VA Secretary Nominee Pledges to Modernize Hospital Infrastructure, Promote Community Care Doug Collins, an Air Force Reserve chaplain and former House member from Georgia, faced some tough questions but appeared to...
Homeless Vets Evacuated from VA Shelters to Avoid LA Fires Return to Uncertain Future LA has been gripped by historic wildfires fueled by seasonal winds since last week, with the blazes destroying 4 square miles...
Republicans in Congress Try Again for Rules Allowing Expedited Firings of VA Employees In one of their first concrete actions of the new congressional session, the chairmen of the committees that oversee the...
Veterans Can Now Tell Their Own Stories on the VA's Veterans Memorial Website The website features the names of millions of veterans buried in VA cemeteries and military-run sites, as well as those...
The Battle over Veterans’ Health Care: How the Republican Majority Hopes to Reshape the VA With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a...
Widow of Air Force Missileer Who Died of Cancer Secures VA Benefits After Yearslong Fight The widow of an Air Force missileer who died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma has finally secured Department of Veterans Affairs...
Homeless Vets and Nursing Home Patients Evacuated from West Los Angeles VA to Escape Wildfires More than 100 mostly homeless veterans were evacuated from temporary shelters on the sprawling grounds of the West Los...
Biden Administration Closing Without Fulfilling Promise to Provide Gender-Affirmation Surgery to Transgender Vets In June 2021, Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough delivered a high-profile speech in which he announced his department...
Several Types of Cancer Now Eligible for Expedited Veterans Affairs Claims The department has added several blood and urinary tract cancers to the list of diseases considered to be related to service...
Congress Needs to Support the VA and Firearms Industry's Partnership to Prevent Veterans' Suicides Last month, House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., sent a searing letter to Veterans Affairs...
Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point The reinstallation marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to reverse the work of a congressionally mandated...
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
All Services Now Issue Form DD214-1 to Departing Reservists The military's reserve components now issue departing reservists a new record that summarizes their periods of active and...
From Jackson to McKinley: What Trump's Shift of Presidential Hero Says About His Evolving Goals Trump's shift, rather than merely swapping one infatuation for another, demonstrates how his mindset and priorities have...
Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Naval Aviator and Corrupt Appropriator, Dies at 83 Cunningham, a California Republican, joined the Navy at age 25 and during the Vietnam War became the first “ace,” an honor...
