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GOP senator proposes commission to study VA disability ratings system
In the wake of a Washington Post investigation into fraud within the Veterans Affairs disability system and watchdog recommendations that the VA modernize its ratings schedule, a Republican senator has suggested creating a commission to review the VA’s disability compensation program. At a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday in Washington, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., questioned ...[Read More]
Government headed to a shutdown after last-ditch vote fails in Senate
Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a near certain path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday for the first time in nearly seven years. The Senate rejected the legislation as Democrats are making good on their threat to close the government if President Donald Trump and Republicans won’t accede to their health care demands. The 55-45 vo...[Read More]
Government headed to a shutdown after last-ditch vote fails in Senate
Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a near certain path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday for the first time in nearly seven years. The Senate rejected the legislation as Democrats are making good on their threat to close the government if President Donald Trump and Republicans won’t accede to their health care demands. The 55-45 vo...[Read More]
Government shutdown prompts cancellation of some Veterans Day events
Normally on Veterans Day, volunteers gather at the Riverside National Cemetery in California to place flags alongside more than 300,000 gravesites. But not this year. The longest federal government shutdown on record is curtailing and outright canceling parades, ceremonies and other events across the U.S. that are normally held to mark Veterans Day. It’s another fallout of the shutdown that has di...[Read More]
Grab-and-go food stations will be open all day by end of 2026
The U.S. Navy is in the process of expanding the amount of grab-and-go food stations at shore-based installations and implementing changes that will make those options accessible all day. Vice Adm. Scott Gray, commander of Navy Installations Command, announced the development during a media roundtable Wednesday, in which he discussed the service’s recently announced food service transformation ini...[Read More]
Greatest of All Time? Navy Veteran Wows Baseball Fans with National Anthem
Generald Wilson’s performance on baseball’s opening night is making waves across social media, but not many know his background as a dedicated officer and advocate for veterans.
Greenland welcomes US military pact but trust still shaky
Greenland’s government and residents expressed relief that a military pact with the United States and Denmark may end anxiety over President Donald Trump’s threats to seize their Arctic island, but many remain distrustful of Washington. “I am incredibly relieved and think the outcome is very sensible. We can be satisfied,” Naaja Nathanielsen, a Greenlandic MP in the Danish parliament, told Reuters...[Read More]
Guam hosts Australia, India, Japan and US forces in Exercise Malabar 2025
Australia, India, Japan and U.S. forces participated in Exercise Malabar 2025, in and around the island of Guam, Nov. 10-18.
Guard deployments in DC and Portland are focus of court hearings
The deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., faced a challenge in a court in the nation’s capital Friday, while a judge in Portland, Oregon, said she expects to rule by Monday on whether to let President Donald Trump put troops on the street there. The hearings are the latest in a head-spinning array of lawsuits and overlapping rulings prompted by Trump’s push to send the military ...[Read More]
Guard deployments in DC and Portland are focus of court hearings
The deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., faced a challenge in a court in the nation’s capital Friday, while a judge in Portland, Oregon, said she expects to rule by Monday on whether to let President Donald Trump put troops on the street there. The hearings are the latest in a head-spinning array of lawsuits and overlapping rulings prompted by Trump’s push to send the military ...[Read More]
Guardsman who served as NYPD officer dies in Kuwait in non-combat incident
The Pentagon announced Sunday that an Army National Guard officer who also served as a New York City policeman died on March 6 following a non-combat incident. Maj. Sorffly Davius, 46, of Queens, New York, passed away at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, according to a Defense Department release. Davius was assigned to Headquarters Battalion, 42nd Infantry Division out of Troy, New York, the release added. T...[Read More]
Guidance needed for doctors treating DOD, VA patients exposed to jet fuel in Hawaii water, report says
Because no clinical guidance exists for medical providers in their long-term treatment of people exposed to jet fuel, the Defense Health Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs should develop guidance, along with residents of Hawaii, for those exposed to fuel-contaminated water in the state in 2021, a new report recommends. There’s not enough data to determine the risk of long-term health ef...[Read More]