VA to End Medical Research on Primates as Animal Rights Group Cheers the Move The department has pledged it will meet an end-of-the-year deadline early for halting spinal cord injury research that used...
Ask Lacey: Is Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay Taxed? Concurrent Retirement and Disability Pay (CRDP) can be hard to wrap your head around, especially when it comes to taxes and...
Trump Nominates Army Veteran, VA Adviser as Under Secretary for Benefits The White House also has forwarded a nomination to serve as the department's chief information officer.
Who's Winning the Multibillion-Dollar Battle over Veterans Benefits? With lobbying and lawsuits, for-profit companies scored two recent victories in the courts and on Capitol Hill.
VA Changes Discrimination Policy for Health Care Staff, Denies Doctors Could Withhold Treatment The department said the change was made in order to comply with executive orders and the updates would "have no impact...
A Navy Veteran Is Determined to Find His Own Way Through PTSD—Without VA Each appointment with VA was another nail sealing the coffin shut, suffocating any hope that they could help me.
Marines Temporarily Detain Man While Guarding LA Federal Building Marcos Leao, a former Army combat engineer, said he was rushing to get to a Veterans Affairs appointment when he stepped past...
Deep Workforce Cuts at VA, Pentagon Backed by Republican Spending Bills House Republicans are on track to allow job cuts at the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs to proceed in the annual...
As National Guard Arrived in Los Angeles, VA Docs Scrambled to Make Sure Veteran Patients Received Care VA doctors and staff worked Sunday to help vulnerable patients -- especially those with mental health conditions or substance...
'You Deserve Better': Veterans Rally on National Mall Against Trump Cuts Thousands of veterans gathered and raised their fists to the rhythm of the punk rock band Dropkick Murphys on Washington, D.C...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
