Новости за 12.09.2018

An effort to improve an online system that verifies veteran-owned small businesses and allows them to compete for government contracts has backfired, leading to delays and frustration for hundreds of companies, according to members of a committee who oversee the program.

Relatives of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, are demanding $30 million from Memphis in connection with a statue of the Confederate general that was removed from a city park last year.

Pope Francis summoned the presidents of the world's bishops' conferences Wednesday to a summit on preventing clergy sex abuse and protecting children, responding to the greatest crisis of his papacy with the realization that Vatican inaction on the growing global scandal now threatens his legacy.

During the course of his filmmaking career, Alfonso Cuaron has explored everything from outer space ("Gravity") to a dystopian future ("Children of Men") to a world populated by wizards and fantastical creatures ("Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban").

Faced with a highly critical state audit, low morale and calls for it to fire top officials, the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs' governing board kept its executive director and is moving forward with the relocation of the Talihina Veterans Center.

U.S. 5th Fleet is participating in three exercises in the Middle East focused on critical chokepoints in the region, amid recent tensions at sea with Iran.

South Korea's Military Manpower Administration said that a group of 12 college students studying classical music in Seoul tried to gain a huge amount of weight before the medical exams that would determine their fitness for military service.

Leaders at military installations in Virginia and North and South Carolina are adapting and adjusting their plans and preparations for Florence as the massive hurricane barrels toward the East Coast, shifting direction along the way.

During a fight scene in the newly released action-thriller "Peppermint," Jennifer Garner and a cadre of bad guys fall face first into Skid Row's notoriously filthy streets.

Why the remarkable uptick in activity? In the Atlantic, in particular, it's all thanks to a sudden alignment of the two things that fuel hurricanes: energy, and wind.

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

The Trump administration on Wednesday formally endorsed the efforts of key Persian Gulf allies to protect civilians in Yemen, signaling its support in a new report to Congress for Arab partners despite widespread criticism of their role in that country's civil war.

Aerial photos taken by navy aircraft earlier Wednesday showed seawater shooting as high as 10 meters (33 feet) above the surface just off the island's southern coast, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

A Tacoma towing company sold the impounded car of a deployed Navy sailor, despite state and federal laws preventing such a transaction, the state of Washington has charged in a lawsuit.

Airman 1st Class Christian Clark was found dead in his dorm room on Sept. 6 at the Grand Forks Air Force Base.

It’s a Darwinian worldview. Never retreat; eat or be eaten.

When Florence finishes with us, human need necessarily will displace the longing for our lost things.

Senior submarine officers can receive as much as $180,000 in signing bonuses under a new Navy plan to retain sailors with desired leadership skills. The bonuses are part of the Navy’s larger effort to keep senior leaders at the helm.

In his first “ask me anything” appearance on the popular website Reddit, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright and his team fielded live questions on a range of issues, from fitness and uniforms to warrant officers and facial hair.

In his first “ask me anything” appearance on the popular website Reddit, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright and his team fielded live questions on a range of issues, from fitness and uniforms to warrant officers and facial hair.

Hurricane Florence evacuees and disaster relief workers can find free temporary lodging through Airbnb. Airbnb hosts in the Carolinas, Georgia and Virginia are offering free stays through the online company’s Open Homes Program.

Move over pot stickers, here comes another Asian dumpling. South Korea’s largest food company is making a multimillion-dollar bet on “mandu,” developing its own machines to automate the normally labor-intensive production of the Korean dumpling and building factories around the world.