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Oath Keeper Army vet Rhodes’ jail term too short, says Justice Dept
While Rhodes received a long sentence for seditious conspiracy and other convictions, the 18-year term was below federal guidelines' recommendations.
Senate leaders promise vote on expanding benefits for burn pit victims
The sweeping bill has been stalled in the Senate over concerns related to cost and potential workload burdens on Veterans Affairs workers.
Plan to give new benefits to burn pits victims passes House, faces difficult path ahead
The move comes just days after President Joe Biden urged Congress to provide more help for veterans suffering from the toxic smoke.
Sweeping burn pit benefits bill set for House vote next week
The measure could provide new veterans benefits to as many as one in every five living veterans.
Everyone wants to help military toxic exposure victims. Not all want to pay.
Lawmakers support the idea but face problems paying for the nearly $300 billion plan.
Veteran exposed to toxic burn pit smoke dies of cancer after misdiagnosis lawsuit settlement
While serving overseas, Wesley Black said he frequently breathed in smoke from pits used to incinerate human and medical waste, plastic water bottles, ammunition and chemicals on military bases.
Debate on ‘no first use’ of nukes mushrooms in Washington
Five years after President Barack Obama turned back from declaring a “no first use” as U.S. policy for nuclear weapons, opponents say the Biden administration is considering it too, and warn that it risks alienating allies.
By Joe Gould
In interview with Jon Stewart, Veterans Affairs chief says he’s ‘frustrated’ over slow pace of burn pit benefits
About 3.5 million veterans are beleived to be suffering some ill effects from exposure to burn pit smoke in overseas combat zones since 2001.
Veteran pleads guilty after FEMA, VA contracts for masks go unfilled
Prosecutors say the government lost no money on the contracts because he was to be paid on delivery, but the government was cheated out of more than $330,000 in two other schemes.
Top policy, intelligence civilians resign amid Pentagon shakeup
Anderson joins Defense Secretary Mark Esper in exiting the building.
By Aaron Mehta
‘Will I be a statistic?’ There is a different mindset entertainment star and former Ranger Vincent ‘Rocco’ Vargas wants vets to take
He currently stars in “Mayans M.C.” on FX, which gives him what he says is “the most significant role in Hollywood for a scripted show as an OEF, OIR combat veteran."
By Andrea Scott