Новости за 20.09.2019

Walmart will stop selling e-cigarettes at its U.S. stores, the company said Friday, as vaping-related deaths and illnesses are rising across the country.

Billionaire Robert Smith's pledge to pay off the education loans of the 2019 graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta was expanded Friday to also cover the educational loans taken out by their parents.

A veteran’s final hours of life were marked by “shallow breathing” and a “furrowed brow” — signs he was suffering — due to a hospice nurse at the Bedford VA hospital who is accused of stealing the man’s painkillers, court papers show.

President Donald Trump is warning European nations to take back citizens who joined the Islamic State and are now being held prisoner in Syria and Iraq. It's time for countries such as Germany and France to take back the "thousands" of citizens who joined the extremist organization.

Under pressure from environmental protests and growing support for the opposition Green party, the German government agreed Friday on a $60 billion package of measures for tackling climate change.

The Navy’s recently revived 2nd Fleet deployed a carrier strike group last week without its aircraft carrier, the USS Harry S. Truman, which remains idled because of an electrical malfunction.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has altered how it calculates the average number of veteran suicides each day, meaning the 20-per-day statistic – widely known and often cited by elected officials – has changed to 17.

“These uniforms were nonstandard in nature, which demonstrates the uniqueness of U.S. Army Special Forces and their mission,” said Lt. Col. Loren Bymer, U.S. Army Special Operations Command spokesman.

Iraqi security officials said an explosion in a minibus on Friday outside Karbala has killed nine people.

Thousands of motorcyclists will ride again through the nation’s capital during the 2020 Memorial Day weekend as part of a new three-day rally designed to replace the popular Rolling Thunder event that ended in May, a national veterans organization announced Friday.

John Keenan, the police official who led New York City's manhunt for the "Son of Sam" killer, and eventually took a case-solving confession from David Berkowitz, died Thursday. He was 99.

Sixteen million Americans served in World War II. In the European theater, roughly 94,000 of those soldiers lived out part of their service as a kriegsgefangener, which is German for prisoner of war. Friday is a day to remember them, and those who never came home.

The heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry remained wrapped in scaffolding Friday as workers sought to repair the charred innards and shrapnel-blasted arteries caused by drone-and-cruise-missile attacks that raised tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

The United States planned to sign an agreement on Friday to help make one of Central America's most violent countries, El Salvador, a haven for migrants seeking asylum, according to a senior Trump administration official.

Hundreds of personnel lined the streets of Ramstein Air Base Friday to give a salute to two military working dogs as they left base, secure in their kennels in the back of a van, for their last ride.

It's a complete copycat of the Captain Andrew Luck Twitter feed. In it, Navy football player Elan Nash purportedly writes to his mother about current events as though he were a soldier in the Union Army.

"Lt. Colonel Kent Fay (was) the highest ranking American soldier killed in the department of Oise," said Christophe Clement, chairman of the French National Association Research Team 1939-1945, which aims to preserve the memory of the WWII era through historical research, organization of official commemorations and historical reconstructions of exhibitions.

The first time I went to London, I asked a friend who lived there for bookstore recommendations. “Well,” he said with a pause, “that depends. What kind?” I was too embarrassed to admit I didn’t realize I had to specify. But given that I was in the center of the English-speaking literary world, it was an entirely reasonable question.

RAF Mildenhall’s main gate reopened Friday evening four hours after it was closed to allow British police to investigate a suspicious package, officials said. The investigation found no threat to the base or personnel.

The scandal surrounding Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after a yearbook photo showing him in blackface at a 2001 costume party was published is bringing attention to a practice that scholars say white people have been using for years to demean minorities.

Work begins Saturday on the National Mall to establish a long-sought memorial recognizing the military service of Native Americans – service that many in the United States remain unaware of, according to leaders of the project.

President Donald Trump defended himself Friday against an intelligence whistleblower's potentially explosive complaint, including an allegation of wrongdoing in a reported private conversation Trump had with a foreign leader.

U.S. diplomats and military officials met this week with a Libyan militia leader whose offensive on Tripoli earlier this year forced American troops out of the country, but who is now seen as key to ending the country’s eight-year-old civil war.

Retired Air Force officer Bill Small got a jolt in March when the Social Security Administration notified him that it had overpaid his wife, Bess, during two decades of disbursing her monthly benefit. The Smalls are 85 years old and she has been diagnosed with dementia, but the SSA is demanding that he repay a total of $38,192 on her behalf.

When the dive boat Conception set off on its fateful voyage, those on board needed power — a lot of it. And they plugged their electronic devices into a series of outlets concealed in the back of foam-filled L-shaped benches in the ship’s galley. Those outlets are now the focus as officials try to determine the cause of the fire that killed 34 people.