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Posted Apr 29, 2022, 6:44 am
Alexia Stanbridge
/Cronkite News
The founder of Operation Restoring Veteran Hope and others shared their stories as the Biden administration unveiled a number of job-training, housing, education and health care initiatives aimed at helping former inmates reenter society.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2022, 5:31 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
A 45-year-old fight for disability benefits landed on the Supreme Court steps Tuesday as a veteran asked the justices to enforce a safety-valve provision to save what he says was a wrongly denied claim. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 30, 2022, 6:06 am
Samantha Chow
/Cronkite News
Vietnam veterans were honored Tuesday - National Vietnam War Veterans Day - by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona with a private wreath-laying ceremony.... Read more»
Posted Mar 14, 2022, 2:58 pm
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday began the years-long process of restructuring its nationwide health care network, an endeavor that will require the president and Congress to sign off before it could begin.... Read more»
Posted Dec 9, 2021, 6:55 am
Phil Galewitz
/Kaiser Health News
For nearly a month, the CDC’s vaccine tracker has shown that virtually everyone 65 and older in the United States — 99.9% — has received at least one COVID shot. That would be remarkable if true. But health experts and state officials say it’s certainly not.... Read more»
Posted Nov 8, 2021, 2:55 pm
David Abbott
/Arizona Mirror
Despite a massive budget dwarfed only by that of the Department of Defense, the Veterans Administration is facing health care delivery crises due to miles of red tape and an arcane bureaucracy that blocks veterans from receiving the care they deserve from their service.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 15, 2021, 8:39 am
Kelly Kennedy
/The War Horse
Numbers for breast cancer in military women have been high for years, but as veterans returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, rumors began to swirl: The cancers are hitting young—and they’re extraordinarily aggressive.... Read more»
Posted Sep 28, 2021, 8:12 am
Isaac Arnsdorf
/ProPublica
A congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica’s reporting found Trump’s “Mar-a-Lago crowd,” wealthy civilians with no U.S. government or military experience, pursued a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data.... Read more»
Posted Sep 23, 2021, 5:26 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
More Native veterans will find housing with a $400,000 federal grant to the Tohono O'odham Nation to pay for rental assistance and support services. The tribe is receiving the largest grant in the country awarded under a Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs program.... Read more»
Posted Sep 1, 2021, 10:56 am
Sasha Chavkin
/ProPublica
A troubled Education Department program left many disabled borrowers unable to escape crushing debt, and finally, a decade after ProPublica exposed the issue, the US has taken a major step to address the program’s defects. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 31, 2021, 5:50 am
David Abbott
/Arizona Mirror
Despite increasing legal access to medical and recreational cannabis in states across the U.S., veterans face unfair treatment and stigmatization because the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs refuses to recognize marijuana as a viable treatment option. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 31, 2020, 3:27 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Federal agents seized more than 200,000 counterfeit N95 surgical masks over the last 45 days, during an investigation launched by agents at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport.... Read more»
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Posted Apr 8, 2020, 10:27 am
Rachana Pradham & Christina Jewett /Kaiser Health News
A high-ranking federal official in late February warned that the U.S. needed to plan for not having enough personal protective equipment for medical workers battling coronavirus, internal emails show.... Read more»
Posted Mar 17, 2020, 11:01 am
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Twenty Arizonans have now tested postive for COVID-19 as the pandemic continues Tuesday and the number of people being tested in the state increases.... Read more»
Posted Mar 16, 2020, 12:00 pm
Dylan Smith & Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel.com
The number of known cases of coronavirus increased by 50% overnight in Arizona, as more tests are being run after weeks of limited access even as the COVID-19 pandemic grew.... Read more»
Posted Jan 20, 2020, 4:19 pm
Madeline Ackley
/Cronkite News
But for decades, Native veterans and their allies have clamored for Congress to address what they see as inequalities within the VA system.... Read more»