Новости за 07.12.2018

Journalists would be well-served to re-engage over the next two years on the mission they briefly pursued after the 2016 election, discovering and covering all of America — every day, every week, without bias or judgment.

Support for more taxes on the rich is growing, and not just in France, which is one of the few developed economies to still have a wealth tax.

The leader of Indiana's veterans' affairs agency has resigned following reports that he awarded department employees who are veterans grant money intended for struggling veterans.

The public memorial service for Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan Elchin, who was killed Nov. 27 alongside two Green Berets when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, included more than 100 fellow special tactics airmen from units in Florida and New Mexico, filling the 500-seat auditorium to capacity, the local daily reported.

Yes Cafe, a new addition to Yokota Air Base, is keeping residents of the installation’s east side caffeinated — and they’re doing it all out of a small truck.

Nationwide, about 89,000 police will fan out in the streets, an increase from 65,000 last weekend, when more than 130 people were injured and over 400 arrested as the protests degenerated into the worst street violence to hit the French capital in decades.

The cheerful melody bellowed from the accordion across the dimly lit room, filling me with jittery anticipation. Holding a hand of each stranger on either side of me, I bounced in a circle to the left and then to the right, doing my best to remember the steps that had just been explained.

An atmosphere of vanishing time permeated the Friday morning ceremony at Pearl Harbor commemorating the 77th anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Oahu by Japan.

The leader of Indiana's veterans' affairs agency has resigned following reports that he awarded department employees who are veterans grant money intended for struggling veterans.

Ukraine's defense ministry warned Russia on Friday that it will soon send navy ships through the Kerch Strait where Russia fired on and seized three Ukrainian vessels two weeks ago.

A 28-year-old Marine Corps pilot from south Florida was killed after his F/A-18 Hornet fighter collided with a refueling plane during training Thursday off the coast of Japan, an accident from which five Marines remain missing, service officials said.

President Trump is expected to choose the head of the Army to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tapping a voluble and unconventional combat veteran to become America’s top military officer, individuals familiar with White House plans said on Friday.

The origins of Tyler Merritt's bestselling product this Christmas season date to the fall, when Nike launched an ad campaign featuring National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

George H.W. Bush’s lifetime of service was capped by one last selfless act, a final gift to the country he served so well. He knew exactly what he was doing by opting not to exclude Trump from his funeral.

A hard border would be in no one’s interest. It would stifle the commerce that has so recently and flourished, and it could increase the possibility of a resumption of violence.

It was Dec. 5, 1941, and Lt. Ted S. Faulkner's mission would be delicate and dangerous: fly his B-24 Liberator thousands of miles from Pearl Harbor, sneak over Japanese-held islands in the South Pacific, and take photographs — without starting a war or getting shot down.

The soldiers assigned to the Army’s newest four-star command charged with modernizing the service’s warfighting equipment received their unit patches Friday, a significant step for Army Futures Command as it continues to grow since its founding this summer, a service official said.

Due to cutbacks, U.S. Army Europe tax centers will limit assistance mostly to servicemembers that fall below a certain rank and income level during the 2019 tax season, Army officials said.

Thousands of people have been imprisoned by the Houthi militia during the four years of Yemen's grinding civil war. Many of them have suffered extreme torture — being smashed in their faces with batons, hung from chains by their wrists or genitals for weeks at a time, and scorched with acid.

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom on Wednesday released a trove of Facebook documents that provide an intriguing glimpse inside the company — and obliterate any remaining notions of its chief executive officer as an innocent babe in the woods.

There isn’t a cure to the global warming of invective, just mitigation and adaptation.

Vice Adm. Jim Malloy is the new head of 5th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, a decision that came following confirmation by Congress and the death of former commander Vice Adm. Scott Stearney.

Citing consumers' desire for real human connections amid an increasingly negative social media landscape, the trend forecasters and color experts at Pantone have selected Living Coral, a "life-affirming" and "nurturing" shade, as 2019's color of the year.

Recording Academy voters were most impressed this year with the sound of Wakanda, the fictional African country from the film "Black Panther." The music Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar assembled to accompany the Marvel Studios blockbuster received a field-leading eight nominations for its album and singles, including the hat trick of recognition in the top three categories of record, album and song of the year.