On Dec. 7, 1941, 21-year-old Lauren Bruner was the second-to-last man to escape the burning wreckage of the USS Arizona after a Japanese plane dropped a bomb that ignited an enormous explosion in the battleship’s ammunition storage compartment.
Read moreAction Telecom, based in the San Diego suburb Santee, pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of $11 million in federal contracts in a “rent-a-vet” scheme, to get contracts reserved for service-disabled, veteran-owned businesses, federal prosecutors said.
Read moreJust after Veterans Day, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law Tuesday a bill that makes state benefits possible for gay servicemembers whose sexual orientation led to a dishonorable discharge.
Read moreAhead of the Veterans Day holiday, Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren released a new plan to take care of U.S. servicemembers. This plan is personal for her, she said: Three of her brothers served.
Read moreA federal judge granted default judgment of $154,600 to five veterans who claim BAIC Inc. et al. conspired to defraud them and other military veterans in the sale of pension benefits.
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In some paintings, the wounds are plain to see: an arm or leg lost to war. In others, the injuries that U.S. veterans suffered are hidden from view.
Read moreAn Afghanistan war veteran and former law enforcement officer sued Attorney General William Barr, et al., for placing him in a terrorist screening database, claiming he is “some kind of threat to this country,” restricting his travel and work opportunities and not allowing him to confront his accusers, in federal court.
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President Donald Trump is painting a false picture of a U.S. economy unaffected by his trade war with China and other countries, according to many professional economists, businesspeople and farmers.
Read moreState and national experts testified before members of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on Thursday, highlighting strides made to decrease veteran homelessness over the past decade and continued challenges to getting housing vouchers accepted in cities facing housing crises.
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President Donald Trump signed an order Wednesday canceling the federal student loan debt of thousands of permanently disabled veterans after addressing the 75th annual AMVETS convention in Kentucky.
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For those who blow the whistle on wrongdoing at the Department of Veterans Affairs but find themselves running headlong into a snarl of setbacks and retaliation, relief could soon be on the way, according to the head of the Trump administration’s veterans affairs whistleblower protection office.
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The Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly confirmed military veteran and Army Secretary Mark Esper as secretary of defense, giving the Department of Defense a Senate-confirmed leader for the first time in seven months.
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Amy McGrath, a Marine combat aviator who narrowly lost a House race to an incumbent Republican in Kentucky, has set her sights on an even more formidable target: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Read moreThe U.S. embassy in Moscow said Monday that the Russian government has denied its request to let a doctor examine a former U.S. Marine being held in Russia on spying charges.
Read moreSparing a 90-year-old cross that rises above an intersection just across the Maryland border with Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court rejected claims that the war memorial violates the establishment clause.
Read moreWorld leaders including Queen Elizabeth II and President Donald Trump gathered Wednesday on the south coast of England to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. But the stars of the show were the elderly veterans of that campaign who said they were surprised by all the attention: They were just doing their jobs.
Read moreThey are back, some for the first time since war stole their innocence 75 years ago on Normandy’s D-Day beaches.
Read morePresident Trump is making up facts about a veterans’ health care program in his latest dig at late Sen. John McCain. He says he’s no fan of McCain, a Vietnam War veteran and tortured prisoner of war, faulting him for failing to pass a program that gave veterans the option to see a private doctor at public expense–though McCain did successfully sponsor such a law.
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