Новости за 24.02.2019

The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush will spend much of the next 28 months in dry dock at the Navy's public shipyard for a scheduled overhaul.

Last spring, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources warned Truax Air National Guard base in Madison it could face enforcement action if it didn’t move swiftly to clean up toxic chemicals that were showing up in municipal drinking water. But responses have been slow in coming.

The vote is a three-way contest between the broadly pro-Russia opposition Socialists, whose former leader, Igor Dodon became Moldova’s president in 2016, the Democrats and a pro-European group, ACUM.

After California’s “sanctuary state” law limited police from collaborating with federal immigration agents, one legislator wants to prevent local government from doing business with companies that he says help in the Trump administration’s “deportation machine.”

There are family members who still want to know why Willie Edwards, a 24-year-old husband and father, was abducted and beaten by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957, then forced to leap to his death from a bridge over the Alabama River near Montgomery, Alabama.

Okinawans on Sunday voted against a plan to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Ginowan to Henoko — a coastal area in the northeastern part of the main island — in a closely watched prefecture-wide referendum that was the first of its kind on the issue.

Just over half of Okinawa’s 1.15 million registered voters turned out Sunday to deliver a resounding “no” vote in a referendum on the plan to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

Just over half of Okinawa’s 1.15 million registered voters turned out Sunday to deliver a resounding “no” vote in a referendum on the plan to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.

Voters in the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa resoundingly rejected the construction of a new U.S. military base on their island in a referendum on Sunday, causing a fresh headache for the central government and for U.S. forces in Japan.

The National Security Council initiative would include scientists who question the severity of climate impacts and the extent to which humans contribute to the problem, according to these individuals, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

A long-awaited study looking at seal culling, shark barriers and other strategies is expected to launch soon, but the exhaustive analysis won’t be completed before the summer season, as hoped by Cape Cod residents.

British Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters Sunday that her negotiating team would return to Brussels on Tuesday for talks aimed at wringing concessions out of her reluctant EU partners.

For nearly 40 years, Bill Burhans has maintained he wasn’t drunk when, as an Air Force lieutenant colonel driving U.S. military liaisons home from a holiday party in East Germany, he lost control of the car and slammed into a bus. A Stasi report has come to light that clears his name. But is it too little, too late?

The attacks eliminated checkpoints and facilities used by al-Shabaab to collect taxes to fund their violent campaign in Somalia, said a statement Sunday from the U.S. Africa command.

The Houston judge sided with a San Diego men's advocacy group that challenged the government's practice of having only men sign up for the draft.

The games were played on Sunday for the first time, and at the league’s home for the 2019 season, Habu Field at Kadena’s Ryukyu Middle School.

The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan documented more than 3,800 civilian deaths in the country last year, including about 930 children, both annual records.

The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan documented more than 3,800 civilian deaths in the country last year, including about 930 children, both annual records.

A tornado smashed into a commercial district in the small Mississippi city of Columbus on Saturday afternoon, shattering businesses as severe storms raked the South amid days of drenching rains and a rising flood threat.

There is no record that a religious event has ever been held at the Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Md., in 94 years.

What little is known about the man Kim Jong Un has tapped to prepare his summit with President Donald Trump suggests he's more familiar with defending North Korea's nuclear arsenal than giving it up.

Dozens of private and city-owned security cameras played a critical role in helping investigators unravel "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's alleged hoax attack, police and prosecutors say. Officials say investigators were suspicious of Smollett from the outset.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein is under fire after video shows her arguing with children who visited her office in hopes of swaying her vote on climate change legislation.

While charges against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft for soliciting prostitution brought national attention to the issue of sex trafficking on Friday, data, expert opinion and cases from around the USA show how widespread the problem is.

Vietnam lies over the ocean, but it's close at hand for Leon Howard. More than 50 years after a 13-month stint in Vietnam as a Marine Corps scout ended, Howard, like many who fought in the unpopular war, suffers from PTSD.