Tag: veterans
LGBT veterans memorial: ‘We're not a dirty secret’
The memorial will end decades of feeling “swept under the rug", campaigners say.
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Transgender Veterans Sue V.A. Over Gender-Affirming Surgeries
The lawsuit, brought by the Transgender American Veterans Association, said the Veteran Affairs department’s decision not to offer the procedures was [...]
Solana Veterans Raise $17M For ‘Backpack’ Crypto Wallet, Exchange
Just weeks-old, their exchange product is already posting nine-figure days of dollarized trading volume with customers in Asia, the Middle East as wel [...]
Haley’s Attacks on Trump Over Veterans Aren’t Working, and Could Help Biden
The former governor has sought to link Donald Trump’s disparaging comments about her about husband’s military service to his history of disrespectful [...]
JetBlue resets with new CEO Joanna Geraghty, airline veterans
A JetBlue Airways plane prepares to depart New York's LaGuardia Airport.Leslie Josephs/CNBCIn the 24 years since JetBlue Airways' first flight, the Ne [...]
Was minister right in veterans row with Vorderman?
Carol Vorderman says Johnny Mercer has not met his pledge to veterans - the minister says he has.
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Veterans demand Commons debate on review into past armed forces gay ban
Campaigners are accusing the government of failing on its key pledges over LGBT veterans ban.
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Trump Takes Veterans Day Speech in a Very Different Direction
The former president said that threats from abroad were less concerning than liberal “threats from within” and that he was a “very proud election deni [...]
John Kelly Confirms Trump’s Disparaging of Veterans
In a statement to CNN, Mr. Kelly corroborated reporting from 2020 that he declined to confirm at the time despite pressure from friends and associates [...]
Biden Trumpets Legislation for Veterans Despite Backlog in Claims
Kerrie Wiener did not know if she had another fight in her.It had been more than a decade since her husband, Robert Wiener Jr., a U.S. Army Reserve ve [...]
Nuclear test medal: UK veterans to receive recognition after years-long campaign
Around 22,000 people are eligible for a medal to be issued 70 years after the first atomic tests.
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Rishi Sunak apologises to UK’s LGBT veterans for army gay ban
"Having our history, experiences and enormous pain acknowledged and apologised for, hearing that the armed services and government that perpetuated in [...]
LGBT veterans: On behalf of the British state I apologise
Rishi Sunak has said the ban on LGBT members of the armed forces serving until the year 2000 was "an appalling failure of the British state".The prime [...]
Exploit targets crypto veterans, drains over $10M across 11 blockchains
An unidentified exploit has taken more than $10.5 million in nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and coins from experienced community members who were “reasonab [...]
Burn Pit Program for Veterans Could Cost at Least $400 Billion, Agency Finds
In a report reviewing the nation’s budget outlook, Congress’s nonpartisan scorekeeper estimated that a veterans health program created last year would [...]