Новости за 20.07.2018

Lawmakers are hoping to wrap up congressional negotiations on the final version of its massive defense policy bill that could authorize a 2.6 percent pay raise for servicemembers and an increase in troops and weapons.

Israeli airstrikes pummeled Hamas targets in Gaza, killing four Palestinians, mostly Hamas operatives, after Palestinian snipers killed an Israeli soldier near the border Friday, officials said.

The White House said Friday it "is not considering supporting" a Vladimir-Putin-backed call for a referendum in eastern Ukraine in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's meeting with the Russian president.

French investigators on Friday detained for questioning one of President Emmanuel Macron's top security aides who was caught on camera beating a protester in May, sparking a major political crisis for the French leader.

Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins, visiting Washington, D.C. this week to take part in pre-game ceremonies for baseball's All-Star Game, sat down with Stars and Stripes to talk about his new book, "A Tiger Among Us: A Story of Valor in Vietnam's A Shau Valley."

Olson has not hidden what happened. She describes it in detail in the final chapters of her 2006 book, “Iraq and Back: Inside the War to Win the Peace,” which is for sale at events for her Texas Agriculture Commissioner campaign events.

A civilian worker killed in a fire and explosion at an Army facility in Pennsylvania died from burns, officials announced Friday. The Lehigh County coroner's office identified the victim as Eric Byers, 29, a resident of the Philadelphia suburbs.

Manny Machado arrived in Baltimore in August 2012, just a month after his 20th birthday, all baby-faced and long-limbed, the most highly touted Orioles position-player prospect in a generation, a shortstop drafted two spots after Bryce Harper two summers before, a preternaturally gifted athlete on both sides of the ball.

Relievers are the canaries of major league rosters, the first players tossed into the mine, the first to get a sense of a manager's strategic know-how and feel its effects. Washington Nationals relievers and those who watched their use closely in the season's first half are chirping about rookie Manager Dave Martinez.

A man armed with a 5-inch kitchen knife attacked passengers Friday on a crowded city bus in northern Germany before being overpowered and arrested, authorities said. Ten people were injured, three of them seriously.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein unveiled a 156-page report Thursday evening on cybersecurity operations and a strategy moving forward on foreign actors influencing U.S. elections, including notifying the American public of attacks.

Less than a third of Americans approve of how President Donald Trump handled his summit Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but almost 70 percent of Republicans think he did a good job, a new poll found.

The inescapable conclusion coming out of Washington's All-Star extravaganza is that baseball, if not in crisis, is at least at a crossroads in regards to what it wants to be, as both a game played by gifted human beings and as an entertainment product and cultural institution.

The sporting world's questions about the impact of long video gaming sessions coincide with growing attention toward the potential dangers of whether lengthy stretches of gaming constitutes problematic behavior, or something more than a habit.

President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen recorded a conversation in which he and Trump discussed payments to a former Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with Trump,The New York Times reported Friday.

The man accused of killing five in a shooting at the Capital Gazette's newsroom has been indicted on 23 counts charging him with murder, attempted murder, assault and weapons offenses.

The Netherlands' U.N. ambassador said the Security Council made clear to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday that it wants to see "concrete actions and deeds" from North Korea to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula.

Widespread protests over miserable living conditions in southern Iraq continued Friday, but demonstrators largely avoided confronting a large deployment of police and military.

The GAO found in its review that the VA’s system for tracking misconduct claims is fragmented, and it can only track certain types of misconduct departmentwide. There are also data-reliability issues in collecting the information, the report stated.

The Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t have a system to track disciplinary actions, says the GAO. Case files are missing documentation. VA whistleblowers are more likely to be punished than their peers.

The St. Louis-area division of defense contractor Leonardo DRS Inc. has been awarded a $193 million contract to install missile and rocket defense systems on the U.S. Army’s Abrams battle tanks.

Armed U.S. drone flights over Niger — which started after four U.S. soldiers were killed in an ambush in October — have put a scare into local militants, the country’s top defense official said.

With the buzz of a landscaper's chainsaw, the "Hero Tree" came down this week in Houston, Texas. The live oak was dedicated in 1961 to memorialize Texas Air National Guard Capt. Gary Herod, who sacrificed his life to save others in a jet crash.

The White House said Friday it "is not considering supporting" a Vladimir-Putin-backed call for a referendum in eastern Ukraine in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's meeting with the Russian president.

Police arrested a 14-year-old boy and charged him with vandalism on Friday after a memorial to a slain Navy SEAL and Medal of Honor recipient was found smashed to pieces at a Long Island lake.