Toxic Exposure Screenings: Vets Report Spotty Follow-Up on Questionnaire Meant to Boost Health Care and Benefits Rolled out with great fanfare in November 2022, toxic exposure screenings for all VA patients were mandated by the PACT Act...
The VA's 2023 Hiring Spree: A Lot of Psychiatrists To handle an influx of new patients, the VA's Veterans Health Administration hired nearly 62,000 new employees in 2023.
Millions of Vets Got Health Care and Benefits Under the PACT Act. Thousands Left Out Want the Same Chance. Legislation passed in 2022 expanded benefits for former troops sickened by burn pits, Agent Orange and contaminated water at...
From Hormones to Horses: How Veterans Are Finally Getting Help for Brain Injuries Premature deaths are not inevitable, and treatment is getting better for service members and veterans with the signature...
Young and Dying: Veterans Are Getting Brain Cancer and Struggling to Get Benefits A joint investigation by Military.com and Public Health Watch found that glioblastoma, while rare, has struck hundreds of...
Blast Pressure Injuries May Affect More Than the Brain of Troops, New Data Shows Data from a live-fire mortar exercise by U.S. Army troops indicates that simply standing near mortars can significantly...
How Trump's Moves to End Protections for Transgender People Could Hurt Veterans Health Care In one of his first moves in office last month, Trump signed an executive order that railed against "ideologues who deny the...
Elon Musk Aide Is Now Working at VA and Accessing Its Computer Systems A VA spokesman said the Department of Government Efficiency employee was given access to find waste and improve operations...
VA Nurses Are in Short Supply. Unions Say Trump's Deferred Resignation Plan Could Make Things Worse Nurses caring for military veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs comprise the largest group of federal...
Thousands of VA Employees Must Return to Their Offices Full Time, Department Says The directive excludes remote workers who may receive an exemption as the result of a disability, medical condition or other...
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...
