In Puerto Rico, A Couple Of Hours Of 'Normal' During The World Series
At the end of a dark pitted street in the center of San Juan, the light from the flat screen beckons. Locals flock toward it like a lighthouse, following the siren song of a rattling diesel generator....
View Article'Cross-Partisan' Group, With Honor, Aims To Support Veteran Candidates For...
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Tomorrow is Veterans Day. That means parades and politics. In last year's election, both Democratic and Republican candidates leaned on...
View ArticleIn Puerto Rico, The Crisis After Hurricane Maria Is Taxing Residents' Mental...
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ELISE HU, HOST: There are some parts of Hurricane Maria's damage in Puerto Rico that you can describe with numbers. Fifty-two percent of the electrical grid is...
View ArticleThe Number Of Homeless Veterans Rises
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here's a phrase you hate to hear and is hard to say - homeless veterans. New government estimates on homelessness show that on a given night,...
View ArticleTrump Executive Order Aims To Expand Veteran Mental Health Care
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump has signed an executive order to help more military veterans get mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs....
View ArticleVeterans Group Says 'Please Stand'
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The Super Bowl is on Sunday, and it's pretty much a given that the game will draw a huge television audience. But long term, NFL viewership...
View ArticleVeterans Affairs Secretary Responds To Criticism For Travel Expenses
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: It's not entirely clear who is running the Department of Veterans Affairs right now. Secretary David Shulkin is under the cloud of an...
View ArticleWashington State Attorney General: Housing Discrimination Against Veterans Is...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Homelessness among veterans rose slightly last year despite a nationwide effort to get them off the streets. One reason the problem is so hard...
View ArticleMy Lai Massacre Of 1968 Continues To Resonate In America
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: And I'm Mary Louise Kelly in Moscow, where the polls are set to open at 8 sharp Sunday morning. Russia is holding a presidential election...
View ArticleTrump To Replace VA Secretary David Shulkin
Updated at 7:30 p.m. ET President Trump intends to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with the White House physician, Navy Rear Adm. Ronny L. Jackson, the president announced on Twitter...
View ArticleDeparture Of VA Secretary Shulkin Doesn't End Debate Of Privatization
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: To talk now a bit more about the outgoing VA secretary, Dr. David Shulkin, I'm joined now by Quil Lawrence. He covers veterans for NPR, and he...
View ArticleRonny Jackson Accused Of Drinking On Duty
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump's pick to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs is a man named Rear Admiral Ronny Jackson, and he is facing a series of...
View ArticleRonny Jackson Withdraws His Nomination To Head VA
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: President Trump has to move to his plan B for leadership at the Department of Veterans Affairs, although we're not sure what plan B is yet....
View ArticleVeterans Affairs In Limbo After Jackson Withdraws As Nominee
The collapse of Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson's nomination to lead the Veterans Affairs Department leaves the VA rudderless, and awaiting its fourth secretary in four years. Jackson withdrew earlier this...
View ArticleVeterans Groups Concerned That Lack Of VA Leadership Will Hurt Millions Of...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: President Trump fired his secretary of Veterans Affairs last month. Trump's nominee to replace him withdrew last week. Meanwhile, many senior...
View ArticleNew York Attorney General Resigns Amid Abuse Allegations
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: To New York now and the resignation of State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. He stepped down after The New Yorker published an...
View ArticleWhite House Has Several Potential Nominees To Lead VA
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The second-largest office of the U.S. government after the Pentagon is the Department of Veterans Affairs. The VA is charged with caring...
View ArticlePresident Trump Nominates Robert Wilkie To Head Veterans Affairs Department
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Tomorrow morning, millions across the globe are expected to tune in for the royal wedding. There will be the pageantry that the British...
View ArticleSurprise! Trump Nominates Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie To Fill Role...
Updated at 9:58 p.m. ET The pick wasn't surprising, but the announcement was – President Trump will nominate Robert Wilkie, the acting secretary of Veterans Affairs, to become the department's new...
View ArticleVA Says It's Trying To Improve Caregiver Program's Appeals Process
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Let's follow up on a report from last year about a Veterans Affairs program for caregivers. After all of our country's wars, family members -...
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