Новости за 24.04.2019

Originally constructed by the U.S. Air Force as Larson Air Force Base in the late 1940s, the air base in Moses Lake, Wash., became a Strategic Air Command base in 1960, hosting long-range B-52s and KC-135 tankers until its closure in 1966.

Nationwide, at least 673 cases have been reported in 22 states in 2019. This year, as in the past, the majority of people who have fallen ill were unvaccinated, officials have said.

An Air Force intelligence officer serving as an ethics instructor at the Air Force Academy in Colorado faces allegations that he attempted to lure a child on the internet, law enforcement officials announced Wednesday.

Speaking to Russia's state-owned Rossiya-24, Kim said he was hoping for a "successful and useful" visit and would like to discuss with Putin the "settlement of the situation in the Korean Peninsula" as well as bilateral ties with Russia.

While Kentucky Air National Guard Capt. Nathan Tingle typically spends a week in October rucking from Louisville to Morehead in memory of a friend killed in Afghanistan in 2010, this year he will swim in Cave Run Lake, also raising money for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.

Nicole Bacon was so thrilled to get accepted to Oakland's Mills College that she joined Instagram to spread the news. Like many of her peers, she brought social-media savvy to her "college reveal," posting a "Lord of the Rings"-themed selfie featuring a Mills T-shirt, a registration packet, a "one ring" pendant and a wish for "epic quests" with the #admittedtomills hashtag.

In the past two months, the Coast Guard Academy has made substantial additions to simulators and training vessels used to prepare cadets for life in the fleet. The academy is in the midst of a $3 million upgrade to the simulators, the first major upgrade in about 20 years.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned Mexico in a tweet "Better not happen again!" referring to an incident in which Mexican soldiers pulled guns on U.S. National Guard troops "probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border."

Fort Meade Army Reserves lawyer Deirdre Hendrick and Navy Petty Officer First Class Alice Ashton made it their mission to save as many careers as they can of the thousands of fellow transgender military members left behind in the ban on transgender servicemembers.

Civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the first three months of 2019 dropped nearly a quarter from the same period last year but the number of deaths caused by U.S. and pro-government forces rose, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that he and his administration will battle House Democrats on all legal fronts after the special counsel's Russia report, refusing to cooperate with subpoenas and appealing to the Supreme Court if Congress tries to impeach him.

At 75, Vietnam War vet Patrick Toal is lean, whip-smart, self-deprecating and living in pain. His body has been deteriorating for a long time, but this month, doctors diagnosed Toal with late-stage bone cancer.

Israel often demolishes homes of alleged Palestinian assailants or their families, saying it deters future attacks. Rights groups say the demolitions amount to collective punishment.

German prosecutors say they've indicted a 21-year-old woman on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State group and of keeping three Yazidis as slaves in Syria.

A munitions expert said the bomb couldn't be safely defused because the type of detonator it contained was tamper-proof, very sensitive and could have triggered an explosion at any moment.

Nations, like individual human beings, often seem condemned to make the same mistakes over and over. That’s certainly true with countering terrorism.

A chief insight in the reappraisal of Grant is the recognition that, at the beginning of the post-Civil War period of oppression, he acted courageously to protect the rights of freed men and women.

Speaking to Russia's state-owned Rossiya-24, Kim said he's hoping for a "successful and useful" visit and would like to discuss with Putin the "settlement of the situation in the Korean Peninsula" as well as bilateral ties with Russia.

Iranian leaders are defiant in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to impose sanctions on countries that import Iranian oil, vowing to respond to America's move.

The destroyer USS Preble and frigate HMAS Melbourne conducted 10 separate drills Friday, the second training operation for both ships in several days, according to a Navy statement.

Those who have seen the play or listened to the soundtrack of "Hamilton" remember the opening song whose lyrics ask, "How does the bastard son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean" grow up to be ... well, Alexander Hamilton? I don't know, however, I do know that the forgotten spot in the Caribbean is Nevis, located in the northern part of the Caribbean's Lesser Antilles archipelago, just southeast of Puerto Rico and west of Antigua.

President Donald Trump tweets a new threat to send armed soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Television has become such a wildly diverse, densely populated planet that asking "What should I watch?" is like asking "Where should I go on vacation?" But ask, "What is the best show ever?' and the answer is easy: "Game of Thrones."

Miss the Grand McExtreme Bacon Burger or Los Beefos? Some of the endless permutations of foreign McDonald's menu items are headed to its restaurants in the U.S.

More than 200 troops and civilians gathered on the U.S. Navy base here Wednesday to honor the memory of three USS Firebolt crew members killed in a suicide attack 15 years ago.