Новости за 26.10.2017

Starting next October, the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee chairman hopes to see every veteran who is enrolled in VA health care, and who has used the system in the previous two years, be assigned to a VA primary care physician.

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs said that his annual meeting with senior South Korean military officials will address everything from bolstering ballistic missile defense to fortifying computer networks against cyber-espionage.

Horror fans flock to Universal Studios for the Halloween-themed attractions, which compete with the longer-running Knott’s Scary Farm by taking advantage of licensing opportunities to bring favorite horror movies and TV shows to frightening life.

Talk about spooky: a Halloween-themed tour of New Orleans’ grisly history opens next week and it’s not for the squeamish.

In a Tampa neighborhood fearful over a string of three killings in 11 days, police have hesitated to call the mystery shooter a "serial killer." The city's mayor, however, is not mincing words. "We're going to hunt this son of a b-- down until we catch him," Mayor Bob Buckhorn said.

President Trump could officially declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency during a major speech Thursday, having said in August that he would. It would pave the way for a stronger federal response, partly by opening access to extra money.

The 2nd Infantry Division looked to the future and the past Thursday as it celebrated its centennial with a mass re-enlistment ceremony for 100 soldiers and a time capsule.

Iraqi forces backed by Iranian allied militias began an assault on Thursday to reclaim more Kurdish-held territory, advancing toward a crossing on the Syrian border that provides the only access for U.S. military operations in northern Syria.

Spike in violence has prompted the international aid agency to shut down two of its offices in the northern part of the country and to scale down operations in Mazar-e Sharif — a decision that will affect hundreds of thousands of Afghans who receive aid from the organization in seven northern provinces.

The brutal treatment meted out to North Korea's political prisoners has been well-documented, but a new report coming out Thursday, based on satellite images, portrays the extensive network of "re-education" camps for less severe violations of Pyongyang's penal code.

A train collided with a military vehicle at a railroad crossing in southern Finland early Thursday, killing at least four people, police and military officials said.

Air National Guard personnel and planes are participating in New Zealand’s largest military exercise. Kiwi troops have participated in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and are deployed to the Middle East as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.

Spc. Alexander Missildine was on his first deployment with his unit and just weeks into his deployment when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in northern Iraq on Oct. 1.

The docket allows judges to better understand the issues that a veteran may be struggling with when they return from duty such as substance addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and military sexual trauma.

A couple hundred or so of DODEA-Europe’s top distance runners will take to Rolling Hills Golf Course in Baumholder, Germany, on Saturday for the 2017 DODEA-Europe cross country championship meet.

That’s the refrain emanating from each of the visiting teams in Saturday’s DODEA-Europe Division II football semifinals, which feature the defending champion Rota Admirals visiting the Aviano Saints and the Spangdahlem Sentinels hosting the Naples Wildcats. The winners of those games will advance to the divisional European championship game Nov. 4 at Kaiserslautern, Germany.

The defending champion Ramstein Royals and the archrival Wiesbaden Warriors will wage the latest battle in their ongoing feud Saturday at Ramstein, one of two Division I football semifinals scheduled for that day.

Luke Voth confessed to mixed feelings about his Nile C. Kinnick cross country team retaining its Far East Division I overall school banner.

An air of anticipation hangs over Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan and Korea’s Camp Humphreys because the local high school is venturing into uncharted football territory.

Some have speculated that the presence of three carrier groups in the Pacific is a direct response to North Korean aggression; however, Navy officials told Stars and Stripes Thursday the timing is just a coincidence.

The White House did not officially receive word that three American bodies had been recovered, and one soldier remained missing, until at least eight hours after the attack had begun on the morning of Oct. 4, Washington time.

The coin, which goes on sale next year, is titled “Soldier’s Charge,” and depicts a stone-faced soldier gripping a rifle.

The mother of Charleston Hartfield, a Las Vegas police officer and U.S. Army veteran who was among the 58 people killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, died during the weekend, after his memorial service.

Cuban officials in charge of the investigation in Havana emphatically denied that their government was involved in the attacks and dismissed the idea as “slander.”

As President Donald Trump made his way to a high-dollar GOP fundraiser on Wednesday afternoon, he briefly met with a few local officials to discuss the ongoing recovery efforts following Hurricane Harvey and to strategize on how the state could better prepare for future hurricanes.