Новости за 19.12.2019

An unidentified gunman opened fire Thursday outside the Moscow headquarters of Russia's top security agency, killing one officer and wounding five others, officials said.

Facial-recognition systems misidentified people of color more often than white people, a landmark federal study released Thursday shows, casting new doubts on a rapidly expanding investigative technique widely used by law enforcement across the United States.

The Senate has voted to advance a $1.4 trillion government spending package in a last, bipartisan burst of legislating before bolting for the holidays from a Capitol that's toxic with impeachment.

The defense authorization bill that President Donald Trump is expected to sign into law soon would require the Defense Department to report to Congress on efforts to rid official military documents of “racially or ethnically insensitive” terms.

Congress on Thursday approved the country's first major anti-robocall law in decades, hoping that a mix of new federal powers and regulations targeting the telecom industry will spell relief from spam calls that rang consumers a record 54 billion times this year.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Pentagon to turn over thousands of documents that the Defense Department has refused to release to the public but has said it used to justify its decision to ban most transgender people from military service.

When historians tell the story of Trump’s legacy of weakening the Constitution, they will now include the House’s response. That matters.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson signaled an end to Britain’s era of Brexit deadlock Thursday, announcing a packed legislative program intended to take the U.K. out of the European Union on Jan. 31, overhaul everything from fishing to financial services and shore up the country’s cash-starved public services.

The money going to Fort Detrick will fund a new building at the post, which will house U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity staff, spokeswoman Chelsea Bauckman said.

Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, took the Mars 2020 rover for a spin on Tuesday as preparations continue ahead of its launch in July or August from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The last of four men who tried to force their way into an American family’s home in Landstuhl to rob them was sentenced Thursday under a strict German law that could see him spend the rest of his life in jail.

The National Defense Authorization Act that sets the military budget for 2020 includes a section members of Congress and of the regional Sound Defense Alliance say will require real-time monitoring of jet noise at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington.

George R. Green, 89, died Dec. 5 at his Elwood home and although efforts to locate a family member were unsuccessful, the Elwood community is making sure his passing is remembered.

Signaling in the strongest terms yet that the GOP-controlled Senate will acquit Trump, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky declared that the House impeachment “risks deeply damaging the institutions of American government.”

A defense bill expected to be signed by President Donald Trump calls for reforms after a government investigation found that the rate at which men and some minorities were investigated and tried for crimes was disproportionate with their representation in the military.

A tribute to William Ebeltoft was an eloquent and affectionate telling of the impact of war in one man's life that resonated widely.

Tokyo Olympic organizers and government officials ran a simulation disaster drill on Thursday at the new Ariake venue that will be the site for gymnastics during the Olympics. The threat of quakes and the summer Tokyo heat are the major worries as organizers prepare to open the Olympics on July 24, 2020.

A section of a propeller recovered from the wreckage of the Dec. 6, 2018 collision is included in the new memorial, which was unveiled at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on the first anniversary of the accident.

Kahsai Tyree Hill, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment at Camp Lejeune, N.C., won’t have to serve his prison time unless he commits another crime in Japan within the next five years.

The establishment of the Space Force, a top priority for President Donald Trump, marks the first time in more than 70 years that a new military service has been formed.

The establishment of the Space Force, a top priority for President Donald Trump, marks the first time in more than 70 years that a new military service has been formed.

Troops howled their best Chewbacca impressions as they waited for the latest Star Wars movie, which premiered in a special showing for troops in Afghanistan on Thursday — several hours before service members deployed across the world had a chance to see the film.

Troops howled their best Chewbacca impressions as they waited for the latest Star Wars movie, which premiered in a special showing for troops in Afghanistan on Thursday.

Prosecutors said Francis Engles had veterans sign attendance sheets for classes they did not attend and submitted letters to the department falsely stating that veterans were employed by his private security business.

Organizers for an event planned next year for the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II are searching for veterans who were aboard the USS Missouri where Japan officially surrendered.