Новости за 05.10.2018

A 74-year-old, who won a sharpshooting decoration in Vietnam, ambushed police officers coming to his South Carolina home to question his adult son about a child sexual assault, killing one and wounding six others, the sheriff investigating the case said Friday.

An Orange County Superior Court judge issued the death sentence for Andrew Urdiales, a 54-year-old Marine veteran convicted of killing five women in Riverside, Orange and San Diego counties between 1986 and 1995.

Google chief executive Sundar Pichai quietly paid the Pentagon a visit during his trip to Washington last week, seeking to smooth over tensions roughly four months after employee outrage prompted the tech giant to sever a defense contract to analyze drone video, according to two people familiar with the meeting.

Command Master Chief Sgt. Philip L. Easton was named Thursday as U.S. European Command’s next senior enlisted leader, the military announced Friday.

It’s hard to imagine Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei succumbing to Trump’s punch-them/hug-them strategy and doing a deal.

The Russian president can’t afford to look fallible, but he increasingly does. Simply trying to wait out one unfavorable news cycle after another won’t fix the problem.

President Donald Trump was apparently angered over Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson’s handling of his directive to create a Space Force as a sixth and separate branch of the military, according to a Foreign Policy report.

Doug Coffman of Eugene says he's no hero. The way he sees it, he was just helping an old friend when he became one of thousands of people who have made the decision to become a living organ donor.

Newly appointed Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya, who has long been a key defense policymaker of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, distanced himself Thursday from its earlier proposal that Japan should consider doubling its defense budget and procuring an aircraft carrier and F-35B stealth jets.

It was one of the biggest single massacres of the Syrian civil war. Within an hour, Maysoun Saab had lost her mother, father, brother and 34 other members of her extended family. Overall, more than 200 people were killed by Islamic State militants and 30 hostages abducted in July 25 attacks across Sweida province.

Fisher DeBerry and his wife, LuAnn, devote considerable time and effort to the Fisher DeBerry Foundation, which is dedicated to the support and education of single mothers and their children. That is a cause that is very personal to DeBerry, who grew up without a father in the country town of Cheraw, S.C.

As the sun slipped behind the mountains and a gentle breeze blew onshore, hundreds of people gathered on an Indonesian beach Friday to chant a Muslim prayer — and remember those they lost — one week after a massive earthquake and tsunami ravaged the area, killing more than 1,500 people.

In Southern California's most Republican congressional district a GOP incumbent running against a first-time Democratic candidate should be a slam dunk for re-election. Not this year.

About 40 Fort Drum veterans — members of the “2-14” battalion — were back on post to see a showing of a new documentary, “Black Hawk Down: The Untold Story,” Thursday, exactly 25 years since the fierce Battle of Mogadishu.

“This is the Air Force’s 71st birthday and they’ve never court-martialed a general officer,” said retired Col. Don Christensen, a former top prosecutor for the Air Force. “There have been plenty worthy, but the more senior you get the more people you know making these decisions.”

A Navy veteran in Utah was charged Friday with threatening to use a biological toxin as a weapon by sending letters to President Donald Trump and other leaders containing ground castor beans, the substance from which the poison ricin is derived.

A humbled Leon Panetta accepted the 2018 Thayer Award from the West Point Association of Graduates Thursday night, not for himself but "on behalf of the winner of the award 16 years ago" — the American soldier.

H.R. 6869, the Violence Against Women Veterans Act, would help connect veterans to local resources, generate more data on what fuels such violence in the ranks and trigger new reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs to address domestic violence, according to the bill’s sponsor.

The Army could lower attrition rates, save money and improve junior soldier performance if it was better at selecting its senior enlisted leaders, according to a new study.

Some of the women protesting are members of or paid staffers for activist groups. Ana Maria Archila, one of the two women who confronted Sen. Jeff Flake in an elevator last week, is co-executive director of the nonprofit Center for Popular Democracy Action. She said Friday that if Trump "wants to say I have a job where I advocate for justice, he is right."

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians at a protest near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel. Thousands of Palestinians flocked to the frontier, continuing near-weekly protests that the territory's Hamas rulers have has staged since March.

Finding out I was pregnant with my second baby would have been as exciting as with the first, but for one thing overshadowing the joy: How would I tell my daughter that she wasn’t going to be the only child in our life from now on?

"Ma'am. Ma'am. Get off the street," Sen. Bernie Sanders yelled to the woman as she crossed a street on Capitol Hill not realizing she was about to get hit by a passing car.

A font called Sans Forgetica was designed to boost information retention for readers, based on a theory called "desirable difficulty" which suggests that people remember things better when their brains have to overcome minor obstacles while processing information.

The tuna auction tours that had attracted foreign visitors as the main feature of Tsukiji market will change significantly in Toyosu. Tour participants will not be allowed to enter the site; an observation deck with a glass wall was built instead.