VA Declares 300,000 Health Care Jobs Exempt from Ordered Freeze on Federal Hiring VA officials said the exemptions to a Jan. 20 executive order are necessary to provide health care and services to veterans.
VA Secretary Nominee Pledges to Modernize Hospital Infrastructure, Promote Community Care Doug Collins, an Air Force Reserve chaplain and former House member from Georgia, faced some tough questions but appeared to...
Homeless Vets Evacuated from VA Shelters to Avoid LA Fires Return to Uncertain Future LA has been gripped by historic wildfires fueled by seasonal winds since last week, with the blazes destroying 4 square miles...
Republicans in Congress Try Again for Rules Allowing Expedited Firings of VA Employees In one of their first concrete actions of the new congressional session, the chairmen of the committees that oversee the...
The Battle over Veterans’ Health Care: How the Republican Majority Hopes to Reshape the VA With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a...
Homeless Vets and Nursing Home Patients Evacuated from West Los Angeles VA to Escape Wildfires More than 100 mostly homeless veterans were evacuated from temporary shelters on the sprawling grounds of the West Los...
Biden Administration Closing Without Fulfilling Promise to Provide Gender-Affirmation Surgery to Transgender Vets In June 2021, Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough delivered a high-profile speech in which he announced his department...
Several Types of Cancer Now Eligible for Expedited Veterans Affairs Claims The department has added several blood and urinary tract cancers to the list of diseases considered to be related to service...
Biden Signs Wide-Ranging Veterans Bill that Includes Improvements to Veteran Caregiver, Homelessness Programs More support for home caregivers of aging and disabled veterans and bolstered services for homeless veterans are now law...
VA Sets Sights on 2026 for Relaunch of Oracle Cerner Electronic Health Record Rollout The new program's systemwide adoption was paused nearly three years ago over safety and usability challenges.
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...
