After Supreme Court Victory, Some Veterans to Receive Additional Months of GI Bill Eligibility The Department of Veterans Affairs announced the change in response to a U.S. Supreme Court decision in April favoring a...
Biden Signs Wide-Ranging Veterans Bill that Includes Improvements to Veteran Caregiver, Homelessness Programs More support for home caregivers of aging and disabled veterans and bolstered services for homeless veterans are now law...
VA Sets Sights on 2026 for Relaunch of Oracle Cerner Electronic Health Record Rollout The new program's systemwide adoption was paused nearly three years ago over safety and usability challenges.
Here's Where Trump's Pentagon and National Security Nominees Stand Ahead of New Year President-elect Donald Trump's nominees to lead the Pentagon and other key national security and veterans agencies face a...
Veteran Suicides Are Down Since 2018 But Remain Persistently Steady, New VA Report Finds Data released shows that 17.6 veterans died by suicide each day in 2022, roughly the same number as those who took their own...
VA Review Finds Underused Therapists and Misused Scheduling for Mental Health Care at Georgia Clinic An investigation into mental health services at the Hinesville, Georgia, VA clinic found that a program designed to let...
Veterans Are Filing More Claims for Service-Related Sexual Assault, VA Officials Say An outreach effort has led to an increase in claims filed for military sexual trauma in the past several years, according to...
VA Health System Remains on Federal 'High Risk' List Due to Oversight Shortfalls The VA medical system has been a concern to government auditors for the past decade but has seen vast improvements, according...
Thousands More Could Be Eligible for VA Family Caregiver Program Under Proposed Overhaul The program required a review following a lawsuit, as well as eligibility changes instituted in 2021 that would have...
Dust to Dust: VA Now Offers 'Green' Burials at Cemeteries in Arizona, Colorado and Florida The new benefit lets veterans and family members consider environmentally friendly preparations, urns or caskets when...
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...