Новости за 31.12.2019

The U.S. Army has banned military personnel from using the popular video app TikTok on government-issued phones following guidance from the Pentagon and highlighting growing tensions over the app’s Beijing-based parent firm.

The Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday identified the attacker at the West Freeway Church of Christ in the Fort Worth-area town of White Settlement as Keith Thomas Kinnunen, 43. His motive is under investigation.

The Pentagon on Tuesday sent some 100 Marines to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to bolster security after Iraqi Shiite protesters enraged by American airstrikes on Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria breached the compound, U.S. officials said.

The Pentagon on Tuesday sent some 100 Marines to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to bolster security after Iraqi Shiite protesters enraged by American airstrikes on Iran-backed militia in Iraq and Syria breached the compound, U.S. officials said.

A spokesman for the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety said the leader of the regional Anti-Defamation League chapter has agreed to draft the training materials and coursework. He said the agency is “committed to taking all steps necessary to accomplish this.”

Nearly a year after the Trump Organization pledged to root out undocumented workers at its properties, supervisors at the Trump Winery on Monday summoned at least seven employees and fired them because of their lack of legal immigration status, according to two of the dismissed workers.

The stage was set for an increase in tensions as the U.S. missed North Korea’s end-of-year deadline to break the deadlock in nuclear talks on Tuesday amid fears the communist state plans to resume long-range missile tests.

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Monday approved the recommended firings of all correctional officer cadets who participated in a Nazi salute during a class photo, as well as the firing of an academy staff member who failed to report the content of the picture.

Five Greeks, two Filipinos and a Ukrainian were abducted by unidentified assailants from the Greek-flagged tanker "Happy Lady" while the vessel was anchored two nautical miles from Limboh port in Cameroon.

A ProPublica report: Commanders did not act on dozens of pleas for additional manpower, machinery and time. When a training exercise ended in death, leadership blamed the very men they had neglected.

The problem, as industry leaders acknowledge in their quieter moments, is still the same: getting the total cost of owning an EV down to that of a gas equivalent.

Campaign reporting is at its best when we investigate the candidates, their histories and their proposals, and when we talk to voters to learn what they think. We’re at our worst when we make forecasts without warning how fallible we are.

They come from a low-lying Pacific island nation synonymous with U.S. nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War. In part because of that troubled history, one-third of the Marshall Islands’ population now resides in the U.S., where their future is uncertain.

So there you are in the grocery checkout line, kicking yourself for forgetting the reusable bags and wondering why you didn’t just go through the self-checkout. And there they are. The photos. The headlines.

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Over the years, Joe Walsh never missed a single Pearl Harbor Memorial Day service, including the one held earlier this month, just two weeks to the day before he died.

Service members and Defense Department civilians are each slated to receive an average 3.1% bump in annual pay as part of the $737 billion military budget for 2020 — $22 billion more than last year’s defense measure.

Thousands of federal employees should expect debt letters and updated federal income returns in their mailboxes this month that are related to a 2017 tax law change, according to the Defense Finance Accounting Service.

The U.S. and Australia should establish a combined amphibious force including 2,000 Marines and a similar number of sailors based in Darwin, Australia, to build regional support for countering China’s ambitions in the western Pacific, according to a former Marine colonel.

Previously, the tax center provided active-duty service members, their family members and retirees with free tax preparation, electronic filing and tax form distribution for federal and state tax returns.

Anticipating a conflict with the construction of a floating dry dock at Electric Boat’s facility, the Navy is planning to relocate an underwater cable and sensor array in a Connecticut river that is used to analyze and neutralize a ship’s magnetic field.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said 1st Lt. Robert C. Styslinger's remains were among 55 boxes turned over by North Korea in July 2018, after a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In its initial response to the Freedom of Information Act request, on Dec. 10, the Navy noted that "all records pertaining to the investigation of the NAS Pensacola shooting are currently exempt from disclosure because the investigation is still pending."

Lockheed Martin has been under pressure to increase the F-35 program’s efficiency since costs and complications began to raise concern at the start of the decade. The program is expected to cost taxpayers more than $1 trillion over its lifespan.

The name of the Texas town at the center of a church shooting has created controversy as discussions about racial sensitivities have become more common. But residents of White Settlement have long said the name should stick.