VA Extends Deadline for Changes to Caregiver Program, Giving Longtime Recipients a Reprieve The department said the new deadline will be 2028, after previously pausing dismissals from the program through Sept. 30...
Senate's VA Spending Bill Seeks Assurance Staff Cuts Won't Hinder Veterans' Care The language in the Senate's version of the fiscal 2026 VA appropriations bill offers a mild, but notable bipartisan rebuke...
The New VA Budget Pushes to Privatize Care, Risking the Veterans Health System "We are watching the slow dismantling of the VA from the inside out, buried in a budget document. If left unchecked, this...
Veteran Dies by Suicide at VA Syracuse Medical Center Parking Garage A witness said the veteran wore a nearly full-length banner associated with transgender rights.
Troops, Veterans Advocates Want to See the PACT Act Better Track Toxic Exposures The discussion brought together more than a dozen veterans service organizations and other advocacy groups for them to tell...
Plans for Mass VA Firings Scuttled, But Department Still Expects 30,000 Employees to Leave on Their Own The announcement walked back previous plans, first revealed in a leaked memo in March, to fire as many as 83,000 employees as...
'Complex' Veterans Crisis Line Calls Passed Off to Undertrained Responders, Watchdog Report Finds In response to the GAO findings, the VA promised to assess the outcomes of calls to the complex unit compared to the main...
Here's How to Maximize VA Benefits over Your Lifetime VA benefits can play a critical role in a veteran's financial plan. Here's a three-tiered look at how to make the most of...
Do They or Don't They? Secretary Won't Say Whether VA DOGE Employees Have Access to Medical Records When questioned by Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff about DOGE activities at the VA, the secretary said three employees are...
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...
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...
