Новости за 13.08.2018

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is creating a formal board to review the Aug. 2 active shooter scare that occurred at the base’s hospital.

The Navy has identified a sailor found dead at Naval Station Norfolk Friday.

A new U.N. report says the Islamic State extremist group has an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 members equally distributed between Syria and Iraq and its global network poses a rising threat — as does al-Qaida's global network.

Defense contractor Raytheon is suing an Orlando man, contending he stole trade secrets that he took to his new job at competitor Lockheed Martin.

Tulare County officials plan to file charges against Golden State Killer suspect Joseph James DeAngelo in a 1975 slaying in Visalia, according to a source.

The United Arab Emirates on Monday said it was actively fighting al-Qaida's branch in Yemen after an Associated Press report outlined how Emirati forces cut secret deals with the militants to get them to abandon territory.

Explore Britain’s southern coast carefully enough and you can still find relics of the dark years when the country awaited Nazi invasion: abandoned radar stations; tank-traps lost in farmers’ fields; half-hidden concrete bunkers overlooking wide, shingle beaches. Then there’s Tyneham.

Peter O’Rourke, who became embroiled in multiple controversies during his short time as acting secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, will stay on as a senior adviser to new VA Secretary Robert Wilkie, the VA announced Monday.

Bottom of the ninth, with two outs and two strikes, rookie David Bote sent one deep over the center field wall. And he celebrated in grand style, flinging his helmet to the heavens after rounding third and getting mobbed by teammates.

A commander at Minot Air Force Base says the 22-year-old man killed in a motorcycle crash over the weekend was a senior airman.

Framed by a mountainous horizon, the farm fields are littered with hay bales, both round and rectangular, and I’m reminded of the Virginia Piedmont, where I grew up. Such a gentle, pastoral landscape seems imprinted in my spiritual DNA, and is the real reason I’ve journeyed here, to Northern Italy’s Piemonte region: to discover whether the two places have more than similar names in common.

As a filmmaker, Jon Turteltaub has always prided himself on his versatility, and over the years he has tackled everything from romantic comedies ("While You Were Sleeping") to family films ("The Kid") to action blockbusters ("National Treasure") to a movie about the 1988 Jamaican Olympic bobsled team ("Cool Runnings"). Still, when he was approached in 2016 with the idea of directing "The Meg," a film about a rampaging prehistoric giant shark, Turteltaub wasn’t sure he wanted to bite.

Authorities quickly concluded that the fire was an act of arson. Flames spread so rapidly and intensely — fed by a substantial accelerant — that fire crews were forced to initially retreat, unable to save a handful of cabins near where it ignited.

An Alabama company has a five-year, $522 million extension to an Army contract for inflatable satellite antenna systems.

The three planes were sent to South Korea to cover all contingencies, Stenstad said. The two C-17s that didn’t fly into North Korea were used to transport the remains to Hawaii.

As long as the original statues remain and serve as a rallying point, alternatives will not serve their intended purpose of making people think about the flaws of the original.

While military dependents go to underfunded schools, no one is making a connection with students, teachers and local districts to make policies.

The RAGBRAI, which stands for the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, is seven consecutive days in July and participants typically camp at designated towns along the route. It's the world's largest week-long bicycle ride.

For nearly 70 years, Dominic Ragucci believed his brother Emil's body had been swept out to sea during a World War II battle on a Pacific atoll. But on Monday, Dominic, 86, and his brother Victor, 91, stood on a tarmac in Philadelphia to greet Emil's remains as he finally made it home.

Fifteen airports throughout the country will employ the new technology. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was the first facility to receive the advanced screening innovation, in 2017, followed by Boston Logan and New York's JFK.

Aretha Franklin is gravely ill, according to several reports. The "Queen of Soul" last year announced she planned to retire from touring, and in March she had to cancel shows on doctor's orders.

Born Jan. 7, 1921, in Oxnard,John Murphy joined the Navy in 1939 shortly after graduating from high school and was assigned to the Vestal, a retrofitted cargo ship with a service record pre-dating World War I.

Two downtown museums will launch collaborative exhibits on Aug. 18, the same day the Army hosts its annual National Airborne Day celebration at the Airborne & Special Operations Museum.

UES Inc has been awarded a $49,057,000 contract for research and development in the “flash and laser airborne protection system” (FLAPS) program, the Department of Defense said in an announcement Friday.

As public pressure mounts on Israeli leaders to crush rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip, they're opting to try the diplomatic route while a greater threat looms: Iran's presence in postwar Syria.