Latest "U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs" stories

Vets calling crisis line get lost in system, whistleblowers warn

A government watchdog group has promised to investigate the claims.

By Leo Shane III

3 weeks ago

This Jan. 17, 1966, file photo, shows part of the wreckage of the U.S. Air Force B-52 that crashed in Palomares, Spain, after a mid-air collision with a KC-135 aerial tanker during refueling.

Air Force vet’s case over 1966 B-52 crash, cleanup in Spain goes before court

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs used flawed radiation data to deny disability benefits to veterans who responded to a 1966 plane accident involving U.S. hydrogen bombs in Spain, Yale Law School students told a federal appeals court Wednesday.

3 years ago

Presidential candidate Yang supports psychedelic mushrooms for veterans’ medical treatment

“I’ve talked to veterans who’ve also benefited from psilocybin mushrooms," Yang said. "They said it was the only thing that actually has helped combat their PTSD. Pretty much if it’s going to help a veteran, we should make it easier, not harder, for them to get access to it."

By Dylan Gresik

4 years ago

How video gaming is helping disabled veterans

“With the Adaptive Controller, it makes everybody equal. It allows these veterans to feel some sense of normalcy, or how they felt prior to their injury."

By Dylan Gresik

4 years ago

Doctor pleads guilty to sexually exploiting VA patients

A California doctor has pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting five women — several of them veterans — while doing work for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

4 years ago

For some veterans, strangers are family at burial services

There were no relatives at Vietnam veteran Stephen Jerald Spicer’s funeral, but his passing didn’t go unnoticed as a few dozen patriotic strangers showed up to honor his service.

By Lisa Maria Garza, The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel via the AP

4 years ago