adorable instantly, internet famous quickly and controversial not long after.