Veterans Groups Concerned That Lack Of VA Leadership Will Hurt Millions Of...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump fired his secretary of Veterans Affairs last month. Trump's nominee to replace him withdrew last week. Meanwhile, many senior...
View ArticleNew York Attorney General Resigns Amid Abuse Allegations
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To New York now and the resignation of State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. He stepped down after The New Yorker published an...
View ArticleWhite House Has Several Potential Nominees To Lead VA
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The second-largest office of the U.S. government after the Pentagon is the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is charged with caring...
View ArticlePresident Trump Nominates Robert Wilkie To Head Veterans Affairs Department
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The pick wasn't surprising, but the announcement was. President Trump today nominated the VA's acting secretary, Robert Wilkie, to become...
View ArticleSurprise! Trump Nominates Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie To Fill Role...
Updated at 9:58 p.m. ET The pick wasn't surprising, but the announcement was – President Trump will nominate Robert Wilkie, the acting secretary of Veterans Affairs, to become the department's new...
View ArticleVA's Caregiver Program Still Dropping Veterans With Disabilities
In the early days of the Iraq War, troops were riding around in Humvees with almost no armor on them. There was a scandal about it, and within a few years the trucks got up-armored with thick steel...
View ArticleMore Vets Who Are Coping With PTSD From Sexual Assaults Get Honorable Discharges
Sexual assault is still a major issue for the military. Reports rose by 10 percent last year , though there is some discussion about whether that is an increase in the number of assaults or an...
View ArticleMarine Corps' Top General Joins Ramadan Meal
The commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, stopped by a mosque outside Baltimore on Thursday evening for Iftar, the fast-breaking meal during the month of Ramadan, when practicing...
View ArticleTrump Wins Pledge From Kim To Return Remains Of Americans From Korean War
One of the four key points agreed to by President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is to help repatriate the remains of Americans killed in action during the Korean War. "The United States and...
View ArticleICE Drops Deportation Threat Against Chinese Student Joining U.S. Army
The Army has long had shortages of health care workers and speakers of certain languages , and in 2009 it started doing what other industries, including the medical field have done: It looked to...
View ArticleTrump's Uncontroversial VA Pick Sails Through Confirmation Hearing
Back in March, President Trump fired his first VA secretary, David Shulkin. His first nominee to fill the post, White House physician Ronny Jackson, withdrew after charges of professional misconduct....
View ArticleSenate Confirms Pentagon Official To Head Veterans Affairs Department
President Trump's second VA secretary, Robert Wilkie, was confirmed 86-9 by the Senate on Monday. He takes the helm of the second largest department in the U.S. government, with more than 350,000...
View ArticleTrump Faces Friendly Crowd At VFW Convention
President Trump delivered a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Kansas City, Mo., offering many of his regular talking points about everything from tariffs to immigration to the...
View ArticleNorth Korea Turns Over 55 Boxes Of Possible Remains Of U.S. Serviceman
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been 65 years to the day since an armistice ended the Korean War. And this morning at Osan Air Base in South Korea, American and allied...
View ArticleRobert Wilkie Sworn In As Secretary Of Veterans Affairs
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In the Oval Office this afternoon, President Trump swore in Robert Wilkie to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. Wilkie's worked for...
View ArticleAn Iraq Veteran, Heroin Addict, Bank Robber And Debut Novelist
Nico Walker is in jail for robbing banks. He can use the pay phone for 15 minutes at a time, and then he has to wait a half-hour. It took a while to do an interview. That's also sort of the way he...
View ArticleWhy The Number Of U.S. Visas Being Granted To Afghan And Iraqi Allies Are Down
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: For 17 years, Afghan and Iraqi interpreters have served alongside U.S. soldiers at war. They face not just the danger of combat but death...
View ArticleA Vet's Suicide Pushes The VA To Do Better
Your kid can grow up, even join the Army and go to war, and you'll still do dad things when he comes back. David Toombs would make his son lunch. "I always made him extra, just in case he got hungry or...
View ArticleArmy Maj. D.J. Skelton Wants You To Look Him In The Eye
There were plenty of reasons that Army Maj. D.J. Skelton might never have made it to his retirement ceremony this week in Arlington, Va. West Point had admitted him through a small program for already...
View ArticleKansas City Mayoral Candidate Jason Kander Drops Out, Citing PTSD
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Jason Kander, a Missouri politician seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party and a favorite in the Kansas City mayor's race, is dropping...
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