Tag: veterans
Doug Collins Says Veterans Affairs Dept. Slashing 80,000 Jobs Is a Goal
Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins said the number of V.A. employees to be cut could change, and accused Democrats of trying to frighten veterans [...]
Have You Left a Keepsake at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall?
Visitors to “the Wall” in Washington, D.C., often leave mementos in honor of friends and family who died during the war. We want to hear your story.
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Veterans’ Groups Object to Trump’s Proposal to Rename Veterans Day
In a social media post, President Trump said he wanted to celebrate victories in the World Wars. But most living veterans would be left out.
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Trump Says He Is Renaming Veterans Day as ‘Victory Day for World War I’
The president said he would also label May 8, known as V-E Day for Victory in Europe, as “Victory Day for World War II,” and vowed to celebrate Americ [...]
Blumenthal Calls ‘Shadow Hearing’ on Trump Veterans Cuts
Doug Collins, the veterans affairs secretary, is unlikely to accept Senator Richard Blumenthal’s invitation to appear on Capitol Hill to discuss the T [...]
Blumenthal Calls ‘Shadow Hearing’ on Trump Veterans Cuts
Doug Collins, the veterans affairs secretary, is unlikely to accept Senator Richard Blumenthal’s invitation to appear on Capitol Hill to discuss the T [...]
Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veteran [...]
Trump Administration Plans to Eliminate More Than 80,000 Veterans Affairs Employees
The job reductions would be a major escalation of the downsizing that has already occurred at the department, which provides health care and many othe [...]
Veterans Are Caught Up in Trump’s and Musk’s Work Force Overhaul
Nearly 30 percent of civil service employees in the federal government are veterans, and Democrats are highlighting their firings by taking some as gu [...]
Pentagon Reaches Settlement With Veterans Dismissed Over Sexuality
The agreement, if approved by a judge, would let former service members upgrade their discharge status and receive benefits they had been denied.
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Biden Honors Police Officers and Veterans With Medals at White House
The president recognized five officers who responded to a 2023 school shooting at a private Christian school in Tennessee, and veterans of the Korean [...]
Veterans get social housing priority in rule change
Getty ImagesArmed forces veterans and their families will get priority access to social housing under new rules published by the government.Councils w [...]
LGBT veterans to get up to £70,000 in gay ban compensation
ANN GANNON/BBCStephen Close lived for three decades as a convicted sex offender before his pardon in 2013LGBT veterans who were dismissed from the arm [...]
‘Starmer, meet us before it’s too late’ say nuclear test veterans
BBCJohn Morris witnessed nuclear tests, lost a son - and wants to meet the PM When 18-year-old John Morris stood for the first time on the Pacific’s C [...]
Biden Honors Veterans in Ceremony at Arlington Cemetery
“This is the last time I will stand here at Arlington as commander in chief,” President Biden said in remembering service members who have served the [...]