Новости за 06.10.2018

More than 60% of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' land-use agreements on its West Los Angeles campus are illegal or improper, a federal audit found, including leases for a Los Angeles city dog park and ballfields, Red Cross offices, a Shakespeare festival, a parrot sanctuary and the private Brentwood School.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Congolese surgeon brings rare global attention to a region surging for decades with rebel conflict that now threatens efforts to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak.

City records show 5,400 people perished in the 1918 pandemic. Also hard hit were young servicemembers at military camps at Fort McHenry, Camp Meade and Edgewood Arsenal.

The head of the nonprofit Rhode Island Association of School Committees has suggested a novel approach to the lingering school bus strike in Providence: bring in the National Guard.

Claude Alexander Rowe Jr. of Chula Vista, who served in the armed forces of two allied nations during World War II, was laid to rest Friday at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego with full military honors, including a gun salute and a "missing man" formation flyby of WWII-era fighters. Rowe died on Sept. 20 at age 97.

It might be one of the most famous photographs ever taken of a Syracuse resident. Taken on Sept. 3, 1945, it shows World War II soldier Bernard "Bud" Stapleton raising the first American flag over Tokyo, just one day after the formal Japanese surrender. Bombed out buildings can be seen in the background.

Studies show that invisible radioactive particles of plutonium, thorium and uranium are showing up in household dust, automotive air cleaners and along hiking trails outside the factories and laboratories that for half a century contributed to the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons.

When Jesse Brody realized that the beat-up cabinet he scavenged from a dead man's Florida home contained a former jeweler's small fortune – stacks of cash in envelopes, jewelry and lumps of gold tucked inside a bread bag hidden in an old dentistry cabinet – he just wanted to do the right thing. Not so fast.

Roving militias killing civilians. Prisoners stripped naked and rolled in hot ashes. "Mafia"-style murders and violence that forced more than a million people from their homes. That's the legacy the new president of Ethiopia's gas-rich Somali region in the east, will have to overcome after 11 years of the previous administration.

Toyota says that it might have to temporarily halt output at its plant in Derby, England, in the event of a so-called hard Brexit. Electronics maker Panasonic has moved its European headquarters from near London to Amsterdam, while the Japanese retailer of Muji products is mulling a similar relocation to Germany.

The increased U.S. defense budget, record orders for commercial aircraft and the launch of new, cutting-edge programs have aerospace and defense companies scrambling to hire engineers and other skilled workers.

Tech providers vying for a $10 billion Defense Department cloud-computing contract may come under added pressure to prove their systems are secure after a report that China sneaked spy chips onto servers used by U.S. companies including Amazon.com, a top contender for the Pentagon award.

Cameroon President Paul Biya's bid to extend his 36-year rule in Sunday's election is being overshadowed by growing frustration over his handling of a bloody separatist insurgency in the country's two Anglophone regions.

President Donald Trump has heaped particular pressure on Saudi Arabia to do more to ease crude prices, by linking the American military presence in the Persian Gulf to the kingdom's oil-production policy. Yet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman praised his relationship with Trump, saying "I love working with him."

Escalating their personal battle, President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal clashed sharply with Blumenthal continuing criticisms of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee and Trump counterattacking by blasting Blumenthal's false statements about serving in Vietnam.

Sophomore quarterback Travon Jacobs was 14-for-25 for 280 yards and two touchdowns and ran for 51 yards on five carries.

Miles Brice rushed for two touchdowns and passed for another and recorded six tackles and an interception, while David Key ran for a touchdown and caught a pass for another.

Police say two bombs have exploded in former strongholds of the Islamic State group in central Iraq killing one person and wounding at least 16.

Quarterback Raphael Lykins, receiver Anthony Nelson and tailback Douglas Tankey each scored two touchdowns as the Eagles routed the Warriors 50-0.

The 135,000-acre installation is conducting prescribed burns over the next several weeks to rid training areas of dry grass that has been tinder for wildfires over the past year.

Along with the ship’s highest-ranking enlisted member, the USS Billings' top officers are in Montana to meet with Billing’s commissioning committee, tasked with raising as much as $350,000 to celebrate the ship’s seaworthiness at a location and date still to be determined.

An Air Force Academy cadet already awaiting court-martial for sexual assault will face additional sexual misconduct charges at an evidence hearing Tuesday.

Following a year in which the Army fell short of its recruiting goals for the first time since 2005, general says the Army must increase incentives for recruiters and decrease the bureaucracy soldiers must wade through.

Sidney Walton, a 99-year-old Army veteran, has embarked on a 50-state excursion he has dubbed the No Regrets Tour, and he is making himself available to anyone wishing to meet him.

According to the indictment, between Aug. 1, 2013, and Nov. 24, 2015, the defendants conspired with each other to share bidding information that enabled Company G to win foreign intelligence contracts with the NSA.