Новости за 21.11.2018

A new working paper finds that in strictly literal terms, members of Congress today are much less likely to physically cross the aisle of the chamber to fraternize with members of the opposing party than they were even 10 or 15 years ago.

Nine years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Canada's Viola Desmond, a black businesswoman, defied an order to leave a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theater, spurring a broader fight for racial equality that helped end segregation in the province.

He claimed to have served in the Navy. He claimed to have experienced combat during the Vietnam War. He claimed to have suffered injuries and trauma and received two Purple Hearts for his service. But none of his claims were true.

Almost 16,000 pounds of food was distributed by the USO of North Carolina and the Feed the Children charity Tuesday to 400 Fort Bragg soldiers and families affected by Hurricane Florence.

Though native to North America, the turkey is perhaps the ultimate immigrant around the world. Its name in many languages usually means some form of outsider from far away.

This obsession about how Ocasio-Cortez spends her money serves to discredit both her issues generally and the financial pressures that millennials face specifically.

The United States and South Korea will scale back their annual Foal Eagle exercise this spring to facilitate ongoing negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear program, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday.

Charles Houston Harris, 22, the U.S. Navy electrician's mate 3rd class assigned to the USS Oklahoma, grew up outside Jena in the small community of Good Pine with his eight brothers and sisters in the 1920s and 1930s, census records show.

Cadet 1st Class James Brahm, of Huntsville, Ala., and Cadet 1st Class Madison Tung, of Santa Monica, Calif., are the Air Force Academy's 40th and 41st recipients of the award since it was established in 1902 by philanthropist Cecil Rhodes.

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will not step down as chairman, he said in an interview that aired on CNN Tuesday night, and he will not dismiss Sheryl Sandberg, his top lieutenant and chief operating officer.

The White House has granted Defense Secretary Jim Mattis broader authority to move U.S. troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border region to provide force protection for the Customs and Border Protection agents they are supporting, the Pentagon chief said Wednesday.

An American missionary who kayaked to a remote Indian island populated by a tribe known for shooting at outsiders with bows and arrows has been killed, police said Wednesday. Officials said they were working with anthropologists to recover the body.

Money and military hardware have continued to flow between Riyadh and Washington in the weeks since the Oct. 2 killing of Washington Post contributor and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi, despite calls in Congress and elsewhere for a halt in arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

The Navy's move away from evaluations based entirely on supervisor assessment is one of several changes in store for the new system, which will also expand the current 5-point system to a 9-point scale that ranks sailor performance traits across multiple categories.

At a hearing this month on GI Bill claim delays, lawmakers criticized VA leaders and legacy computer systems that seem to defy modernization despite Congress year after year allocating hundreds of millions of dollars for VA information technology upgrades.

South Korea's decision to dissolve a foundation funded by Japan to compensate South Korean women who were forced to work in Japan's World War II military brothels has thrown fuel on the diplomatic fire between the countries, who share a bitter wartime history.

The death toll from a bombing of religious scholars celebrating the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad in the Afghan capital has continued to rise in the 24 hours since the attack, while the Taliban has denied responsibility.

It's been more than a year since Qaim, Iraq, was freed from ISIS. But the battle on the doorstep means life in the town is still on hold, with residents waiting for their town to be rebuilt.

Most of the servicemembers at the garrison, which has been occupied by the Army since the 1950-53 Korean War, have moved. But it’s not easy to close a military base that’s spread over about 630 acres, including sub-installations, in one of the trendiest areas of the South Korean capital.

The $38 million elementary school, set to open for the 2021 school year, is expected to reduce water use and lower energy costs.

An outdated aircraft part caused a U.S. fighter jet’s engine to overheat and catch fire shortly after takeoff earlier this year near Misawa Air Base, Japan, Pacific Air Forces announced Monday.

Two missiles were fired on Ghazni city Wednesday during a visit by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, officials said. NATO’s Resolute Support mission tweeted that the missile strikes were not confirmed and that if there were strikes, “it wasn’t anywhere near Gen Miller.”

Two missiles were fired on Ghazni city Wednesday during a visit by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, officials said. NATO’s Resolute Support mission tweeted that the missile strikes were not confirmed and that if there were strikes, “it wasn’t anywhere near Gen Miller.”

A member of the Okinawa-based III Marine Expeditionary Force must answer to multiple charges in the April sexual assault of a female Marine who was reportedly too intoxicated to consent.

President Donald Trump is expected a sign an executive order giving armed troops the authority to intervene if U.S. personnel are endangered by migrants trying to cross the border, the officials said. The order doesn’t rule out use of deadly force.