September 14, 2016 House moves ahead on bill to make it easier to fire at VA The Republican-led House is moving ahead on a bill aimed at making it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees for misconduct or poor performance — a source of ongoing tension with the Obama administration.
September 7, 2016 House panel subpoenas VA over Denver hospital, artwork Demanding explanations for a $1 billion cost overrun, a House panel Wednesday issued a subpoena to the Department of Veterans Affairs for documents on how the cost of a Denver-area VA hospital ballooned to almost $1.7 billion.
September 7, 2016 World War II Navajo Code Talker dies in Arizona, tribe announces Another Navajo Code Talker has died in Arizona.
August 31, 2016 Marine vet with PTSD suspected of shooting, killing woman after car crash A man charged with murder for fatally shooting a woman after a traffic accident near Cleveland served two tours in Iraq with the U.S. Marine Corps and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, records show.
August 30, 2016 Family of Marine who died at Wisconsin VA center files suit The family of a Marine veteran who died from a toxic mix of more than a dozen drugs at a U.S. Veterans Affairs facility in Tomah, Wisconsin, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the U.S. government.
August 28, 2016 Headstone of Civil War soldier to be fixed after 154 years Some mistakes are never too late to fix.
August 25, 2016 Vet who lied his way to Purple Heart cost government $750,000, Justice Dept. claims Federal prosecutors now say a former soldier who lied his way to a Purple Heart by faking injuries from the Iraq war cheated Washington state and the federal government out of more than $750,000 -- about three times what investigators cited when they first charged him with fraud in 2014.
August 25, 2016 Viral video: Navy officers sing 'Anchors Aweigh' to Pearl Harbor survivor at his home A 98-year-old survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack would regularly visit the USS Iowa near his home in Southern California, but health issues recently kept him away -- so in a viral video, the Navy came to him.
August 24, 2016 Dallas gunman who attacked police had symptoms of PTSD, records show The Army reservist who killed five Dallas police officers last month showed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home from Afghanistan in 2014, but doctors concluded that he presented no serious risk to himself or others, according to newly released documents from the Veterans Health Administration.
August 24, 2016 US heroes in another Iwo Jima photo were misidentified, Marine Corps announces The Marine Corps announced Wednesday that U.S. service members seen in another photo taken at Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945 were also misidentified, two months after correcting the record on one of the most iconic images from World War II.
