Новости за 13.09.2019

The costs to clean up chemical contaminates suspected at more than 400 current and former military sites could eclipse the $2 billion estimate that the Pentagon projected in March, defense officials said Thursday.

The governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas has suggested investigators reach out to the FBI for assistance in a case of eight alleged extrajudicial killings carried out by Tamaulipas police.

A 19-year-old South Carolina man killed in a motorcycle crash Wednesday morning in Carlsbad was a Camp Pendleton Marine, authorities said Thursday.

Soldiers at Fort Bragg previously went to places like Fort Stewart, Georgia, for training. Now Fort Bragg is receiving requests from other installations that want to use its newest range.

A former Roman Catholic priest who fled the country decades ago was sentenced Friday in New Mexico to 30 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually abusing an altar boy at a veterans' cemetery and military base.

Pfc. Josue Valdez Sarmiento is now under investigation following his actions at a California school, where he attempted to break up a fight by tackling two students.

Two teens were engaged in fisticuffs on the grounds of a California school when a Marine sprinted across the lawn, tackling one of them from behind and taking both kids to the ground in an incident captured on video and now under investigation.

Hungary's prime minister said Friday that Western countries in the European Union are suffering from "enlargement fatigue" and using newer members as a scapegoat for their problems.

Actress Felicity Huffman returned to court Friday to be sentenced for her role in a sweeping college admissions bribery scandal.

Struggling through Parkinson's disease, dementia and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, Harry Glixon spent the last decade of his life racing the undertaker, pecking away at the keyboards with the two-fingered intensity that characterized his typing skills.

Taiwan has signaled to U.S. officials that it will move swiftly to complete the purchase of 66 new F-16 fighters once congressional foreign relations committees complete their review this month, according to a State Department official.

A North Korean government vessel with an armed crew threatened a Fisheries Agency's patrol ship in the Sea of Japan in late August, prompting Japanese fishing boats operating in the area to flee, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

In New York City, a woman walks into a federal building that goes unnoticed by most passersby on account of its “paranatural” qualities, which make it there and not there. An extraterrestrial voice in her head tells her where to go. She passes through the empty lobby of the Federal Bureau of Control and meets a janitor with a Finnish accent thick enough to make subtitles an appealing option.

Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., is demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs about how a veteran stricken with cancer and living in a VA nursing home could be bitten more than 100 times by ants before his death.

"Hustlers" opens with a long Steadicam shot following new girl Destiny (Constance Wu) as she strolls into her own destiny, winding her way from the warm womb of a strip club dressing room, onto the club floor. With this visual nod, director Lorene Scafaria asserts just what her film is, and what it’s about. It’s not just "the J. Lo stripper movie," although it is that, and how.

The U.S. sanctioned three North Korean state-sponsored groups that it says were responsible for hacking the interbank messaging system Swift and a ransomware attack called WannaCry 2.0 that crippled Britain's National Health Service and Renault factories across Europe.

Donna Tartt’s Pulizter Prize-winning tome "The Goldfinch" was a blockbuster bestseller and the toast of book clubs in 2013. The film adaptation should have been slam dunk, with director John Crowley, fresh off the acclaimed "Brooklyn," legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins, and screenwriter Peter Straughan adapting Tartt’s novel. And yet, the movie is simpering and dull, devoid of tension, an overwrought and uninvolving film that is both a personal drama and a crime mystery, but also neither of those things, and nearly, nothing at all.

A deepening feud between Japan and South Korea threatened to undercut next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, as the two sides sparred over whether spectators could wave "rising sun" flags associated with Japan's militarist past. Japanese Olympics Minister rejected South Korea's call to ban the flag as political propaganda.

The U.S. government continued to provide dozens of bomb-sniffing dogs to the Kingdom of Jordan, even as the animals were dying of serious health problems and others were so poorly treated that they had “lost the will to work,” a government evaluation found.

The Air Force has banned cargo and passengers aboard its KC-46A Pegasus tanker jets after floor cargo restraints unlocked during recent test flights, according to the service’s Air Mobility Command.

All five touchdowns scored by Perry came on the ground, which has been customary for Frank Macias-coached teams over the years since he helped revive the program six years ago.

New vehicle-mounted communications gear allows soldiers at the frontlines to keep vital communications channels open and gives them more room to carry supplies, servicemembers taking part in Exercise Saber Junction said Friday.

Current and former federal employees and military personnel starting Sunday will have more options when withdrawing money from their retirement accounts.

A deal that still requires Congressional approval calls for the sale of $776 million anti-armor TOW missiles and various supporting elements to bolster Morocco’s ground defenses, as well as $209 million in bombs to arm its F-16s.

Coast Guard officials are asking for the public’s help to identify a person who is broadcasting threats and fake calls for help.