VA Union Issues, Not Claims Backlog, Dominate Debate at Hearing The debate at a House hearing last week concerned union business on official time at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Shutdown Adding to Vet Appeals Backlog A VA official said the claims backlog was now down 30 percent, but that progress could be lost because of the shutdown.
VA Wants Watchdog Group’s Whistleblower Reports The VA’s Inspector General wants a watchdog group to turn over reports it has from sources blowing the whistle on alleged...
IG Says VA Leaders Enabled Abuses of Health System The VA's inspector general says the VA has a history of ignoring or circumventing policies.
VA 'Presumption' Regulation Could Help Up to 15K Lejeune Vets The Department of Veterans Affairs expects up to 15,000 seriously ill veterans who served at Camp Lejeune, N.C., before 1988.
VA to Begin Processing Camp Lejeune Toxic Water Claims The compensation process was cleared when the White House exempted it from a presidential order blocking new federal...
Vet Groups Scramble to Help Vets in VA Furlough Disabled American Veterans service officers began setting up Tuesday in local DAV posts, Department of Veterans Affairs'...
VA Chief Visits Fayetteville Clinic after Audit The Acting VA secretary will be visiting the VA Medical Center in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to talk about patient...
VA Announces Major Restructuring Ahead of Veterans Day The VA is getting a customer service chief that will drive the agency to be more responsive to veterans' expectations.
McDonald Lays Out 'Breakthrough Priorities' for VA in 2016 The ambitious commitments were two of a dozen "breakthrough priorities" that McDonald detailed for the Senate Veterans...
Trump Gives DoD ‘Secondary’ Name as Department of War, Circumventing Congress President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving the Department of Defense the “secondary name” of the Department of...
Pilot and Influencer Ethan Guo Released from Antarctic Air Base After 2 Months After Ethan Guo landed in Chile's Antarctic territory on June 28, he was detained in a military base amid legal negotiations...
F-35s Will Be Deployed Against Drug Cartels in Caribbean, Marking Latest Escalation by Trump President Donald Trump’s administration is sending multiple F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico in operations against drug...
Trump's Veterans Housing Plan in West LA Advances Behind a Wall of Secrecy President Trump's executive order calling for a National Center for Warrior Independence to house thousands of veterans in...
In One DC Neighborhood After Federal Intervention, the Notion of More Authority Is a Mixed Bag People would like more law enforcement resources, but they distrust the motives behind the surge.