Новости за 20.02.2019

A powerful Wisconsin legislator has demanded a detailed review of the state National Guard's sexual harassment and assault policies after meeting with a soldier who alleges she was sexually harassed and the perpetrator was never punished.

Stuttgart, Sigonella, Brussels move on, while other top seeds impressive in first day of action.

The motto, which has been the same for nearly 60 years, has been a point of recent controversy. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a national veterans organization, described the motto as sexist, outdated and exclusionary.

Stuttgart stages minor upset on a day where most favored seeds played like it.

No one at Virginia's Department of Historic Resources realized what encrusted, corroded balls were when they were excavated in the 1980s along with 5,000 other relics from The Betsy, a British ship sunk in the York River in 1781. Decades later, they turned out to be hand grenades.

A prominent Afghan political leader who once had the support of some officials to lead Afghanistan's negotiating team with the Taliban, warned the president Wednesday against squandering the best opportunity at peace in more than 17 years of war.

While it is likely the U.S. House will be able to pass gun control bills with its Democratic majority, there are very low chances that the Senate’s Republican leadership will give any a vote. But proposals continue to grow on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.

For much of the past four decades, North Korea's nuclear ambitions have focused on a sprawling complex nestled in the mountains north of Pyongyang. All of that could come to an end after President Donald Trump and leader Kim Jong Un meet next week.

Starting Thursday, Francis is convening a summit at the Vatican to prevent cover-ups of sex abuse by Catholic superiors everywhere.

Officials at the William C. Lee Airborne Museum in Dunn believe “some jerk punk” mistook the the founder of the U.S. Army Airborne for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Soldiers assigned to the 101st Airborne Division are beginning to return home from Afghanistan after nine-month deployments.

Jeremy Cuellar, 24, and Kemia Hassel, 22, are charged with murder after police said they were having an affair and planned a fatal attack on Hassel’s husband, U.S. Army Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III, 23, on Monday, Dec. 31, 2018.

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, likely will bring in more funding and interest with the creation of the Space Force, said Loren Thompson, a senior defense analyst with the Virginia-based Lexington Institute.

Ukraine's president says a U.N.-mandated peacekeeping operation could be decisive in ending the conflict in the east with Russian-backed separatists — and says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres should send a mission to come up with options.

Glance around the “Jeopardy!” set during rehearsals for its first-ever team championship and it’s easy to be intimidated by the assembled brain power. There’s Brad Rutter, whose overall “Jeopardy!” haul, $4.3 million, is the most won on any game show. And Ken Jennings, a 74-game winner and top moneymaker, with $2.5 million, in non-tournament “Jeopardy!” competition. And Buzzy Cohen, the reigning Tournament of Champions winner. They’re among the six captains who will join their teams in competing... Читать дальше...

Brig. Gen. Christopher Norrie, who led one of the first major tank unit rotations into Europe since the Cold War drawdown, was named the next head of the Army’s top training command on the Continent.

The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon expressed concerns Tuesday over the militant Hezbollah group's growing role in the new Cabinet, saying it does not contribute to stability.

The court ruled in favor of Tyson Timbs of Marion, Ind., whose $42,000 Land Rover was seized after he was arrested for selling a couple of hundred dollars’ worth of heroin.

The Federal Trade Commission is under pressure to issue a steep fine and other sharp penalties against Facebook to prove that it's able to keep Silicon Valley in check, privacy advocates and congressional lawmakers say.

Iraq is close to finalizing a deal that will allow it to import Iranian energy despite American sanctions by avoiding the U.S. dollar, an Iraqi official said.

Microsoft uncovered cyber attacks targeting European think tanks by hackers linked to the Russian government, underscoring concerns of potential interference in European Union elections this May.

The suit alleges that The Post “targeted and bullied” Nicholas Sandmann, 16, a student from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky who encountered a Native American activistat the National Mall, in order to embarrass President Donald Trump.

The Russian Defense Ministry has released a video showing a test of a new nuclear-powered underwater drone that Russian President Vladimir Putin says is immune to interception.

Britain's top diplomat has urged Germany to relax its ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia because they are affecting U.K. sales of weapons to — and by extension its influence with — the oil-rich kingdom.

A Pennsylvania nonprofit dedicated to educating Americans about citizenship and community service has agreed — in principle — to send a Marine hero’s Medal of Honor back to his hometown for display following a protracted fight.