Новости за 17.06.2019

Jimmy Russell said her son, Eli Gregg, was playing Thursday evening outside of their home in Redfield, about 90 miles south of Kansas City, when she heard him scream. She found him with a 10-inch knife jutting from just below his eye and called 911.

James Belyea, who was 15 years-old at the time of the incident, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday in Strafford County Superior Court for shooting Marine veteran James "Jimmy" LaPrade.

The juvenile who shot and killed Marine veteran James "Jimmy" LaPrade in LaPrade's Farmington home while he slept before shooting and attempting to kill his mother was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday in Strafford County Superior Court.

From atomic testing, to Agent Orange, to burn pits, the U.S. military has a long history of exposing its servicemembers and their families to dangerous materials and chemicals. Some have been exposed more than once.

U.S. troops were secretly participating in U.S. atomic bomb tests and subsequent cleanup operations during World War II and later in the Pacific Ocean, the Nevada desert, New Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Servicemembers took the human brunt of ionizing radiation that contaminated nearby lands, water and communities.

The mournful, pleading, eyebrows-up expression dogs make is so familiar that we have made it into an idiom: puppy-dog eyes. A new study suggests it's yet another example of dogs' ability to communicate with people, one that evolved as the animals were domesticated from ancient wolves at least 15,000 years ago.

Boeing's big new 777X jet, the first of which rolled out of the Everett assembly plant in early March, cannot fly until at least the fall because of a problem with the new GE9X engine.

A 25th Infantry Division soldier who had served in Afghanistan was killed in a Humvee rollover during training at the Army’s Yukon Training Area, the service announced Monday.

A U.S. judge declared a mistrial Monday after a federal jury convicted a second Libyan man of conspiracy in the deadly 2012 attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, but deadlocked on 15 of 17 counts in connection with the deaths of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.

Awash in precious snow and water that will help meet the demands of the state's 40 million residents, the wetness also is forcing California to confront an even greater threat of wildfire.

An FBI agent testified Monday that investigators have not been able to corroborate Brendt Christensen's claim that he killed 12 people before the abduction of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017.

In a partnership with Honor Flight -- Inland Empire, one local city is working to help veterans travel to Washington, D.C. to visit various war memorials.

A man in a mask and combat gear who opened fire Monday morning at the Earle Cabell federal courthouse in downtown Dallas was shot by officers before he could injure anyone.

Brian Isaack Clyde served as an infantryman from August 2015 to February 2017 and achieved the rank of private first class, according to the Army.

Harold Cantrell, a retired school teacher and a U.S. Navy veteran who served during the Korean War, went missing July 5, 2017, less than six weeks after he was admitted to an assisted living facility in Daytona Beach, Florida.

For years, Joshua Raines has been using marijuana illegally to treat the epilepsy and PTSD he developed during his five years in the Army. His diagnosis was set off after suffering a traumatic brain injury during a bomb explosion while in Afghanistan.

Cal Cunningham, a former North Carolina state senator courted by national Democrats to take on Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., next year, formally announced his candidacy Monday, setting up what could be another hard-fought contest in the swing state.

The chief executives of United Technologies Corp. and Raytheon Co. on Monday defended the proposed merger of their companies, the second time in a week they explained the rationale for the massive aerospace and defense industry tie-up.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the challenge to a lower court's findings that some of Virginia's legislative districts were racially gerrymandered, saying that House Republicans did not have legal standing to challenge the decision.

Congressional leaders are hoping this week will produce a breakthrough in negotiations over emergency funding for the migrant crisis at the southern border so they can pass it before the Independence Day recess.

Compartmentalize and weaponize. That’s the lesson congressional Democrats should take from 1998.

The senator stacks the deck when it comes to our political choices too. He posits a world in which the phenomenon of left-wing authoritarianism has never existed.

An Air Force Academy sergeant will face an evidence hearing Friday on a string of charges including 10 counts of assault.

Bill Chin still remembers the panic he felt as he dodged the Nazi bullets raining down around him, watching in shock as a friend was killed by machine-gun fire. He was proud to be serving his country, he said, but fear was inevitable.

A candidate opened her two-page paean to the rule of law explaining why she wanted to serve on the Arizona Court of Appeals. The problem was that her soaring rhetoric closely echoed that of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who delivered it March 2017 in his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee.