Native American, Alaska Native Veterans Saved $2.5 Million in Medical Costs Under New VA Waiver Program The exemption covers copays for VA medical appointments, urgent care visits and prescriptions.
Unequal Treatment of Black, Minority Veterans Triggers New VA Plan to Weed Out Disparities The move aligns with the White House's effort to ensure that all eligible Americans have access to federal services and...
VA Plans to Expand Agent Orange Disability Benefits to Cover Exposure in a Dozen New States In a proposed rule in the Federal Register, the VA said it will now grant presumptive status to veterans with Agent Orange...
Survey: More than Half of US Veterans Who Own Guns Store Them Unsafely A new survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders finds that, although the number of veterans storing firearms...
Is VA Paying for Migrant Health Care? The Agency Says 'No' Despite Wave of Political Attacks. Lawmakers and some media outlets say that an agreement between the VA and the Department of Homeland Security shortchanges...
VA to Fund Research on Using MDMA, Psilocybin to Address Mental Health Disorders in Veterans The Department of Veterans Affairs is soliciting applications from researchers to study the use of MDMA, psilocybin and other...
Who Is Eligible for Hearing Aids from VA? VA will provide hearing aids to veterans with service connected hearing loss
Congress, DoD Should Shore Up Financially Troubled Armed Forces Retirement Home, Watchdog Says Populations of the federal homes in Washington, D.C., and Gulfport, Mississippi, have declined as expenses have risen...
VA Makes Pitch for More Money to Counter 7.4% Rise in Homeless Veterans Living on the Streets or in Shelters The VA announced its intention to devote "hundreds of millions" to assist veterans sleeping in shelters or living on the...
'Slap in the Face': Victims of Trinity Test Radiation Say Congress Again Let Them Down by Denying Compensation New Mexico was ground zero for the first atom bomb explosion, but the "downwinder" farmers and ranchers living near the...
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-40-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...