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VAntage Point – Last Saturday, hours before sunrise, North Carolina Veterans formed a line outside Goodwill Industries in Winston-Salem, N.C., to speak directly with VA employees about the [...]

WTOP.com/AP – A Virginia program aimed at hiring veterans is claiming 10,000 jobs pledged to vets. Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced the milestone Wednesday for the Virginia Values Veterans [...]

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Lee Zeldin (R, C- NY-1), member of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, announced today that he was appointed to serve on two important subcommittees: the [...]

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) today introduced the Homeless Veterans Welcome Home Act of 2015, legislation that would establish a [...]

Newser – It’s not uncommon for modern-day soldiers to return from Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. But now it turns out that soldiers who fought there 3,000 years [...]

Lansing State Journal – A first-term senator on the Veterans, Military and Homeland Security Committee, Knezek — a Democrat from Dearborn Heights — wants to standardize the [...]

Military Times – An Institute of Medicine scientific panel comprised of public health experts stated “with confidence” that some of the 1,500 to 2,100 Air Force Reserve [...]

Military Times – A new Institute of Medicine report that found veterans were exposed to Agent Orange while flying in C-123 aircraft after the Vietnam War came three years after another [...]

Washington Times – Veterans advocates mostly supported a bill Tuesday that would allow the VA secretary to take back a bonus if an employee was found to have been manipulating data. Rep. [...]

Federal Times – Senior executives at the Veterans Affairs Department could have their pensions docked and their bonuses cut under legislation introduced Jan. 22. Read More >