Новости за 01.04.2019

Heavy rain over much of the Midwest on Saturday caused another spike in water levels along the river and its tributaries, especially in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois.

An airborne infantryman was shot and killed Saturday during an exercise in the Donnelly Training Area near Fort Greely, Alaska, the Army said Monday.

The International Rescue Committee said Monday the highest weekly death rate reflects the desperate conditions of the mostly women and children who left the village of Baghouz for al-Hol camp.

A memorial coming to Washington will honor the roughly 141,000 veterans and 15,100 active duty service members who are Native Americans. The memorial, which will be outside the National Museum of the American Indian, is expected to open on Veterans Day in 2020.

Cecile Eledge had gone through menopause, but she was approved as a surrogate after extensive screening. She gave birth to her granddaughter last week at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

Researchers operating the Big Bots Project said in a report that they uncovered hundreds of fake accounts spreading messages in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and smearing his opponents. Likud denied the allegations.

The National Park Service declared the cherry blossoms in Washington reached peak bloom Monday, meaning 70 percent of the trees at the Tidal Basin are fully flowering.

Being a grown-up is hard. Being a financially independent grown-up is harder. Our children must take on a lot when they reach adulthood: rent, food, transportation, insurance, not to mention staying connected (cellphone, cable and/or WiFi) and perhaps student loans.

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg says the company is considering building a dedicated tab on the social network for news, and is willing to pay publishers for high-quality content.

Surveyors from the Army Corps of Engineers will spend the next week assessing sites near Yuma, Ariz., and El Paso, Texas, where construction of a border wall is projected to begin as early as next month, a defense official confirmed Friday.

The high-profile, open-air holding pen filled with migrant parents and children under the Paso del Norte International Bridge is empty. Customs and Border Protection officials shut down the pen Saturday night and began transferring migrant parents and kids to facilities in the region, including New Mexico.

David Johnston, the agency’s social media director, is following in the footsteps of Curtis “Bob” Burns, who created unlikely internet buzz for the not-always-beloved agency by showcasing the weirdest prohibited items packed in carry-ons.

As one of eight children in a family rampant with abuse and neglect, Christina Meredith was bounced from relative to relative until eventually being placed in St. Johns County Foster Care in her teens. JROTC offered her a path to a better life, she said.

What was meant to be a swift blitzkrieg against a crumbling dictatorship has turned into a war of attrition in which the primary weapon, for both sides, is human hardship.

If Democrats want to woo renegade Republicans and independents, they’d best focus on uniting their constituents under a banner of shared values rather than encouraging good men to apologize for being born.

An Illinois state trooper who police called “another great hero of Illinois’’ was killed early Saturday morning by a wrong-way driver who struck his vehicle and also died.

Karl Eikenberry touts building civil society and government accountability in fragile states where extremism is taking hold, and hopefully, through such efforts, reducing the number of the disenfranchised who end up drawn to violent groups that embrace terror.

NATO said construction on the site near Powidz, Poland, will begin this summer and is expected to take about two years to complete.

The planned committee vote, announced Monday morning, would not automatically issue subpoenas but authorize House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., to send them.

The issue affected several airlines, including Southwest, Delta and Jet Blue, according to airline officials. But a spokesman for the FAA said the impact was "minimal" in terms of the number of planes.

The Irish Times reported that the two breached security in an effort to reach an aircraft they believed was used to transport U.S. troops. The men did not reach the aircraft and were detained by authorities.

Jokes included posts about the Air Force authorizing beards for its airmen and the Marine Corps approving barracks pets for members of the III Marine Expeditionary Force.

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry says the courts have over the past four years decided 478 cases and sentenced 284 to death.

Police say the militants belonged to an ISIS-aligned jihadist group called Syuful Khilafa Fi Luzon, which was established in 2016.

Army regulations had previously barred most soldiers from wearing filtering masks in uniform. By contrast, the Air Force permitted masks when pollution hit a certain level.