Veterans advocacy groups are urging lawmakers to adopt legislation to address complaints about barriers to care for the most physically vulnerable patients — veterans incapacitated by catastrophic injuries and illness. 

Army veteran Kevin Bittenbender and Marine veteran Kirstie Ennis look to set a world record with a 47.5-mile Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim hike at Grand Canyon National Park. Both are missing part of one of their legs.

The bills range from establishing studies on exposure to liver flukes in Vietnam veterans later diagnosed with bile duct cancer to prioritizing the delivery of survivors’ benefits for family members of deceased veterans.

If passed, Senate Bill 1256, sponsored by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D- Laredo, would allow free passage to eligible military veterans but only on the 41-mile stretch of State Highway 130 in Austin, Texas.

The program has purchased more than 17,000 delinquent loans valued at nearly $5.5 billion since launching in May 2024. But Community Home Lenders of America estimated there are thousands of additional veterans with delinquent loans who might still qualify and benefit from the program.

In this week’s episode, host Sarah Kallassy takes a look at ChampVA and how the VA is using VA’s Digital Divide Consult to get Veterans without internet or internet-connected devices connected so they can use telehealth services.

Thirty years after two former U.S. Army soldiers detonated a truck bomb outside a federal building in America’s heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain.

Senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs would be banned from ever again taking bonuses that Congress established for rank-and-file workers — including police, housekeepers and claims processors — under legislation adopted by the Senate.

Richard Armitage, who as deputy to Secretary of State Colin Powell helped guide U.S. foreign policy during President George W. Bush’s tumultuous first term and was a central figure in chapters of American national security from the Vietnam War era to the post-Sept. 11, 2001, war on terror, died April 13 at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. He was 79.

Primary care teams at Hampton VA Medical Center in Virginia are operating above capacity as they work to keep up with growing veteran enrollment — leaving staff overburdened and struggling with burnout, according to a recent federal watchdog report.