Transgender, Nonbinary Veterans Can Now Include Gender Identity in Health Records Knowing a veteran's gender identity can help health care providers better understand their patients' needs.
VA Wants to Waive Some Copays for Vets at High Risk for Suicide VA officials hope the measures will encourage veterans to pursue medical care and stick with treatment.
VA Home Loan Program That Is Popular Among Veterans Gets a Bad Rep from Sellers Dispelling myths about the program is crucial, lawmakers and advocates say.
Law Aimed at Helping Millions Exposed to Burn Pits and Toxins Would Cost at Least $282 Billion Bills introduced in Congress that would broaden eligibility for VA medical care and disability benefits would top $200...
While Americans See an End to 20 Years of War, VA's Job Has Just Begun "Some fear the antagonistic relationship between VA and veterans will continue as advocates are forced to fight bureaucracy...
Racial Disparities in VA Benefits Advocates Say Are Rampant Set to Get Watchdog Probe The racial disparities bill comes after the Black Veterans Project pushed the VA to release data on racial disparities in its...
After Deadline, VA and DoD Middle of the Pack for COVID-19 Vaccinations, White House Says The latest figures show, however, that tens of thousands still need the shots or waivers based on religious exemptions or...
VA Gets $5 Billion Boost to Fix Problems in House Social Spending Bill The biggest cut for the VA funding came from the money to update aging infrastructure, which was originally proposed at $15.2...
Ruling on Burn Pit Link to Cancers and a Rare Lung Disease Coming from VA Next Year VA Secretary Denis McDonough said if a link is established, veterans could begin applying for benefits by the end of 2022.
50,000 Extra VA Patients Died in 2020 Compared to Normal, Study Finds Excess patient deaths at VA in 2020 show a larger pandemic toll, yet the increase was lower than in the general U.S...
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Bribery Plot Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, was commanding its forces in Europe and...
Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a...
Black Vietnam Veteran’s Story Reveals War’s Harsh Realities 50 Years Later It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to...
Trump Says US Forces Sank Third Suspected Drug Boat off Venezuela President Donald Trump did not say how many people were killed in the third strike.
!["Equality flags" in support of transgender members of military.](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2021-06/AP-equality-flags-transgender-1800.jpg?itok=YjCPnWpD "In this July 26, 2017 photo, people with the Human Rights Campaign hold up "equality flags" during an event on Capitol Hill in Washington, in support of transgender members of the military (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)")
![President Biden signs VA racial disparity study bill](http://images01.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2021-11/ApNewsroom_Biden_63500.jpg?itok=dSu88Uhr "President Biden signs "A bill to require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study on disparities associated with race and ethnicity with respect to certain benefits administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes," into law during a ceremony at the White House, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)")
