Veterans

Documents show six top administrators of the Veterans Health Administration received performance bonuses in excess of $16,000 last year. (Examiner File)

Work shift delays Minnesota veterans benefits claims

Washington Examiner · December 10, 2013 5:00 am

U.S. Marine veteran Gary Staten poses on the deck outside his home, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, in Hebron, Ky. Staten credits staff at Easter Seals TriState for helping him find a job with FedEx just weeks after his recent military discharge and for his wife's temporary job. The nonprofit Easter Seals organization is in the midst of a new initiative to expand support networks for veterans, military service members and their families. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

Easter Seals has long served disabled veterans

James Jay Carafano · December 9, 2013 5:00 am

Park Young, right, a former member of the Kuwol partisan unit, speaks about Merrill Newman, an elderly American tourist detained in North Korea, during an interview at the Kuwol partisan unit association office in Seoul, South Korea. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

National Security

US vet detained in North Korea oversaw guerrilla group

Foster Klug · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

Patients at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals are not being adequately protected from doctors who have histories of providing substandard treatment, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. (AP Photo)

Slow and sloppy review procedures endanger patients at Veterans Affairs hospitals, GAO finds

Mark Flatten · December 4, 2013 5:00 am

Doctors at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in San Francisco routinely renewed prescriptions for narcotic painkillers for patients they had never seen, according to a report from the agency's inspector general. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Veterans Affairs doctors prescribed drugs for patients they’d never seen, IG finds

Mark Flatten · December 3, 2013 5:00 am

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is the featured speaker at a national conference in Washington on courts that stress treatment over punishment for law-breaking vets. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Veterans Affairs chief touting veteran courts at DC conference

Associated Press · December 2, 2013 5:00 am

Pennsylvania Democratic congressional hopeful Kevin Strouse, shown here Oct. 3, is one of many veterans who have been recruited to run for House seats. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Parties recruit veterans to run for House in 2014

Associated Press · November 29, 2013 5:00 am

As he was dying of complications from his surgery, Willingham wrote this note to his daughter, Sydney Schoellman. It reads: "The VA is responsible for this!!! Whatever they are doing is deceptive and illegal. Do something Syd" Courtesy Willingham family

International Business Times: Death, medical mistreatment and worsening woes at Veterans Affairs facilities

Washington Examiner · November 27, 2013 5:00 am

Iraq War veteran Dave Sterling, right, signs a group portrait taken the day before at Napier Hunt Club as Iraq War veteran Ronald Ryker observes at the annual fundraiser dinner for Wounded Warriors in Action's Ducks N Bucks weekend at Clasbey Community Center in Savannah, Mo., Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. Both veterans have purple hearts. (AP Photo/St. Joseph News-Press, Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

U.N. disability treaty won’t protect the rights of wounded veterans

James Jay Carafano · November 25, 2013 5:00 am

Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes has pledged her support for a move in the U.S. Senate to make tax credits permanent for businesses that hire military veterans. It's an issue on which Grimes and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell agree. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Alison Lundergan Grimes pledges support for jobs plan for veterans

Washington Examiner · November 22, 2013 5:00 am

Credit KUOW Photo/John Ryan
The Veterans Affairs hospital in Seattle

KUOW Washington: Veterans Affairs makes getting information even harder

Washington Examiner · November 21, 2013 5:00 am

Daily Beast: Military veterans serving in Congress accuse Pentagon of wasteful spending

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Daily Beast: Military veterans serving in Congress accuse Pentagon of wasteful spending

Washington Examiner · November 15, 2013 5:00 am