Новости за 11.06.2019

The Greater Cleveland Fisher House — two buildings each with 16 guest suites — is expected to host more than 1,000 families a year.

Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Grinston, who has been in the service for more than 30 years, has been selected to be the 16th sergeant major of the Army, the service announced Tuesday.

The Navy plans to decide by late 2022 how to dispose of the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and likely will turn to the private sector for help. The former USS Enterprise, now rusted and gutted, sits pier-side at Huntington Ingalls Newport News shipyard, where it was built and launched amid great fanfare more than 50 years ago.

Donald Trump Jr. will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second closed-door interview with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, according to people familiar with the plans, as part of a deal he struck with leaders last month after the panel issued a subpoena for his testimony.

The Senate Appropriations Committee plans to take up a supplemental spending bill next week to address the surge of migrants at the U.S. southern border, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday.

An Omaha man convicted in March of first-degree murder in the 2018 death of a U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to life in prison.

Ana Garcia Cowan, who told herself she could be a champion bodybuilder before she joined the Army and served in Iraq and Kuwait, has achieved the goal she wrote down in a notebook so long ago.

A defense authorization bill introduced in the U.S. House this week would try to force the Pentagon to produce a plan for cleaning up PFAS chemicals at military installations and phasing out fire-fighting foam containing the toxic fluorinated chemicals.

Under President Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency is abandoning its core mission to protect the air, water and human health, former leaders of the agency told Congress Tuesday.

Statesville’s planning board appears to be taking sides with the local business owner who insists his huge American flag should be allowed to stay up, despite violating city rules regarding flag sizes.

Sick first responders to the Sept. 11 attacks gave emotional testimony to Congress Tuesday, demanding lawmakers extend a compensation fund for those ailing and dying of diseases linked to toxic debris at the disaster sites.

The Air Force’s highest ranking female fighter pilot was removed from her job leading the Pentagon office responsible for overseeing some of the military’s closest-held secret programs, defense officials said Tuesday.

The Air Force’s highest ranking female fighter pilot was removed from her job leading the Pentagon office responsible for overseeing some of the military’s closest-held secret programs, defense officials said Tuesday.

Pakistani officials believe the virus was transmitted through the use of dirty needles at health clinics, a common problem in one of the least developed corners of Pakistan. Sixteen children and two women have died because of infections, according to local doctors. Health teams backed by the WHO have swept in to conduct thousands of emergency screenings.

Rep. Justin Amash resigned from the conservative House Freedom Caucus he helped found following his call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. “I have the highest regard for them, and they’re my close friends,” the Michigan Republican told CNN. “I didn’t want to be a further distraction."

Edwin D. Fragoso, 45, of Freeport, N.Y., pleaded guilty Friday in New York’s Eastern District federal court to one count of conspiracy. He paid nearly $100,000 in bribes to a NEX employee in exchange for tax-free booze and resold the liquor for profit, according to a Justice Department statement.

A Chinese aircraft carrier sailed between two islands belonging to Japan’s Okinawa prefecture Tuesday morning, according to Japanese officials.

The alternative to a seismic survey to search for oil — a low-flying plane making frequent passes over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — could still disturb polar bears, seals and calving caribou, according to conservationists and the Interior Department’s own experts.

A Chinese woman charged with illegally entering President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort will be allowed to act as her own attorney.

The United States recently concluded its 25th year of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training, or CARAT, drills with the Royal Thai Navy.

Adam Smith’s first bill as House Armed Services chairman will surely stir contentious debate during the panel’s markup Wednesday of the annual Pentagon policy bill, a marathon session that is expected to extend into the early morning hours Thursday.

Frozen mammoth specimens excavated from permafrost in Russia's Siberia region, including some world firsts, are on display at an exhibition at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo.

Here’s a look at where things stand on the first anniversary of the first summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany -- Brig. Gen. Christopher Norrie took command of the 7th Army Training Command on Tuesday.

Raytheon Co.'s planned merger with United Technologies Corp. is under Pentagon review even though military leaders won't get to make the call on approving one of the biggest defense industry deals ever.