Новости за 22.08.2018

The congressman and his wife were charged by a federal grand jury Tuesday with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition, theater tickets — even fast food purchases — and attempting to conceal the spending in federal records.

The congressman and his wife were charged by a federal grand jury Tuesday with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition, theater tickets — even fast food purchases — and attempting to conceal the spending in federal records.

The outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday said that despite the Taliban’s continued ability to launch large-scale attacks on major cities, a recent cease-fire and new moves toward reconciliation indicated unprecedented progress in the nearly 17-year fight.

Hawaii-based Navy vessels and Air Force aircraft are being moved out of state as a Category 4 hurricane barrels toward the island chain. All U.S. Navy ships and submarines based in Hawaii and not currently undergoing maintenance have begun to sortie to avoid damage by Hurricane Lane.

Arlington National Cemetery reopened Wednesday after a bomb threat forced officials to close the facility to the public for about four hours. Despite the cemetery’s closure, funerals still took place as scheduled.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. John Chapman is the first servicemember to be awarded the nation’s highest military honor since the Vietnam War. The Medal of Honor is an upgrade of the Air Force Cross that Chapman was awarded posthumously in the months after the brutal fight now known as the Battle of Roberts’ Ridge during the early months of the war in Afghanistan.

The commander of U.S. forces in South Korea said Wednesday that he's cautiously optimistic nuclear diplomacy will work out with North Korea. But he also said Seoul and Washington must continue to apply pressure so that "there's not a reason or even an ability" for the North to back out.

The Naval Chaplaincy School and Center headquarters will move from Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, to Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, beginning in October, with an expected completion by March 2019.

Times and dates for theaters in Belgium, England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands.

Our country honors the memory of deceased veterans with an embossed certificate signed by the president, but receipt is not automatic. A request must be made by family or friends.

Almost everyone agrees on this: Early last year, a shipment of hazardous waste was taken from Mountain Home Air Force Base to a municipal landfill on Simco Road. But discussion of who’s at fault for the prohibited shipment has devolved into disagreements, pointed fingers and now, a lawsuit.

White House spokesman Raj Shah says the Democrats look "increasingly desperate." He says the confirmation hearings will begin on Sept. 4 as scheduled and Kavanaugh "will be there."

Texas is seeking at least $12 billion for a nearly 60-mile "spine" of concrete seawalls, earthen barriers, floating gates and steel levees on the Gulf Coast to protect against powerful storms and high tides. "You're looking at a lot of people, a lot of homes, but really a lot of industry," said Steve Sherrill, an Army Corps of Engineers resident engineer in Port Arthur.

Footage of the incident, published this week on an Italian blog's YouTube page, shows two men playfully wading into the fountain in their underwear. The video has apparently caught the attention of the Italian government and Rome's local police.

Fifty years after the My Lai massacre, Capt. Aubrey Daniel — who won the sole conviction against U.S. soldiers involved — was recognized for his legacy to the Judge Advocate General corps.

If he proceeds to trial in Washington, it will be a sure sign that, for whatever reason, he will not voluntarily tell Mueller what he knows.

Complicity in the Holocaust was never his only choice. Many Ukrainians chose to suffer in German POW camps rather than inflict suffering on others.

Tour boats to the USS Arizona Memorial are suspended; the park will close at noon today; and ships and planes at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam are expected to be moved ahead of Hurricane Lane, officials said.

A bomb threat at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday forced officials to close the facility to the public for the remainder of the day, though funerals were scheduled to resume.

A member of the notorious MS-13 gang will spend more than eight years in prison after pleading guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges.

A group of around 300 migrants stormed fences separating Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Wednesday, and 116 of them made it onto European soil, authorities said.

The goal of the new uniforms is for the U.S. armed forces to look more unified.