Wreaths Across America: Honoring Fallen Service Members It happens each December: Volunteers and others place live wreaths on veterans’ gravesites in what has become a holiday...
National Memorial Day Parade Hosted by the American Veterans Center, the National Memorial Day Parade returns along Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C...
VA Shuffles Money from Canceled Contracts While Keeping Congress Mostly in the Dark The Department of Veterans Affairs is starting to move money from canceled contracts to other accounts even as it has yet to...
Veterans' VA Referrals to Private Medical Care Will No Longer Require Additional Doctor Review The VA announced that it is enacting a provision of the Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits...
Veterans Mortgage Assistance Plan Approved by House After VA Ends Rescue Program Veterans struggling to pay their mortgages could get help under a plan approved by the House to replace a mortgage rescue...
VA to Expand Online Memorial Website to Include Veterans Buried Overseas The number of pages in the Veterans Legacy Memorial database now tops more than 10 million.
The Fashion Designer Who Became a Lethal Spy Chief During World War II By the time Hardy Amies linked up with the SOE, he was already a well-known staple of Britain’s fashion industry.
Did Slate Just Drop the Hottest Technical of the Century? Slate’s electric work truck can transform into an SUV in your driveway, charge from any outlet and it’s assembled right here...
Army Veteran and 'Walking Tall' Actor Joe Don Baker Dies at 89 Baker, a former Texas football player who served two years in the U.S. Army before making his television debut, died on May 7...
Decorated Australian Veteran Loses His Defamation Appeal over Killings in Afghanistan Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, lost his appeal of a civil court ruling that blamed him for...
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...