Latest U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs News
Supreme Court gives some military veterans more generous educational benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a decorated veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in a protracted fight with the government over 12 months of G.I. Bill educational benefits. The court ruled 7-2 that the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly...
Spending bill would ease access to guns for some veterans declared mentally incapable
WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans whom the government declares incapable of managing their own affairs would have easier access to firearms under spending legislation expected to be signed by President Joe Biden in the coming days — a reversal of current law that Republicans, and even some Democrats,...
V-J Day 'Kiss' photo stays on display as VA head reverses department memo that would've banned it
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs secretary has reversed a department memo that aimed to ban VA displays of the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph of a Navy sailor kissing a woman he did not know on the streets of New York at the end of World War II. Secretary...
Robert Port, who led AP investigative team that won Pulitzer for No Gun Ri massacre probe, dies
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — J. Robert Port, who led The Associated Press investigative team when it won a Pulitzer for the Korean War No Gun Ri massacre probe, has died at age 68. Port died Saturday in Lansing, Michigan, according to his sister, Susan Deller. He had been treated for...
Transgender veterans sue to have gender-affirming surgery covered by Department of Veteran Affairs
A group of transgender veterans filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to begin providing and paying for gender-affirming surgeries. The lawsuit from the Transgender American Veterans Association seeks to compel the VA to codify in its...
