Local bars and halls run by VFW and American Legion posts — those community staples where vets commiserate over beers and people celebrate weddings and other milestones — were already struggling when the pandemic hit. After years of declining membership, restrictions meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 became a death blow for many.
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Newly filed court documents reveal FBI suspicions that a U.S. citizen freed in a much-vaunted prisoner swap with Iran had traveled there with the aim to sell classified secrets.
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Capt. Tom Moore, the World War II veteran who walked into the hearts of a nation in lockdown as he shuffled up and down his garden to raise money for health care workers, has died after testing positive for Covid-19. He was 100.
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A 33-year-old California Army veteran identified by an Instagram account as one of the insurrectionists at the Capitol riot faces charges of removing police barricades to enter the Capitol building.
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The U.S. Veterans Administration must honor the terms of a 1991 settlement and pay retroactive benefits to thousands of Navy veterans who served on ships off Vietnam’s coast for Agent Orange-related health problems, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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In the wake of polls showing declining support for President Trump among soldiers and veterans, two anti-Trump groups have released an ad suggesting that Trump is unfit to command women in the military.
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A group of Republican “Never Trumpers” took their message to military media outlets, including Stars & Stripes, on Tuesday, making the case that President Donald Trump disrespects veterans and is unfit for office.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs used flawed radiation data to deny disability benefits to veterans who responded to a 1966 plane accident involving U.S. hydrogen bombs in Spain, Yale Law School students told a federal appeals court Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge in Minneapolis dismissed the Satanic Temple’s free exercise claims seeking to hold a mayor and city council members liable for rescinding a city ordinance creating a space in a park to erect monuments intended to honor veterans.
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Big gaps in federal oversight of long-term care facilities for aging veterans may have contributed to rampant coronavirus infections and more than 200 deaths at state-run homes, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Read moreA federal judge in Florida denied 3M’s invocation of the government contractor defense in a product liability suit filed by veterans who claim they suffered permanent hearing loss due to the company’s allegedly defective combat earplugs.
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They didn’t like it when candidate Donald Trump criticized John McCain for being captured in combat. They were angrier when Trump, as commander in chief, abandoned Kurdish allies in the Middle East. And they were upset again in June when he threatened to deploy troops against American protesters.
Read moreBritain organized a flyover and 140,000 people sent cards to mark the 100th birthday on Thursday of a World War II veteran whose staggering fundraising efforts have inspired a country in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nearly 70 residents have died of coronavirus at a Massachusetts home for aging veterans, as state and federal officials try to figure out what went wrong in the deadliest known outbreak at a long-term care facility in the nation.
Read moreA federal court in New York granted summary judgment to a genealogical activist group, ordering the release of death files from the Department of Veterans Affairs database in a dispute brought after Ancestry.com posted information provided to it by the Veterans Health Administration, which had erroneously included 5,223 living veterans among the 14.4 million records of purportedly deceased veterans.
Read moreA Marine veteran who posted on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Facebook page that he would “pay an ISIS terrorist with a nuke” to “burn the v.a. at 10 million degrees Fahrenheit,” was properly convicted of terroristic threatening, an appeals court in Arkansas ruled, finding that it was reasonable for the VA to take the statement and other parts of the post as a true threat.
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The spotlight on brain injuries suffered by U.S. troops in Iraq this month is an example of America’s episodic attention to this invisible war wound, which has affected hundreds of thousands over the past two decades but is not yet fully understood.
Read moreA one-day sentence for a defendant convicted on child pornography charges was unreasonable, the Sixth Circuit ruled, even though the man had been diagnosed with PTSD after serving tours of duty in the military and lacked a criminal record. He possessed more than 3,600 images and 230 videos of child pornography.
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