Veterans

Veterans push for psychedelic therapy, but MDMA application struggles

Veterans have spent years lobbying for the use of psychedelic drugs to treat PTSD, but a critical review of MDMA has put the therapy's approval in doubt.

Opinion

MDMA-assisted therapy could save veterans and families. Like mine.

Our guest opinion writer, a military spouse, argues that the U.S. government should allow the use of MDMA to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

Pentagon to review 20 Medals of Honor from Wounded Knee Massacre

A panel of five experts will determine by Oct. 15 whether the medals should be retained or rescinded.

Army vet charged in fatal shooting of woman who called 911

Sean Grayson, an Army veteran 14 months into his career as an Illinois sheriff's deputy, is charged with murder in the death of Sonya Massey.

After decades paying out-of-pocket, WWII veteran finally gets benefits

A 103-year-old WWII veteran who’s been paying his medical bills out-of-pocket is finally receiving his veterans benefits after 78 years.

How would Project 2025 impact troops and veterans?

A political playbook for what the next Republican administration could look like suggests major changes for troops and veterans.

Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after uranium exposure

The comedian is pushing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a veterans aid bill that left out some of the first troops who responded after 9/11.

Biden’s pardons still fall short for many LGBTQ veterans

Neither the White House nor the Defense Department could tell The War Horse exactly how many veterans will benefit — or why so many others are left out.

US Army honors Japanese American unit that liberated Tuscany in WWII

The 442nd was key in liberating Italy’s Tuscan region from Nazi-Fascist forces, even while their families were interned at home as enemies of the state.

New VA chief of staff sworn in

Meg Kabat was sworn in Wednesday as the chief of staff for The Department of Veterans Affairs.

Navy clears Black sailors unjustly punished after 1944 deadly blast

Surviving Black sailors of the Port Chicago explosion had to pick up human remains and clear the blast site while white officers were granted leave.

Archeologists find musket balls from early Revolutionary War battle

Nearly 250 years ago, militiamen fired a barrage of musket balls toward retreating British troops, marking the first major Revolutionary War battles.

Remains of Bataan Death March POW returned home

U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. 1st Class Charles R. Powers was held at the Cabanatuan prison camp where more than 2,500 POWs died.

Afghanistan War Commission wants veteran stories and questions

A congressionally-appointed group is seeking insight from those who served in Afghanistan.

Army veteran charged with killing a homeless man, attacking another

Karl P. Loucks allegedly pepper-sprayed a homeless man and got into a confrontation with him before fatally shooting him in Memphis.