Food Assistance Cuts Softened, Veterans Education Benefits Protected in Senate Version of Trump Agenda Bill Two aspects of a sweeping bill to enact President Donald Trump's agenda that alarmed veterans and military family advocates...
Iowa Congresswoman Pushes to Expand Benefits for Vietnam Vets Exposed to Agent Orange Federal legislation signed into law in 2022 expanded VA health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances...
Deep Workforce Cuts at VA, Pentagon Backed by Republican Spending Bills House Republicans are on track to allow job cuts at the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs to proceed in the annual...
Tricking Veterans: Using Suicide and Mental Health Struggles as a Guise for Privatizing the VA While attention remains focused on the looming crisis of Department of Veterans Affairs employees facing termination, an even...
Hegseth, Democrats Tangle over Troop Deployments to Los Angeles Amid the back-and-forth between Hegseth and Democrats at a House Appropriations Committee defense subpanel hearing, the...
Hegseth Faces Congress for First Time since Signal Leaks and Marine Deployment to Los Angeles Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to field sharp questions from members of Congress about his tumultuous start as...
Dropkick Murphys, Lawmakers to Join Veterans in Washington on D-Day to Protect VA Benefits, Federal Jobs The event, which will draw former service members from all 50 states, aims to support the 750,000 workers who formerly wore...
Pentagon Proposes Ending 14 Advisory Panels, Including Historic Committee Focused on Women in the Services As part of a review to determine whether the boards provide value and contribute to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's vision...
Budget for Veterans to See Private Doctors Would See Big Boost in GOP's VA Funding Proposal Overall, the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2026 VA spending bill would give the department about $453 billion -- a...
Navy Plan to Increase Bombing on Hawaii Island Sparks Lawmaker Questions Kaula lies about 23 miles southwest of Niihau and is a nesting ground to about 18 species of birds -- including the black...
Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against Time Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Attorneys for a class-action suit representing 9,000 veterans argued that a legal interpretation limiting retroactive Combat...
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance As President Donald Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops...
ICE Arrests Louisiana Mother of 9-Week-Old, Wife of Marine at Immigration Hearing Since immigration agents detained his wife in New Orleans last month, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran has ferried the couple's 9...
The Marines Are in Los Angeles Around 200 Marines armed with rifles, riot control equipment, gas masks, roughly 20 hours of civil disturbance training and...
Sailor in Custody After Body of Missing Norfolk Seaman Found in Wooded Area A female sailor who went missing from a destroyer based in Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia has been found dead, the Naval...