Новости за 26.03.2019

Attorney General William Barr backed up President Donald Trump's assertions that no one from his team conspired with the Russian government, but Barr stood by Mueller's determination that Moscow had launched a covert effort to meddle in U.S. politics.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly rebuked Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for her recent comments about the motivation of American allies of Israel, arguing that her remarks do more than just attack Israel, they target the Jewish people.

One senior Israeli official pointed to the Trump administration's recognition of the occupied Golan Heights as evidence of a new attitude in Washington.

Algeria's influential army chief on Tuesday urged that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika be declared unfit for office, a move that could pave the way for the ailing leader's ouster amid weeks of mass protests against his lengthy rule.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie pushed back Tuesday against reports that he launched an internal campaign to become the next secretary of defense.

Members of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday told top Pentagon officials that they are not on board with their plans to divert roughly $1 billion in funding to help build a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Building upon technology already at their fingertips, Marines gathered at Okinawa’s first-ever Marine Maker Innovation Boot Camp this month to learn how they can put robotics, 3D printing and other tools to work on the battlefield.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged rank-and-file Democrats behind closed doors to “be calm” as they try to pivot from matters that have been mostly about Trump to the campaign promises that helped propel them to the House majority last fall.

More than half of the Army’s brigade combat teams have achieved top levels of preparedness to fight a major ground war, the service’s top general said Tuesday, noting only three brigades were considered fully prepared to fight in 2015.

Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie recommended the Justice Department not contest a federal court ruling that could extend benefits to Vietnam veterans who served on ships offshore during the war, he announced Tuesday.

Israel's prime minister rushed back to Israel to deal with the crisis after a meeting with President Donald Trump, canceling an address to the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby group and meetings with congressional leaders.

A raid coupled with U.S. airstrikes targeting Taliban fighters ended with five civilian deaths, including one child, the U.S. military said on Tuesday, one day after a United Nations report found an earlier coalition strike may have killed more than a dozen civilians.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc. and freedom of speech activists suffered a blow after the European Parliament rubber-stamped new rules that could curb access to online media in Europe.

While Congress approved a resolution voiding President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration, the margins by which the House and the Senate passed the measure fell well short of the two-thirds majorities that will be needed to override the veto.

The White House has nominated Army Gen. James McConville to become the service’s next chief of staff, officials announced Tuesday during an Association of the United States Army event.

The Feb. 22 attack, including a bold escape from the embassy with the assailants carrying away computers and data after having shackled and gagged the delegation’s staff, has been claimed online by a group whose self-declared mission is to help defectors of the North Korea.

The Feb. 22 attack, including a bold escape from the embassy with the assailants carrying away computers and data after having shackled and gagged the delegation’s staff, has been claimed online by a group whose self-declared mission is to help defectors of the North Korea.

Officials are investigating a strange smell that forced an evacuation of personnel and patients from the Naval Branch Health Clinic following two separate reports on Sunday and Monday.

Lawyers for the “Empire” actor said that Jussie Smollett’s record “has been wiped clean.” Smollett had been indicted on 16 felony counts related to making a false report that he was attacked by two men who shouted racial and homophobic slurs.

In June, Trump administration lawyers stopped defending key parts of the law, including its guaranteed access to health insurance for people with pre-existing medical conditions. But the administration had said that the rest of the law could stay.

It remains unclear to what degree President Donald Trump is the cause of our political disorder, and to what degree a symptom.

At this point, Trump’s base will see the failure by some to accept Mueller’s findings (coupled with ongoing additional state and congressional investigations) not just as attacks on the president but also as assaults on the voters who put him in the White House.

Army officer and a pilot Anne McClain was scheduled to be part of the spacewalk, which was called off because there is only one medium-sized suit on the space station that is ready for use.

Gunmen attacked a checkpoint of a U.S.-backed force in Syria early Tuesday in the northern town on Manbij, killing seven fighters, an official with the Kurdish-led group said. A war monitor blamed sleeper cells of the Islamic State group.

On a frigid January morning in 1977, an Army pilot's mission was to spray chemicals on a 20-acre starling roost near an Army ammunition depot in Tennessee.