Новости за 18.08.2018

U.S. Marine Lt. John Brooks Jr.'s role in the Battle of Lake Erie was short-lived. Standing near Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on the Brig Lawrence, Brooks died from his injuries after he was struck by a 24-pound cannonball on Sept. 10, 1813.

A private plane crashed off the coast of Mayport late Friday morning, but the pilot survived in good shape, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

As a pilot with the Blue Angels, Marine Corps Maj. Jeff Mullins is doing what many aspiring aviators only dream of accomplishing. But as he spoke at Terre Haute North Vigo High School on Friday, among those in the audience was an Air Force Junior ROTC cadet who has earned wings of her own.

George Anthos spent just three years in the Army, from 1955 to 1957, before returning home to Illinois and pursuing a profession as a hair dresser.

After five police officers were gunned down in Dallas on July 7, 2016, tens of thousands from around the world reached out to help the widows and children of the slain men. Money flooded into City Hall. Officials struggled to organize and distribute it, so they turned to a long-established charity.

When he applied for refugee status in the United States, Omar Abdulsattar Ameen told officials that he was fleeing persecution in his native Iraq. He was cleared by federal officials to live in the U.S. in 2014.

It's a process playing out around 40 Navy and Marine Corps installations: testing drinking water from privately owned wells for traces of harmful chemicals found in the foam that was used for years to extinguish aircraft fires.

Navy Cmdr. Blandino A. Villanueva has been fired as the executive officer of the San Diego-based guided missile destroyer Decatur due to "loss of confidence in ability to lead," the Navy said Friday.

Mayor Gregoire Junod told Agence France-Presse on Friday that the man and woman declined to shake hands with people of the opposite sex and that their behavior during the interview signaled to the three-person commission interviewing them that they had not adequately integrated into Switzerland.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped in Austria to attend the wedding of the country's foreign minister Saturday before heading to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Jason Nauert, owner of The Rocky Mountain Institute of Meat: Foundations of Meat Fabrication, has made a name for himself for his work with Army Green Berets, teaching them field harvesting, safe food storage and preparation of animals.

Whatever remains there are of Frank W. Torigian belong at home. That's the feeling his family expressed in the wake of North Korea recently sending the remains of 55 missing American soldiers from the Korean War back to the U.S.

The Sunday arrival of Wingfoot One, one of three blimps Goodyear operates, in upstate New York is part of a Monday program at Fort Drum.

The Air Force said Friday that it plans to build a $150 million runway extension at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson that officials say will reshape air traffic over Anchorage while easing jet noise problems in the Mountain View neighborhood.

The idea of a space force had been pushed unsuccessfully since 2016 by a small group of current and former government officials, some with deep financial ties to the aerospace industry, who see creation of the sixth military service as a surefire way to hike Pentagon spending on satellite and other space systems.

Army coach Jeff Monken is listening to a list of Air Force quarterback Arion Worthman's struggles in his junior season: His running statistics sank. So did his passing statistics. But as the AF QB rolls into his senior season, Monken knows Worthman is a player of note in the highly competitive service-academy rivalry.

Both soldiers were found dead on Thursday. One was found off-base in Thurston County and the other was found at his on-post quarters.

President Donald Trump on Saturday waded into the growing debate over the role of social media companies in policing public discourse, accusing them of "totally discriminating" against Republicans and conservative commentators.

German federal prosecutors say they're taking seriously a Yazidi woman's claim that she ran into her former Islamic State captor in Germany, but say they need more information to identify him.

Soulik’s new forecast track edges slightly away from Sasebo, closer to Pusan.

“If these men and women are having a bad day, they can come in here, rant, rave, curse, scream, holler – you name it – and we all understand,” Donna Porras said. “We might not have been in their shoes, but we understand.”

For the moment, Russia has held off retaliating for the new sanctions, limiting its response to angry rhetoric and waiting to see how the debate on a Senate bill for more sweeping restrictions plays out in the fall. With the personal rapport between the leaders warm and contacts expected to continue, the Kremlin is confident that Trump genuinely wants to rekindle ties if he can get a political window of opportunity in Washington.

In the days since some U.S. sanctions on Iran snapped back into place, the signs of misery have been everywhere in Tehran’s commercial districts. President Donald Trump has said his goal is to place “maximum economic pressure” on a country he accuses of fomenting instability and backing U.S. adversaries across the Middle East.

Since the United States withdrew all but a bare-bones staff from its embassy in Havana last September after mysterious incidents that affected the health of American diplomats, no Cubans have been admitted to the United States as refugees and the U.S. will likely fall far short of its annual commitment to admit Cuban immigrants.

Perhaps nowhere outside America's heartland is President Donald Trump given more credit than in Beijing. In government offices and think tanks, universities and state-run newsrooms, there is an urgent debate underway about what many here see as the hidden motive for Washington's escalating trade war against President Xi Jinping's government.