Veterans Are Filing More Claims for Service-Related Sexual Assault, VA Officials Say An outreach effort has led to an increase in claims filed for military sexual trauma in the past several years, according to...
VA Health System Remains on Federal 'High Risk' List Due to Oversight Shortfalls The VA medical system has been a concern to government auditors for the past decade but has seen vast improvements, according...
Thousands More Could Be Eligible for VA Family Caregiver Program Under Proposed Overhaul The program required a review following a lawsuit, as well as eligibility changes instituted in 2021 that would have...
Dust to Dust: VA Now Offers 'Green' Burials at Cemeteries in Arizona, Colorado and Florida The new benefit lets veterans and family members consider environmentally friendly preparations, urns or caskets when...
House GOP Introduces Legislation to Solidify Veterans' Access to Community Care Democrats say the effort to expand community care undermines medical treatment for veterans by sending them to overburdened...
VA Funds Ivy League Research into MDMA as Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress, Alcohol Abuse The research, some of it already underway, is the first of its kind at the VA in more than 50 years.
Court-Mandated Plan Forcing the VA to House 3,000 Homeless Vets in Los Angeles on Hold In a bitter statement responding to the 9th Circuit's grant of the stay one of the pro-bono lawyers representing the homeless...
Medications, Including Injectable Weight-Loss Drugs, Make Up One-Third of VA's Projected 2025 Budget Shortfall Under Secretary for Health Dr. Shereef Elnahal said Monday the VA needs extra funding to cover the costs of drugs such as...
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...
