May 18 Pentagon study finds promise in brain training program for veterans with cognitive issues By Sharon Begley, STAT A Pentagon-funded study has found that a specific form of computer-based brain training can improve cognitive performance in vets who suffered persistent mental deficits after a mild traumatic brain injury. Continue reading
Apr 11 WATCH: Trump hosts Oval Office celebration for World War II vets By Associated Press After Trump addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention last year, he welcomed 95-year-old Allen Jones to the stage. The White House says Jones asked to spend his birthday Thursday with the president and Trump agreed. Continue reading
Apr 01 AP fact check: Trump’s exaggerations about the Russia probe By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Eric Tucker, Associated Press President Donald Trump is taking his interpretation of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation well beyond the facts. Here's a closer look at the president's claims in the past week. Continue reading
Mar 21 AP fact check: Trump takes credit for law named after McCain By Hope Yen, Calvin Woodward, Associated Press The president routinely takes full credit for the Veterans Choice Program, which was expanded last year but first signed into law in 2014. Continue reading
Mar 10 AP fact check: Trump claims an exoneration he wasn’t given By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen, Associated Press Donald Trump heard words from a judge that the judge didn’t speak, as the president reached to denounce the Russia investigation as a hoax and celebrate an exoneration he wasn’t given. Democrats persisted in assailing the Trump administration for putting… Continue reading
Feb 18 AP fact check: Trump spins fiction about diversity visas By Calvin Woodward, Hope Yen, Associated Press President Donald Trump is going after the "horror show" known as the diversity visa lottery program. His description of it is pure fiction. Here's a closer look at the president's claim, among others, this past week. Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch 3:30 Supreme Court declines to hear case about toxic burn pits on military bases overseas By Hari Sreenivasan The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from veterans who had sued defense contractors over claims that toxic smoke from open burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan caused them serious health problems. One of the contractors, KBR, countered that… Continue watching
Dec 31 Veterans’ support for Trump strong, poll shows By Emily Swanson, Hannah Fingerhut, Associated Press Nearly 6 in 10 military veterans voted for Republican candidates in the November midterm elections, and a similar majority had positive views of President Donald Trump's leadership. But women, the fastest growing demographic group in the military, are defying that… Continue reading
Nov 11 Watch 25:00 November 11, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode By PBS News Hour On this edition for Sunday, Nov. 11, world leaders gather in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, and a new wave of veterans are elected into office. Also, can a Florida town become… Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch 3:31 Democratic veterans helped tip House scales By PBS News Hour A record 200 military veterans ran for the House and Senate this year, with at least six Democrats pulling upsets are taking open seats. Claudia Grisales, who reports on Congress for Stars and Stripes, recently called this group a “new… Continue watching