Новости за 11.06.2018

The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it.

Earlier this year, a passenger was standing on the jet bridge, moments from boarding his South African Airways flight, when an obstacle appeared in the shape of a Customs and Border Protection officer. During the random search at Washington Dulles International Airport, the law enforcer asked the man how much money he was carrying. He responded $500, normally not an amount an officer would question, except in one instance -- when it’s a lie.

A New York man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to join the Islamic State, despite telling the judge he only wanted to provide humanitarian aid to Syrians.

The House plan would direct funding for pay raises of 2.6 percent, a boost to active-duty personnel by more than 15,000, an extension of certain bonuses and allowances, consideration of new improvements to the military healthcare system and purchases of new equipment and weapons.

“The Incredibles” writer/director Brad Bird has said that his characters’ powers are all born of stereotypes. Dad is strong, mom is stretched in a million directions, teenage girls put up shields, little boys are full of boundless energy and babies are unpredictable. It’s why he decided that for the sequel, “Incredibles 2 ,” a buoyant and quick-witted romp, he’d pick up right where we left off, in that parking lot after Dash’s track meet where a new threat emerges from underground. No matter that in reality, 14 years had actually passed. Читать дальше...

Participants Saturday in the post's annual Living History Day sat in replica tanks, pulled the trigger of unloaded 1940s machine guns and spoke into clunky communication devices.

The Connecticut National Guard's newest unit, which has spent the past two years training with new, specialized helicopters, will deploy soon to provide care and transport to the sick and wounded in support of military operations in southwest Asia.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers within the next two months expects to wrap up an environmental study of the Dakota Access oil pipeline after recently meeting with four American Indian tribes battling the pipeline in court.

Through a partnership with the Defense Department, LinkedIn will expand its program for veterans and servicemembers to include spouses. The program will also travel alongside families as they move from base to base.

2018 analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau shows the post 9/11 generation of veterans is the most diverse in history, helping to erase some of the stereotypes of the past.

One nationwide veterans organization hopes when President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday, he’ll push for the recovery of remains of American servicemembers killed during the Korean War.

For six months of the year, Mighty Oaks Warrior Programs, a Temecula, California nonprofit group, is helping veterans overcome post-combat stress by hosting monthly retreats at The Wilds, a 10,000-acre wildlife conservation center about 70 miles southeast of Columbus, Ohio.

A simulated standoff between fictional countries added a twist to the mass casualty rescue drill conducted Sunday during NATO’s Baltic Operations exercise, a two-week event including the United States and 15 other militaries.

When the time came to cast the 4-year-old titular character for "A Kid Like Jake," director Silas Howard proclaimed: "I'd love to have an actor who loves dresses and beautiful things. I'd love Jake to be a princess-loving boy (in real life)."

For decades, the U.S. military routinely dumped thousands of tons of obsolete, excess and captured munitions into U.S. coastal waters. Now, as President Donald Trump pushes to make more offshore waters available for oil and gas drilling, the administration wants to make it easier for companies to use seismic testing, potentially disturbing the long-forgotten hazardous refuse.

With the Trump administration signaling that coal and nuclear plants may receive federal subsidies, the attitude towards atomic energy may be shifting, with a number of signs pointing to a potential renaissance for small-scale nuclear reactors, and nuclear generation as a whole.

An Army 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) soldier killed nearly 10 years ago in Afghanistan has been remembered in a touching letter to his family from a high-profile Ohio State University football player.

To be unhappy enough to end it all, a person must first imagine a condition of greater happiness, then lose hope that the greater happiness can be achieved.

The North Korean regime has wagered that nuclear weapons would guarantee the loyalty of the only possible internal threat to the family, the armed forces, and would immunize the nation from external threats.

Milk got your stomach feeling sour? Dairy companies looking for ways to appeal to people who avoid milk because of indigestion are promoting what they describe as a natural, easier-drinking alternative. It’s called A2 milk, which is produced by a subset of cows that produce milk lacking a protein that backers say is associated with milk’s dyspeptic tendencies.

A suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives near a van full of government employees on Monday, killing at least 12 people ahead of an anticipated Taliban cease-fire.

In various quiet corners of Europe, small groups of Americans and Europeans are still devoting their time to one another’s mutual safety. If a crisis comes, we might need them.

U.S. talks with North Korea are “moving faster than expected” and President Donald Trump plans to leave ahead of schedule after his historic summit with Kim Jong Un, the White House said Monday.

On the eve of his high-stakes summit with North Korea, officials from both sides worked until the last minute to try to hammer out a nuclear agreement. The White House declared talks “have moved more quickly than expected.”

U.S. troops may not be on the table during Tuesday’s summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but they are looming in the background.