Новости за 03.06.2018

Brexit is back this week as lawmakers return from their recess. Prime Minister Theresa May has some important decisions to make on what kind of future customs relationship she will formally pitch to the European Union ahead of a key summit at the end of the month.

The boxer from Chesapeake scored a unanimous five-round decision over Travis “The Animal” Thompson in Cheyenne, Wyo., in the first state-sanctioned bare-knuckle boxing card in the U.S.

Competition is heating up in the race to build the Navy's next warship, with foreign and U.S. manufacturers vying for a multibillion-dollar opportunity.

John Hollis' new book tells the story of Marine Sgt. Rodney M. Davis, the only person from Macon, Ga., to be awarded the nation’s highest medal for combat, who died in Vietnam on Sept. 6, 1967, when he threw himself onto a grenade to save fellow Marines.

New London NAACP members say they have received complaints of hate crimes at the academy.

For 73 years, the remains of Nashville World War II Navy pilot Harold DeMoss have been difficult to reach — but not hard to find.

The number of migrants attempting to cross illegally into the United States remained high in May, according to administration officials and Border Patrol agents, an early indication that "zero tolerance" measures separating parents from their children and President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops have not had an immediate deterrent effect.

North Korea will get relief from international sanctions only when it has shown irreversible moves toward denuclearization, Secretary of Defense James Mattis said ahead of a summit next week between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Tracing the same route over the English Channel and over the fields and dense hedgerows of coastal Normandy, hundreds of NATO paratroopers paid tribute to jumps by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions on the “Day of Days,” June 6th, 1944.

Evgeny Kuznetsov flapped his wings, Alex Ovechkin stood on the bench and roared with both arms up as Lars Eller happily rubbed his stomach, and Capital One Arena answered his cheer with an even louder one. The Stanley Cup finals had arrived in Washington, and the Capitals rose to the moment.

Nearly three-quarters of a century after soldiers had to trade in their helmets, cleats and pads for combat boots, entrenching devices and M1 Garand rifles, some two dozen 101st Airborne Division paratroopers played a game of American flag football in Sainte Mere-Eglise, France.

No matter what hell was enveloping James Capers Jr. and his Force Reconnaissance Marines, when it was time to escape a melee he was the last man on the ground — sometimes holding off enemy attackers alone before boarding a helicopter to safety.

Five people have died and nearly 200 people from nearly three dozen states have been sickened by E. coli in a growing outbreak that has so far stumped federal investigators.

Cold Warrior Leon Eisenhauer worked with coded messages in the 1950s, sometimes in NATO trucks not far from the East German border. When he was transferred into the engineering corps, an officer told him not to shoulder his rifle. "But in those trucks, I had a carbine with me," Eisenhauer said.

A pair of museums in Washington state are trading verbal artillery over custody rights of a World War II-era tank, with both claiming ownership of the 10-ton artifact.

Nearly a lifetime ago, they were soldiers and sailors and pilots and fighters, called up from their homes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts to serve in World War II and the Korean War. Those moments flicker in the memories of these men, of whom the youngest is 82 and the oldest is 97. They are certainly not forgotten.