Новости за 24.07.2018

The fire has been burning for about four days and covers about 6,500 acres of the sprawling 214,000-acre post, officials said — adding it poses no immediate risk of leaving the installation boundary or threatening life or property.

Live-fire gunnery exercises at Fort Hood were suspended Tuesday until further notice due to ongoing wildfires on the post’s expansive training grounds.

Elbert "Big Man" Howard, who was one of the six founding members of the Black Panther Party, has died at age 80.

Test results show contamination has been pouring out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base into the Clinton River and Lake St. Clair, which is the source of drinking water for nearby municipalities reporting detection of harmful chemicals.

More than 30,000 people have been admitted to the hospital for heatstroke, and at least 77 deaths have been registered in the past two weeks.

Canadian investigators said Tuesday there was no link to terrorism in the mass shooting that killed two people and wounded 13 as they continued to probe the life of the 29-year-old gunman for clues to what prompted the rampage that targeted diners at restaurants and cafes in a popular Toronto neighborhood.

Is it even summer without a Mission: Impossible movie? Hardly. Thankfully, another installment of the Tom Cruise-starring action franchise, “Mission: Impossible - Fallout,” drops this weekend, as sturdy and reliable as ever. Under the swift and efficient supervision of writer/director Christopher McQuarrie, this is the kind of action filmmaking that proves to be an effective antidote for superhero fatigue, with a sense of realism baked into every shot. There’s no messy digital CGI here as our heroes... Читать дальше...

An organizer of last summer's deadly white nationalist rally in Virginia has withdrawn his request for a court order allowing him to stage an event marking its anniversary.

The Islamic State’s so-called caliphate has withered to the area around one small town in eastern Syria, which is surrounded by U.S.-backed forces set to begin operations to liberate it, a top anti-ISIS coalition general said Tuesday.

In addition to ISIS fighters around the small town of Hajin, about 20 miles from the Iraq border, which has been held by the terrorist group since 2013, militants have gathered in small cells in Iraq and Syria.

Boston Dynamics's awkward, four-legged, dog-like robot, SpotMini, is evolving from a viral YouTube sensation to a purchasable pet of sorts, according to the company's founder, Marc Raibert.

A synthetic form of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana, was found to be safe and effective in treating agitation, lack of appetite and other behavioral symptoms in dementia patients.

The Navy has stressed that the Truman’s return was not a homecoming, nor was it breaking from its schedule, points that Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Bill Moran again made Monday.

A federal appeals court has rejected an appeal from a female former Naval Academy midshipman serving a life sentence in Texas for the 1995 slaying of the high school girlfriend of her former Air Force Academy boyfriend also convicted of murder in the teenage love triangle.

The Ohio National Guard turns 230 years old on Wednesday. Their historian, Sgt. 1st Class Josh Mann, takes pride in chronicling the long history of the state's National Guard units.

The first phase of that training consisted of learning Air Force history and customs, team building exercises and the military mainstay — marching.

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is set to get more construction funding than ever before.

A Green Beret who fired on a civilian truck in Afghanistan showed “horribly poor judgment” during a deployment in which officers let soldiers drink alcohol and have sex in violation of military rules, the team’s enlisted leader stated in an Army investigation report.

Lawyers for an Ecuadorean immigrant who was detained while delivering pizza to a Brooklyn Army installation will ask a federal judge to stop his deportation.

President Donald Trump spoke to about 4,000 veterans gathered in Kansas City, Mo., for the VFW’s annual national convention, telling the crowd about his commitment to rebuild the military and improve care for veterans.

It was never Maia Mitchell’s intention to move from Australia to Los Angeles. For something she never planned on doing, the move has paid off for the 24-year-old, as she not only is starring in “Good Trouble” (a spinoff of the Freeform series “The Fosters”), but she’s one of the main characters in the new feature film “Hot Summer Nights.”

Israel shot down a Syrian fighter jet it said had breached its airspace on Tuesday, as Syrian forces reached the Golan Heights frontier for the first time in seven years.

A steady stream of locals have been lodging complaints about the tangible effects of a U.S.-backed cease-fire by the Afghan government. They fear another truce could help the Taliban take full control of the district.

A steady stream of locals have been lodging complaints about the tangible effects of a U.S.-backed cease-fire by the Afghan government. They fear another truce could help the Taliban take full control of the district.