Новости за 30.04.2019

Members of Congress and their families joined other volunteers Tuesday in one of USO's most visible — and appreciated — programs, the packing of snack packages bound for deploying or deployed servicemembers.

Jerry Chun Shing Lee is expected to plead guilty more than a year after being arrested and charged with conspiracy to spy for China and unlawful retention of classified information.

Sun Country Airlines says lightning apparently struck its charter aircraft that was carrying Greater Peoria Honor Flight veterans from Illinois to Washington, D.C.

Lawmakers and military advocates on Tuesday urged new action to support servicemembers exposed to toxic burn pits that have been linked to a long list of serious illnesses.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., called for the U.S. military to be positioned on the Venezuelan border on Tuesday, hours after Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaidó and Leopoldo Lopez declared a “start of the end of the usurpation” with armed soldiers by their side.

About 1,800 workers are trapped at a Sibanye Gold platinum mine in South Africa after an accident halted operation of a shaft used to transport workers.

Vodafone has acknowledged to Bloomberg that it found vulnerabilities going back years with equipment supplied by Shenzhen-based Huawei for the carrier’s Italian business.

President Donald Trump and Democratic congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to work together on a $2 trillion infrastructure package — but put off for later the difficult question of how to pay for it.

Future Florida high school graduates who are members of the U.S. Armed Forces will have the right to wear their dress uniforms at their commencement ceremonies, under legislation (SB 292) unanimously supported by the state House and Senate.

The admiral nominated as the Navy’s next top officer told senators Tuesday that he backed a controversial plan to scrap one of the service’s aircraft carriers halfway through its lifespan to fund newer technology, including unmanned warships.

North Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui pinned much of the blame for the deadlock on U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, rapping the top American diplomat over an interview on CBS last week in which he said Washington could “change paths” if the talks faltered.

The National Security Agency revealed the identities of many more citizens, permanent residents and corporations who were mentioned in intelligence reports last year, in a process known as "unmasking" that has been a source of controversy for President Donald Trump and his allies in Congress.

The Maryland man charged in the Capital Gazette newspaper shooting that left five staff members dead has entered a plea of not criminally responsible to all charges in the case, citing a "mental disorder" that prevented him from conforming to the law.

The National Rifle Association's board unanimously reelected Wayne LaPierre as its chief executive officer and replaced President Oliver North amid an eruption of public squabbling and a probe into the gun-rights group's nonprofit status.

A friend of the woman who police believe was stabbed to death last month by a Navy corpsman, who then killed himself, has started a GoFundMe campaign for the woman’s two children.

The state Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging a firearms website that enabled a man to illegally purchase the pistol he used in a mass shooting at a suburban Milwaukee spa six years ago is liable in the killings, ruling that federal law grants the site operators immunity.

Mueller’s cohesive narrative describes, organizes and contextualizes the complicated events surrounding the 2016 election in a helpfully lucid way.

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Tuesday the department is running out of money amid the crush of migrants crossing the Southern border, and the White House will send a supplemental request for more funds.

Just a few months after South Central was set aflame during the Rodney King riots — violence that “Boyz N the Hood” had presciently anticipated — here was Singleton both critiquing the world he came from and correcting the most reductive and damaging misconceptions about it.

A soldier’s murder, a leftist militant group’s 1985 terrorist attack and a sister’s lingering questions are the focus of a documentary film being shown in Wiesbaden on Wednesday.

The number of jets Japan scrambled to intercept Chinese aircraft approaching its airspace rose sharply in fiscal year 2018, according to the nation’s Ministry of Defense.

The lawsuit against Deutsche Bank, which has loaned Trump more than $360 million in recent years, and Capital One is designed to prevent the two institutions from providing records to the House Intelligence and Financial Services committees.

Google's YouTube reached a deal with Major League Baseball for exclusive rights to stream games in the second half of the season, continuing the expansion of live sports to the internet.

Australian Rear Adm. Stuart Mayer has been named the new deputy commander of the U.S.-led United Nations Command in South Korea, according to a press release on Tuesday.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Tuesday that his panel would make a criminal referral to the Justice Department regarding potential false testimony by the billionaire founder of the private military contractor Blackwater.