State 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.
Read moreThe White House wanted the U.S. Navy to keep a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain out of President Trump’s view during his trip to Japan, three U.S. officials said.
Read moreBoastful on Memorial Day, President Trump and his Veterans Affairs secretary are claiming credit for health care improvements that were under way before they took office.
Read moreA Russian court on Friday extended the arrest for a former U.S. Marine charged with espionage, who complained in court about abuse in custody.
Read moreA military veteran sued Hoffman-LaRoche and Genentech, claiming their malaria drug Lariam made “thousands of our nation’s veterans severely and permanently sick,” in San Mateo County Court.
Read moreCongresswomen who have performed military service, some of them in post-Sept. 11 wars, are hoping to create their own caucus to drive an agenda to support the nation’s growing ranks of female service members.
Read moreA security guard credited with capturing one of the two suspects in this week’s suburban Denver school shooting fired his weapon inside the school, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Read moreA former U.S. Army infantryman wanted to set off a pressure cooker bomb with shrapnel at a political rally in Southern California over the weekend, but he turned to the wrong person for help: an undercover source working for the FBI, federal prosecutors said Monday.
Read morePolice say a driver who veered into a crosswalk and injured eight pedestrians in California did not say why he did it but indicated the act was intentional.
Read moreMJ Hegar, the Air Force combat veteran who nearly unseated a Texas Republican congressman in last year’s midterms, announced Tuesday that she will challenge U.S. Senator John Cornyn in 2020.
Read moreMost Americans from both major political parties want the government to boost federal spending on education, veterans’ benefits and infrastructure, but that call for more spending comes during a period of historically low trust in the federal government, the Pew Research Center reported Thursday.
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