Новости за 15.08.2016

Nationally, public support for letting veterans and others use marijuana for PTSD has been mounting. There are few studies on its effectiveness, but a Phoenix doctor is preparing to recruit volunteers with PTSD to smoke two joints daily at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Scottsdale Research Institute in Phoenix in the next few months as part of a $2.2 million research project.

The pain earned Irina Ilyukhina the title of "tastiest girl" in a contest that would cause great anxiety in many parts of the world, but has become a staple of the Russian Mosquito Festival each summer, reported the Associated Press. Her prize was a ceramic cup.

As June’s high school graduates prepare to leave this month to begin their college educations, many face the challenge of how to pay for that higher education without incurring mounds of student loan debt.

In his final letter to his parents, penned in level lines of looping but unhurried script, 20-year-old Navy Ensign John Charles England apologized for not writing more often and said he'd be thinking of home on Christmas.

Bill Kingsbery flew his fighter plane over the Panama Canal region for 15 months to make sure Japan didn’t try to correct its strategic mistake of bombing Pearl Harbor.

One Missouri couple is promoting music as a way to help military veterans cope with Post Traumatic Stress through a nonprofit organization they founded called The Healing Box Project.

Michael Johns is young and idealistic and holds strong views about this country, so he realizes that some of his fellow countrymen might not have understood his motives Friday for burning the American flag.

Re-Boot Camp is a program designed for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and includes treatments such integrated breathing and movement, brainwave optimization and equine assisted activities.

Years before he was executive chef at one of the most chic dining spots in Downtown Madison, Michael Pruett was on duty in the woods with the Wisconsin National Guard, devouring spaghetti from a plastic pouch.

A sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush was arraigned in military court Monday on charges that he raped and attempted to murder a fellow sailor in Portsmouth by holding a pillow over her face, strangling her with his hands and banging her head against the floor.

In campaign appearances for Donald Trump, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn has cast the presidential race as a continuation of the career he spent battling dangerous enemies in distant wars.

When it comes to hacking, the most dangerous thing at most companies may not be their computer network but the lowly desk telephone.

A female Marine Corps officer was dropped from infantry training last month after failing the course for a second time since all military jobs were opened to women, a Marine spokesman said Monday.

A sailor who pleaded guilty to photographing classified submarine systems hopes to receive leniency by comparing his case to Hillary Clinton’s ongoing e-mail controversy, his lawyers said in a court document.

On Thursday and Friday, 11 more bombs rattled seven Thai provinces, killing four people and wounding dozens more. But this time was different: the targets were not in the country's three southernmost provinces, where a bitter war waged by Muslim separatists has flared for more than a decade.

An investigation by ProPublica and The Washington Post finds that Secretary of State Clinton initially pressed to keep civilian programs and listening posts after the U.S. troop pullout in 2011, but then her State Department scrapped or slashed them at the behest of the White House and Congress.

The U.S. has invested heavily in new family detention centers designed as deterrents for female and child asylum seekers. But the prospect of detention has so far failed to change the calculus for most migrant Central Americans, who ultimately decide to leave because of acute fears about safety in what are the Western Hemisphere's most violent places.

Russia's defense minister said Monday that Moscow and Washington are edging closer to an agreement that would help defuse the situation in the besieged Syrian city Aleppo.

Veterans groups say Donald Trump has nailed the issues facing the Department of Veterans Affairs. Stars and Stripes looks at key proposals in the Republican presidential nominee's 10-point plan to fix the VA.

The mother of a kidnapped Chibok schoolgirl appealed Monday for Nigeria's president to free detained Boko Haram militants in exchange for the more than 200 girls held captive, as the Islamic extremists have offered.

An airstrike hit a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders in northern Yemen on Monday, the international aid group said, killing and wounding an unknown number of people.

Does Stars and Stripes have an agenda? Is it a liberal newspaper? Is management advocating for Hillary Clinton?

American tanks and soldiers joined an annual military parade in Warsaw on Monday, a symbolic show of U.S. military involvement in a region shaken by a more assertive Russia.

When journalist Guy Lawson sold the movie rights to his 2011 Rolling Stone article about two Miami Beach stoners who landed a $300 million contract with the Pentagon, he envisioned the resulting film would be a serious expose.

If you're content with slick, cynically commercial computer-animated froth, stick with "Ice Age: Collision Course." But if you want moving and artful cartoon adventures, look to the French, whose delightful, hand-drawn features include "Persepolis," "The Illusionist," "Tales of the Night," and -- one of my favorites -- the Oscar-nominated crime adventure "A Cat in Paris" from Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol.