Shutdown Adding to Vet Appeals Backlog A VA official said the claims backlog was now down 30 percent, but that progress could be lost because of the shutdown.
VA Wants Watchdog Group’s Whistleblower Reports The VA’s Inspector General wants a watchdog group to turn over reports it has from sources blowing the whistle on alleged...
IG Says VA Leaders Enabled Abuses of Health System The VA's inspector general says the VA has a history of ignoring or circumventing policies.
McDonald Lays Out 'Breakthrough Priorities' for VA in 2016 The ambitious commitments were two of a dozen "breakthrough priorities" that McDonald detailed for the Senate Veterans...
Trump Signs Bill to Speed Up VA Disability Appeals Process President Donald Trump signed Wednesday the Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act.
Vet Groups Scramble to Help Vets in VA Furlough Disabled American Veterans service officers began setting up Tuesday in local DAV posts, Department of Veterans Affairs'...
VA Chief Visits Fayetteville Clinic after Audit The Acting VA secretary will be visiting the VA Medical Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to talk about patient...
VA Announces Major Restructuring Ahead of Veterans Day The VA is getting a customer service chief that will drive the agency to be more responsive to veterans' expectations.
Veteran Who Became Face of VA Wait-Times Scandal Dies of Cancer Barry Coates, an Army veteran who detailed his wait for VA healthcare to Congress, died Jan. 23.
Report: VA Biased Against Sexual Trauma Claims Claims granted for PTSD related to sexual trauma were from 17 to 30 percentage points lower than PTSD claims for other trauma...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
