1+ hour, 30+ min ago   (794+ words) Service members sickened by hazardous exposures at the Pentagon on 9/11, as well as some exposed to radiation while serving " without related documentation " would be eligible for broader access to Veterans Affairs benefits under several bills being considered by Congress. A…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (390+ words) Certain state veterans cemeteries across the country received a near total of $80 million in grants in fiscal 2025 for their improvement from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, officials recently announced. The department granted 20 state veterans cemeteries over $77 million in fiscal 2025 for…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (669+ words) DeBlanc entered U.S. Navy flight training in July 1941, then transferred to the Marine Corps upon completion. Commissioned a second lieutenant on April 3, 1942, and rated a naval aviator on May 4, he joined Marine fighter squadron VMF-112 10 days before it shipped overseas " just…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (625+ words) President Donald Trump said he's dropping " for now " his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks held up the effort. "We will come back, perhaps in a…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (508+ words) A federal appeals court this week upheld a federal district court ruling ordering the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically expand housing for unhoused, disabled veterans on its West Los Angeles campus. In a decision filed Dec. 23, a three-judge panel…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (606+ words) President Donald Trump is traveling to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert that is testing the rapprochement between Washington…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (382+ words) SANTA FE, N.M. " The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern U.S. border to support border security operations " this time in California. The Department of Interior on Wednesday said it would transfer jurisdiction along most of California's international border…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (465+ words) The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1764+ words) Helping veterans get through the red tape of applying for VA disability benefits has become a multibillion-dollar industry over the past decade. Which might be surprising, because charging vets for such help may be against federal law. An investigation by…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (670+ words) Normally on Veterans Day, volunteers gather at the Riverside National Cemetery in California to place flags alongside more than 300,000 gravesites. But not this year. The longest federal government shutdown on record is curtailing and outright canceling parades, ceremonies and other…...