Новости за 12.11.2018

Congress will return Tuesday facing a familiar threat: President Donald Trump's demand for billions of dollars for his U.S.-Mexico border wall with the risk of a government shutdown if he doesn't get it.

Army Maj. Gen. Donna Martin is the first woman to lead Fort Leonard Wood since it opened in 1941. She's also one of few African-Americans to do so.

Daily letters home chronicled Squire Utsler's service, from the first day of boot camp on Aug. 18, 1943, until he hitchhiked from California to arrive home in Enid on Christmas Eve 1945.

At that time, Ronald Reagan was the first sitting U.S. president to have visited Beaufort County since President Franklin Roosevelt, who traveled by train from Yemassee to Port Royal in April 1943.

Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday. He was 95.

Stan Lee, the creative dynamo who revolutionized the comic book and helped make billions for Hollywood by introducing human frailties in superheroes such as Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and the Incredible Hulk, died Monday. He was 95.

As most Americans go about the long Veterans Day weekend with football, barbecues and shopping, Matt Koetting late last week discussed with about 250 mostly younger Marines at Kaneohe Bay some of the significant challenges facing the warrior ranks.

Top Democrats from the House and Senate are demanding to know whether the Justice Department's ethics chief advised acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker to recuse himself from special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of the Trump campaign's Russia ties, citing "serious ethical considerations" that they say should keep him from overseeing the investigation.

John B. "Jack" Cummings was 22, a handsome college man headed off to World War II from Juneau, Wisconsin, where his family, no doubt, prayed he would return. But on Dec. 31, 1944, near the French village of Neuhaeusel on the Rhine River, he vanished from his foxhole.

U.S. analysts said Monday they have located more than half of an estimated 20 secret North Korean missile development sites, highlighting the challenge the Trump administration faces in ensuring that North Korea complies with any eventual agreement to end its nuclear and missile programs.

It was supposed to be the war to end all wars, but for Andres S. Ribera, once a laborer at a hotel in Santa Fe, it seemed the first two days he spent in battle would never end.

A dozen nations including the U.S. and China demanded the European Union provide a mechanism for "appropriate compensation" to ensure its split with the U.K. doesn't leave them worse off after Brexit, according to a World Trade Organization document.

More than three decades ago, Michael Griffin was at the center of the military's "Star Wars" initiative, working to realize President Ronald Reagan's dream of shielding the United States from Soviet missiles. Now the 69-year-old scientist is back at the Pentagon.

Iran continued abiding by nuclear limits in its landmark accord with world powers even after President Donald Trump abandoned the agreement, according to international monitors.

A monument to American troops who fought at Resaca de la Palma on May 9, 1846, is about to be removed and re-installed at the Palo Alto Historical National Battlefield Park about five miles north on Paredes Line Road.

Kevin Cuttill's son died on Veterans Day, 2009. Four years later, he founded Crusaders for Veterans on the Mississippi Coast to help veterans struggling with financial problems.

The Navy’s top Europe and Africa commander spoke Sunday at Flanders Field American Cemetery in Belgium in honor of the armistice forged 100 years ago and the thousands of U.S. servicemembers who died in “the war to end all wars.”

Palestinian militants bombarded Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Monday while Israeli warplanes struck targets throughout the Gaza Strip in what appeared to be the most intense exchange of fire since the 2014 war.

Some National Guard students attending North Dakota colleges on ROTC scholarships are scrambling to find ways to stay in school after the state Guard announced it could no longer fund its share of the program.

Brendan Hoolihan met Navy veteran Telemachus "Tel" Orfanos when they both survived the Route 91 Harvest festival attack. After the California mass shooting at Borderline Bar and Grill, Hoolihan learned of Orfanos' heroic attempts to save others.

The explosion took place near where hundreds had gathered to denounce the latest Taliban attacks in Ghazni districts of Jaghuri and Malistan.

The explosion took place about 500 yards from where hundreds of minority Shiites had gathered to denounce the latest Taliban attacks in Ghazni districts of Jaghuri and Malistan.

The graphic posted on an account run by members of a California American Legion post featured the words “THANK A VET SHOW THEM YOUR BOOBS!” over an American flag. It drew multiple complaints from veterans.

South Korea is airlifting thousands of boxes of tangerines to North Korea in return for the North's large shipments of pine mushrooms in September, Seoul officials said Monday.

Military officials from the UNC, Seoul and Pyongyang held talks in the truce village of Panmunjom two days after the Koreas completed withdrawing troops and firearms from 22 front-line guard posts as part of a far-reaching military pact.