Promoting Safe Storage of Firearms Can Sway Service Members, Vets, Study Finds The crafting of the message counts, finds new Pentagon-funded research.
VA '100%' Confident in Suicide Data After Outside Report Argued Agency Underestimates Rate At issue is an analysis by America's Warrior Partnership, a suicide prevention group, that said the veterans suicide rate may...
Is Your Military Teen at Risk for Suicide? A mother whose son tried to commit suicide shares her experience to try to help other families with teens.
VA Selects 30 Programs for Suicide Prevention Competition From apps to extended reality, the innovative programs selected for the next phase of Mission Daybreak offer solutions for...
Group Tries to Overload VA Crisis Line to Protest Prosecutions of Capitol Rioters VA officials said that service continued throughout the day and every veteran who called was assisted, but some said the line...
VA Says Veteran Suicides Continue to Fall, But Outside Researchers Find Rates May Be Much Higher A new VA report says suicides have dropped by nearly 10% since 2018, but another study, released last weekend, challenges...
LGBTQ Military Kids Attempted Suicide at Much Higher Rate Than Their Civilian Peers, New Research Finds Those who said they receive family support, however, had lower rates of anxiety, depression and attempted suicide, according...
Former VA Secretaries Push for National Day of Recognition to Prevent Veteran Suicides For the second straight year, the seven former VA secretaries are pressing to designate the Sunday after Veterans Day as...
Suicides Among US Troops Rose 15% in 2020, With Firearms Closely Tied to Deaths Pentagon officials claimed, however, that compared to previous years, the increase is not statistically significant.
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...
