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Army Specialist Daniel Hutchinson once sliced a man’s throat to keep him breathing. He knows how to slip a needle between a patient’s ribs to re-inflate a lung. He fastened tourniquets on dozens of shredded limbs during 12 months in Iraq. Read more »

Congress is using its relatively few working days before November's general election to send a message of support to the nation's 21 million-plus veterans. No legislative breakthroughs are expected, but lawmakers in both parties hope the late push will help them make their case to a critical voting bloc. Read more »

A key lawmaker said he likes the improvements being made in military transition assistance programs but worries that service members might not get enough time away from duties to take full advantage of those improvements. Read more »

What began as a dramatic but seemingly isolated scandal over wasteful conference spending at the General Services Administration has expanded to include a dozen agencies. Read more »

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has proposed opening military Tricare networks of civilian health care providers to veterans who can’t get timely mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Read more »

A 73-year-old attorney pleaded guilty in Houston federal district court Tuesday to conspiring with his wife to steal $2.3 million from 49 disabled veterans and then hiding the thefts by creating fake reports, imaginary bank accounts and filing a bogus income tax return. Read more »

As Congress remains at a loggerheads over how to reform the nation's signature jobs training program, a new opportunity being offered only to unemployed veterans seems to have confirmed one thing: there is a desperate hunger for job training during one of the worst periods of extended unemployment since the Great Depression Read more »

Department of Veterans Affairs investigators Tuesday interviewed the family of a brain-damaged veteran whose room was monitored by James A. Haley VA Medical Center officials using a camera disguised as a smoke detector. Read more »

Demands for a full accounting of federal conference costs are being rebuffed by agencies that can't or won't produce spending records sought by Congress. Read more »

Johnny and George Saxton are sitting in the hot sun on a parking lot retaining wall outside of the Washington, D.C. Veteran's Medical Center. Their discomfort and difficulties have come after hospital administrators removed several benches in front of the building where these brothers and veterans used to sit. Read more »