Arizona couple pleads guilty to $1.2B insurance scheme targeting elderly and terminally ill veterans and service members

Alexandra Gehrke, 39, and Jeffrey King, 46, admitted to running medical companies from 2022 to 2024 that submitted more than $1.2 billion in false claims to Medicare and insurance programs that cover active-duty service members, disabled veterans and their families.

Senate confirms Doug Collins as VA secretary

Collins, 58, has pledged to protect veterans benefits from potential funding cuts and expressed support for expanding access to medical care outside the VA system.

USS Fort Worth sailors honor WWII Navy veteran on her 101st birthday

The crew of the USS Fort Worth gathered Monday to celebrate the milestone birthday of Elsie “Kitty” Rippin, a World War II Navy veteran, who turned 101 years old Friday.

One of the last Tuskegee Airmen dies at age 100 in Michigan

Harry S. Stewart Jr., a fighter pilot with the Tuskegee Airmen who earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for three kills in a single mission, died Sunday in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He was 100.

VA orders many political appointees, non-union employees back to the office by Feb. 24

Political appointees, senior executives and non-union employees living within 50 miles of their workplaces are ordered to end remote work arrangements and return to the office by Feb. 24.

Service members look to Trump to restart evacuations of Afghans who aided US forces

Veterans groups are urging President Donald Trump to make exceptions for Afghan allies who are now barred from entering the United States under executive orders.

Florida nonprofit aims to cut veteran suicides with new ‘Red Star’ banner

The Red Star Foundation in Clearwater, Fla., aims to provide a support network and recognize families affected by veteran suicides through the award of a Red Star banner and pin, modeled on the Gold Star recognition provided to the families of service members killed during active service.

Sailor who survived 1941 Pearl Harbor attack in battleship’s belly dies at age 103

William Henry Pratt, who survived both the 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of dangerous patrols aboard a submarine during World War II, died last week in Fresno, Calif. He was 103.

Korean War soldier lost in the ‘Frozen Chosin’ laid to rest in San Antonio

Seventy-four years after her brother shipped off to boot camp, Holland said she had given up hope that her brother would ever come home. But the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency in August identified her brother’s remains using DNA that Holland had provided and she was able to bring him to Texas for burial.

Afghanistan veteran, pilot who served in the Navy were 2 of 3 soldiers killed in Army helicopter’s midair crash over DC

Staff Sgt. Ryan O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Ga., served as a Black Hawk repairer in the Army from July 2014 until his death Wednesday night. The remains of another soldier, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Eaves, 39, of Great Mills, Md., have not yet been recovered.