Veterans File Class-Action Suit over Medical Retirements for Burn Pit-Related Illnesses The retired service members say the Army's refusal to call illnesses linked to exposure to burn pits "combat-related"...
VA Backtracks on Budget Shortfall Warning, Angering Lawmakers Who Vow an Investigation In a memo to lawmakers, VA officials said costs have been lower than expected, but that some of the things the department has...
K2 Veterans with Certain Types of Cancer May Soon Qualify for Expedited VA Disability Claims The Department of Veterans Affairs has started the process to add bladder, urethral cancer and other genitourinary cancers to...
Alabama Governor Dismisses Head of Department of Veterans Affairs After Agency Board Refuses Gov. Kay Ivey says she is using her authority to remove the leader of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs
Harris Endorses Proposal to Expedite Veterans Benefits for PFAS-Related Illnesses Harris endorsed a bill introduced last year by congressional Democrats that would designate several health conditions as...
Supreme Court Weighs Arguments in Lawsuit over Veterans Getting 'Benefit of Doubt' in Claims Decisions The Supreme Court must decide what Congress meant when it clarified a law that required the Court of Veterans Appeals to...
Two Veterans Will Argue to Supreme Court that VA Disability Claims Aren't Getting 'Benefit of Doubt' The case Bufkin v. McDonough goes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday and could affect thousands of claims.
Lawmakers Looking to Make VA Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm that Favored Men The Department of Veterans Affairs would be forced to overhaul an artificial intelligence program that helps direct suicide...
VA Transfers Patients, Closes Facilities Ahead of Hurricane Milton Making Landfall in Florida The massive storm, targeting much of Florida's southwestern Gulf Coast, is expected to make landfall late Wednesday.
Some Veterans with Other-than-Honorable Discharges Would Get Legal Aid Under Proposed VA Program The new program would provide money to legal clinics and local governments to provide free services to veterans who can't...
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...