Tag: veterans
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 [...]
LGBT+ veterans compensation scheme to launch in January
Compensation for LGBT veterans who faced mistreatment in the military will begin in January, a defence minister has announced.The government will star [...]
In North Carolina Town Hall, Trump Makes a Series of Promises to Appeal to Veterans
Donald J. Trump answered preselected questions from a pro-military crowd who echoed his false claims and approved of his vow to conduct massive deport [...]
Keir Starmer says all military veterans will get homes
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised to give all military veterans, young care leavers and victims of domestic abuse a "guaranteed roof over t [...]
Biden Expected to Pardon Veterans Convicted of Having Gay Sex
The president’s proclamation would grant clemency to around 2,000 people charged between 1951 and 2013 under a military code that outlawed the behavio [...]
War Veterans and Family Testify at Al Qaeda Commander’s War Crimes Tribunal
Victims of insurgent attacks in wartime Afghanistan described their loss to a jury at Guantánamo Bay to give a human face to a written guilty plea.
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Biden Uses D-Day Anniversary to Swat at Trump on Veterans Issues
The president’s campaign released a digital ad featuring three veterans criticizing Donald Trump as ‘a draft dodger,’ unfit to be commander in chief.
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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 [...]