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The Hill – President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team at the Pentagon is looking into loosening the rules of engagement for troops fighting overseas, according to a report. Read [...]

Forbes – In a victory for the nation’s nurse practitioners, the Department of Veterans Affairs is granting veterans direct access to advanced practice registered nurses. The final [...]

The Washington Post – Energy secretary is generally one of the last Cabinet positions to be filled by presidents-elect, or so it’s been since Ronald Reagan was staffing up in 1980. [...]

The New York Times – The nation’s largest veterans groups are urging President-elect Donald J. Trump to keep President Obama’s secretary of veterans affairs, Robert A. McDonald, out of [...]

Military Times – Lawmakers passed a veterans omnibus bill in the waning hours of Congress’ legislative session last week, but without many of the most sweeping and controversial provisions [...]

Star Tribune – President Obama signed into law last week a bill that will strengthen oversight of the veteran crisis line at the Department of Veterans Affairs. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, [...]

Military.com – Members of the “big six” veteran service organizations – including the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, Disabled [...]

Washington Post – President-elect Donald Trump choosing retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis as his secretary of defense breaks with decades of U.S. military history, putting a retired [...]

NPR – An Army review concludes that commanders did nothing wrong when they kicked out more than 22,000 soldiers for misconduct after they came back from Iraq or Afghanistan – even though [...]

Government Executive – Two Republican senators want President Obama to implement a government-wide hiring freeze for most federal jobs for the rest of his term so current political [...]