Новости за 09.02.2019

President Donald Trump's rally at the El Paso County Coliseum on Monday follows his State of the Union comments in which he tried to use El Paso as an example of why the United States needs to construct a wall along the border. Congressman Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, says he sees Trump's campaign rally as an opportunity for the city to take control of the narrative.

Three people have been arrested and there could be more after a kidnapping, armed robbery and beating that may be part of a criminal scheme targeting undocumented immigrants, said police in Davie, Florida.

Since it became clear that the detention center would remain open, top officials at Guantanamo Bay have sought hundreds of millions of dollars for construction projects they say are needed to improve troops’ quality of life and their safety.

Hershel "Woody" Williams, the sole surviving U.S. Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, will be the keynote speaker at the Kentucky Department of the American Gold Star Mothers annual meeting and luncheon at noon on April 6 at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum.

An Oak Harbor resident who says her well was contaminated with chemicals from firefighting foam used at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court.

For the past 11 years, the Aleda E. Lutz Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Saginaw has worked with veterans across mid-Michigan to help them with mental health issues, addiction and preventing suicide.

Luke Air Force Base now has 85 F-35s and in January reached a milestone of more than 1,000 flights from the base in one month. January also saw a dramatic increase in noise complaints from people living around the base in Glendale.

A French yellow vest protester's hand was ripped apart Saturday during violent clashes in Paris as demonstrators tried to storm the French National Assembly in a 13th consecutive week of unrest.

U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces said Saturday they have launched a final push to defeat the Islamic State group in the last tiny pocket the extremists hold in eastern Syria.

Jeff Bezos has long guarded his personal privacy and that of his businesses with vehemence. This quest for privacy imploded in recent weeks as Bezos, the world's wealthiest man and the owner of The Washington Post, faced perhaps the most personal crisis of his career

A Maryland woman said Friday that she was sexually assaulted by Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, D, in a "premeditated and aggressive" attack in 2000, while both were undergraduate students at Duke University. She is the second woman this week to accuse him of sexual assault. Fairfax forcefully denied both allegations.

Two months after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, a mysterious company called Sardes sprang into existence. The firm started business with a bang in January of 2018, when it imported about $41 million worth of gold from Venezuela.

Leaders have turned their backs on each other. They have traded barbs. Military and business ties are fraying, and the media is up in arms. Relations between Japan and South Korea, the most important U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region, are unraveling fast.

A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has been transferred from a secret location near the capital to another in Karachi, but is still unable to leave the country to join her daughters in Canada, a friend said Saturday.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson has directed Arkansas Adjutant General Mark Berry to move Arkansas National Guard personnel from New Mexico to Texas to assist with border security there.

The remains of an 18-year-old Monona sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in September.

A Madera, Calif., man shot and killed by police Thursday night was a U.S. Navy veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who left an officer no option when he advanced with a knife, Chief Dino Lawson said Friday afternoon.

On March 21, 1968, an F-101B Voodoo supersonic fighter jet plunged into the chilly waters of Cape Cod Bay about 12 miles off the coast. Family members of the two Air Force officers who died in the crash have long since left New England to resume their lives. Nearly 50 years later, a large ceramic stein belonging to one of the officers turned up during major renovation of a base building.

President Donald Trump spent more than four hours at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a checkup supervised by Dr. Sean P. Conley, his physician, and involving a panel of 11 specialists.

Monica Bennett got goosebumps when she received a Silver Star inscribed with the name of WWII veteran Army Capt. Ralph Printz, a man she never knew.

A small bipartisan group of lawmakers plans to work through the weekend to craft a government spending deal in hopes of averting another partial shutdown by Feb. 15 — but it's far from certain President Donald Trump will sign the deal.

Nearly 40 years after his trial, and 30 years after his death in Florida's electric chair, Ted Bundy's deadly charm continues to captivate and perplex.

Redevelopment cash is helping spruce up 40 smaller Russian cities with a combined population of 23 million, stretching from Europe to the Far East, as well as historic towns in Russia's west. Still, with cuts in health-care spending and proposals to raise the retirement age, it's an open question whether Russians will be mollified for long.

An outdated, patchwork approach to managing computer systems has slowed the U.S. military's adoption of artificial intelligence at a time when rival nations are investing deeply in those capabilities, U.S. military officials wrote in a strategy document released last week.