Новости за 12.06.2019

For the first time, federal prosecutors have disclosed they are developing a potential national security case against Yujing Zhang, the 33-year-old Chinese woman charged with unlawfully entering Mar-a-Lago with a stash of electronic equipment.

U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter’s wife is planning to change her not-guilty plea after the couple were charged with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds on vacations and other expenses.

The U.S. Postal Service released a commemorative Forever stamp Wednesday featuring former President George H.W. Bush in honor of what would have been the 41st president’s 95th birthday.

The House Oversight Committee voted 24-15 to advance contempt measures against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for failing to comply with subpoenas for documents related to a decision adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

On Tuesday, the agency announced it has chosen a military base as a temporary shelter: Fort Sill in Oklahoma, which was used during World War II as a Japanese internment camp. Before that, it was the longtime prison for Apache leader Geronimo.

Gov. Kate Brown has designated a statewide observance recognizing women veterans for the first time in Oregon history, Wednesday, June 12, is recognized as Women Veterans Day.

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn has retained conservative lawyer and commentator Sidney Powell as his new counsel as he awaits sentencing for lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of interference in the 2016 election.

This week on Force for Hire, we bring aboard a pair of experts to examine an aspect of military contracting that ties into issues of human rights abuses and modern-day slavery.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families said that the Fort Benning military installation was no longer available to shelter the children.

The material procured under the Department of Defense order will be used to replace worn out nozzles and blades during the repair process, thus extending the life of engines, the department said.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is considering a move of up to 2,000 troops from Germany to Poland, a country that had proposed building a “Fort Trump” in hopes of luring the United States to base a larger American military force there.

Military veterans have told the Department of Veterans Affairs that one of the top things they struggle with is accessing legal assistance. U.S. Rep. Susan Wild introduced a bill on Wednesday seeking to address that need, with a specific focus on female veterans.

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted unanimously in support of a bill that would give fresh money to a compensation fund for those who are sick or dying from illnesses linked to their work amid the toxic debris at 9/11 attack sites.

Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, says an investigation into allegations of mismanagement at the U.S. Naval War College is continuing and he’s confident the college will be stronger in the end.

The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of the concept of executive privilege. However, presidents from George Washington to Trump have resisted demands to share sensitive information with Congress. Some have succeeded. But over the past few decades, presidents have lost key court battles to withhold information.

A top military commander at Redstone Arsenal says the big base is “thriving” with new missions and a “never better” relationship with local, state and regional government. He also thinks it has a good case to make to young technology talent looking for work.

Following a day of sit-ins, tear gas and clashes with police, Hong Kong students and civil rights activists vowed Wednesday to keep protesting a proposed extradition bill that has become a lightning rod for concerns over greater Chinese control and erosion of civil liberties in the former British colony.

In high-level talks in Mogadishu on Tuesday, U.S. Africa Command’s Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser and U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto discussed how to keep momentum “moving forward” in the Horn of Africa country, which has been in disarray for more than 20 years.

Hundreds of people were detained Wednesday as they marched in the Russian capital to protest what they called police fabrications in the wake of the arrest of an investigative journalist on drug charges that later were dropped when the government admitted there was no evidence he committed a crime.

A climber who suffered life-threatening injures in a 200-foot fall near the Fourth of July Mine in the mountains of Boulder County was rescued Tuesday by a Colorado National Guard Black Hawk helicopter.

A 5-year-old boy vomiting blood became the first cross-border victim of Ebola in the current outbreak on Wednesday, while two more people in Uganda tested positive for the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 1,400 in Congo.

Single-soldier tours in Europe and Japan will increase from two to three years in a move designed to save money and boost the combat readiness of overseas units, the Army said Tuesday.

The Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Izumo helicopter carrier has joined the United States’ sole forward-deployed aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, in joint military exercises in the disputed South China Sea, the MSDF and U.S. 7th Fleet said in separate statements Wednesday.

The backstories behind some of the biggest issues faced by the Department of Defense during former Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s tenure are told in “Inside the Five-Sided Box: Lessons from a Lifetime of Leadership in the Pentagon.”

Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia won't officially receive his Medal of Honor from President Donald Trump for another two weeks but already, he says, everything's changed.