Veterans

Retired Adm. Mike Mullen on Tuesday went well beyond his traditional area of expertise, military affairs, and held forth on issues ranging from the national debt to K-12 education. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Former top military officer sees national debt as biggest threat to country

Tim Mak · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire is asking for a detailed plan to restore, operate and maintain a cemetery in the Philippines where more than 8,300 American veterans are buried, a year after President Barack Obama signed into a law a bill to restore it. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

New Hampshire’s Kelly Ayotte asks for plan to restore vet cemetery

Associated Press · January 16, 2014 5:00 am

Man charged with stealing from Cape Cod veterans

Washington Examiner · January 15, 2014 5:00 am

Veterans Administration under fire for proposed disability filing rule

Veterans Administration under fire for proposed disability filing rule

Kevin Freking · January 11, 2014 5:19 pm

VA reports spike in suicides among youngest vets

VA reports spike in suicides among youngest vets

Kevin Freking · January 9, 2014 11:40 pm

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., recently defended the pension cut in an op-ed in USA Today, saying he stands behind "responsible reforms of military compensation." (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Disabled veterans to be exempted from federal pension cuts

Andrew Taylor · January 9, 2014 5:00 am

Disabled veterans to be exempted from pension cuts

Disabled veterans to be exempted from pension cuts

Andrew Taylor · January 8, 2014 10:34 pm

In this Monday, Dec. 16, 2013, photo, Army Staff Sgt. Oskar Zepeda poses for a photo at the entrance to a Digital Forensics Lab at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Seattle, where he is serving a one-year internship. Zepeda, who served nine tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, before being wounded, is part of a 17-member class of veterans deployed to ICE field offices throughout the country to use his newly acquired skills in computer forensics to help capture and prosecute child predators. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Wounded veterans work to put away child predators

Kevin Freking · January 6, 2014 3:05 pm

California congressmen want to repeal veterans’ pension cuts

Washington Examiner · January 4, 2014 5:00 am

Alleged Vandalism at Veterans Cemetery Causes Controversy

Jim Swift · January 1, 2014 3:12 pm

Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., discusses the compromise spending plan during a television news interview on Capitol Hill on Dec. 18. The bill is designed to keep Congress from lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis and ease the harshest effects of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Patty Murray: ‘Technical error’ that cuts disabled veterans benefits will be fixed

Sean Lengell · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

A veteran who challenges an initial rating faces an average of more than three additional years to get a verdict from the Board of Veterans Appeals, according to agency reports.

Claims errors, long appeals still haunt disabled veterans

Mark Flatten · December 11, 2013 5:00 am