Новости за 31.07.2018

Two sets of 24-year-old identical twins had their first date together, became engaged at the same time and are now preparing to tie the knot in Michigan this weekend.

Close to two dozen retired military officers sent a letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis opposing the housing plan, saying it creates more risk by requiring U.S. forces to focus on asylum-seekers rather than national security threats.

Live-fire training has resumed at Fort Hood now that firefighters have contained the wildfires in the post’s training area, according to a statement released Tuesday by Fort Hood.

Fans should listen to Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle: “We have to start caring as much about the content of the posts as we do about when they were made and how they came to light.”

Camp Pendleton officials said crews were tackling a small brush fire in the Whiskey impact area of the military base Tuesday.

When North Korea handed over 55 boxes of bones that it said are remains of American war dead, it provided a single military dog tag but no other information that could help U.S. forensics experts determine their individual identities,a U.S. defense official said.

A two-day field forensic review determined that the remains are human and “are likely to be American remains,” according to an official with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

North Korea allowed the United States to send a cargo plane to collect the remains and fly them to Osan Air Base in South Korea on Friday, partially fulfilling a promise its leader, Kim Jong Un, made during his June 12 summit with President Donald Trump.

The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a car-and-knife attack on Western tourists cycling in Tajikistan that killed two Americans and two Europeans.

The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a car-and-knife attack on Western tourists cycling in Tajikistan that killed two Americans and two Europeans.

The witness known as Jane Doe 2 appeared to be avoiding eye contact with the defendant, Kellen Winslow II, the retired NFL player who sat across the courtroom. One of his attorneys asked the 58-year-old homeless woman about having testified Winslow choked her during sexual intercourse. "It wasn't intercourse," she responded. "It was rape. You need to use your words correctly, sir."

Senate Democratic leader Richard Durbin's demand will likely be ignored, and Homeland Security spokesman Tyler Houlton quickly issued a statement saying Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is "doing the job she was nominated, confirmed and sworn to do" and said "the obstructionists in Congress" should pass laws protecting U.S. borders.

Dominic Solazzo, president of the Midway Beach homeowners association in Berkeley Township, says he was horrified at the damage done Monday to a dune his members had painstakingly built up. "Everyone promised us they wouldn't touch the dunes," he said. "And the first ... thing they did was bulldoze our dune."

A French woman who reprimanded a man who harassed her in the street was hit hard in the face by him, and the incident has gone viral as the nation prepares to introduce fines for street harassment.

Previous recipients of the award include former President George W. Bush, Home Depot co-founder and philanthropist Bernie Marcus and Fox News anchor Jon Scott.

For nearly 200 years after Washington became the nation's capital — and after nine wars, plus the Indian wars — the Mall contained no major war memorials. But the 1982 dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial launched a war-memorial-building boom, and more memorials are proposed.

Thailand is seeking the extradition from the United Kingdom of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who fled her country last year ahead of a conviction on a charge of negligence in overseeing a money-losing rice subsidy program, the current prime minister said Tuesday.

Four extremists were killed in a violent clash in the Skikda region, some 260 miles east of the capital city of Algiers, Algeria's defense ministry said Tuesday. A military official in Algiers said seven soldiers were also killed in the skirmish.

Agents say the man, wearing an Army general's uniform, landed a helicopter last November at SAS Institute, and said he was on a mission authorized by the president. Authorities say the false story was meant to impress a woman who worked there.

A group of veterans who advise the largest gun control advocacy organization in the United States urged the State Department to halt its plans to allow downloadable designs for 3-D-printed guns to be published online.

Alejandra Juarez and her husband, Sgt. Cuauhtemoc “Temo” Juarez — who came to the U.S. from Mexico as a child and naturalized days before his Iraq deployment — always expected that one day, in recognition of his service, she too would be naturalized. But after two decades of building a life here, Juarez is set to be deported.

Don’t ever question the power of a well-deployed Kate McKinnon. It’s been proven time and again that her specific brand of kooky comedy can elevate anything, from the fun and loopy “Ghostbusters” remake to the questionable bachelorette-party-gone-wrong dark comedy “Rough Night.” Wind her up, set her loose and watch her wring laughs out of any flimsy, high-concept premise, like the action-comedy “The Spy Who Dumped Me,” co-written and directed by Susanna Fogel.

Vincenzo Nibali broke his 10th vertebra on the famous climb up to Alpe d'Huez on July 19 when a Tour de France fan caught their camera strap on his handlebars.

A calendar of nearby water parks and pools of interest to people living on U.S. facilities in the Pacific.

John Kelly told West Wing staff on Monday that he will stay in his post at Trump's request through the remainder of the president's first term.