Новости за 30.12.2019

A faulty test was used to screen hundreds of Puerto Ricans who applied for Georgia driver’s licenses and identification cards over many years, a new Georgia Bureau of Investigation report shows.

Jim Kelly spent almost three years as an aircraft mechanic at Marana airfield in Arizona before he found out who he was really working for: The CIA.

Erik Prince, a major Republican donor and founder of controversial security firm Blackwater, has been referred to the U.S. Treasury Department for possible sanctions violations tied to his recent trip to Venezuela for a meeting with a top aide of President Nicolas Maduro, two senior U.S. officials said.

American Airlines is moving on from its partnership with veterans charity Airpower Foundation and will no longer host one of the region’s signature fundraisers, the Sky Ball — at least under that name.

Several police officers stormed into a home in North Carolina after the startled homeowners called to report an intruder in the middle of the night. The suspected burglar turned out to be a rogue robot vacuum cleaner.

The U.S. endured everything under the sun during the 2010s. A decade of extreme weather brought powerful beauty, horror amidst destruction and, in some cases, offered glimpses into what the future climate might resemble.

“Don’t overlook available tax credits,” said Gary LeDonne, executive in residence at West Virginia University’s John Chambers College of Business and Economics. “Credits reduce the taxpayer’s liability dollar for dollar.”

Distractions abound in a place more associated with the Seven Deadly Sins than the 14 Stations of the Cross. But Father Charlie has no problem with any of it; in fact, he insists that this implausible place is precisely where he should be.

A new hypersonic nuclear missile that Russia says it has deployed is fueling concerns of a new arms race with the U.S. as the clock ticks down on the expiration of the last treaty limiting the strategic arsenals of the two former Cold War foes.

A man accused of stabbing five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in a rabbi’s house north of New York City has a history of mental illness, his family said, as federal prosecutors added to the charges against him Monday.

Joshua Alley and two medical colleagues were getting ready to watch "The Hangover" at their military hospital in eastern Afghanistan when the loudspeaker blared with the worst possible code: Shamrock Black! Shamrock Black!

2nd Lt. Gur apparently saw a spark in the dark eyes of Garang Buk Buk Piol. He foresaw an end to the long war for independence, and told the boy soldier frequently that the new country would need men who learned and understood subjects other than violence.

Kerrie Hauser, 49, was known as a tireless contributor to her community as a volunteer with the International Owl Center in Houston, Minn., and other causes.

The Whelan siblings have thrust themselves into two byzantine systems half a world apart: American diplomacy and Russian justice. Their brother Paul has been incarcerated for more than a year after his arrest for alleged espionage.

Turkey’s government on Monday submitted a motion to parliament seeking approval to deploy troops to Libya, arguing that the conflict in the North African country could escalate into a civil war and threaten Turkey’s interests.

Pfc. Roger W. Taylor left his family's farm 75 years ago for deployment to Europe during World War II, and never came home. But the dog tags he wore during his 22 months of Army service finally finished their journey back to his home town.

Congress is demanding that the Department of Energy investigate an aging, cracking U.S. nuclear waste dump threatened by climate change and rising seas in the Marshall Islands.

The Japanese government is also considering making use of Mageshima for reducing Okinawa Prefecture's burden of hosting military bases by transferring the training site for Ospreys deployed to the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture to the Kagoshima Prefecture island.

An Iranian-backed militia said Monday that the death toll from U.S. military strikes in Iraq and Syria against its fighters has risen to 25, vowing to exact revenge for the “aggression of evil American ravens.”

The statement said investigations and the arrest of a third person showed the group had been planning an "imminent terrorist operation", and were in possession of 11 pounds of a highly explosive substance, a machine gun, two pistols and live ammunition.

Turkey deported a total of 778 ISIS or other jihadists back to their home countries in 2019, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Sunday.

The court said the three researchers had not obtained qualification as doctors to practice medicine, pursued fame and profits, deliberately violated Chinese regulations on scientific research and crossed an ethical line in both scientific research and medicine.

The Nevada Army Guard said this month Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Hopper is the first guard soldier to receive a religious accommodation approval for a beard.

Maj. Paul Voorhees was convicted of sexually assaulting an enlisted airman in 2015 but had the ruling overturned on appeal. Five counts of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman were upheld.