VA ordered to provide hundreds of additional shelter beds, build nearly 2,000 housing units for homeless veterans in LA
The Department of Veterans Affairs must establish hundreds of additional shelter beds within 18 months and build another 1,800 units of subsidized apartments by 2030 after a federal court ruled the agency has failed to comply with an agreement to develop a Los Angeles campus with housing for disabled homeless veterans.
Vietnam veteran honoring WWII women pilots with 26-day bike ride
Biking for 26 days and nearly 900 miles, Vietnam veteran Larry Ritland is embarking on the ride of a lifetime.
Bobby Body seeks to recruit fellow veterans to para powerlifting after fourth place in Paris
Army veteran who was medically discharged after a knee injury turned to powerlifting in 2014 after a therapist told him to work out his aggression.
‘Take her down!’ WWII submarine skipper sacrificed with final order
Shot and clinging to the boat's bridge frame, submarine commander Howard W. Gilmore's gave his final order.
Veterans groups, lawmakers call on Supreme Court to hear Air Force vet’s suit on military medical malpractice
The Feres Doctrine has been used to prevent military medical malpractice lawsuits since 1950 and has even limited the ability of people to bring military rape cases to civil courts. Nearly two dozen veterans advocacy groups want to change that.
Senators push $15M bill to study birth defects in children of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals
The generational effects of chemical warfare agents and other hazardous materials on the descendants of service members would be evaluated under a bill to fund $15 million in research on birth defects identified in the children and grandchildren of toxic-exposed veterans.