A new report by the Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General has concluded that more than 100 veterans died while waiting for care at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (facility) hospital from October 2014 through August 2015.
In a tremendous victory for Judicial Watch and our supporters, a U.S. District Court in California has declared 75-year-old veteran Robert Rosebrock not guilty of violating federal law for allegedly displaying two four-by-six inch American Flags above a Veterans Affairs (VA) fence on Memorial Day, May 30, 2016.
Four Vietnam war heroes were honored Tuesday for their bravery during the Vietnam War 45 years ago.
President Donald Trump signed a bill to extend the Veterans Choice Program at the Oval Office on Wednesday, inviting influential veterans groups to join him.
President Donald Trump welcomed a group of veterans to the White House, kicking off the annual Soldier ride for wounded veterans.
Actor Gary Sinise has been selected to receive the 2017 George Catlett Marshall Medal, the highest award for public service given out by the Council of Trustees of the Association of the United States Army.
Statistics that come as the high-profile court case surrounding Royal Marine sergeant Alex Blackman reaches its conclusion show the disproportionately high level of former servicemen in British jails. Ministry of Justice statistics show that approximately 5 per cent of the
The treatment of veterans in Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals is an inexplicable scandal. Now try to focus on this: the federal government, in all its might, is bringing criminal charges against a 74-year-old veteran for hanging an American flag on a fence. A four-by-six-inch flag! On a Veterans Affairs fence! On Memorial Day!
Last week, members of the group Veterans Assisting Veterans (VAV) penned an open letter to “all Americans” criticizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and many of her fellow Democrats for their support of illegal immigrants and calling for these politicians to put United States veterans first.
As a response to Starbucks choosing to hire 10,000 refugees to protest President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban, a veteran and now coffee shop owner has an even better idea. Evan Hafer, an Army Special Forces veteran and CEO of Black Rifle Coffee Company,
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) was asked about U.S. federal funding for the United Nations, which has come under fire by many domestically for a Security Council resolution condemning the nation of
Staff members at a Florida VA hospital left a deceased veteran’s body unattended in the shower area for nine hours and then tried to cover up the mistake, according to a report from the Department of Veterans Affairs Administrative Investigation Board.
About 18 months after its opening, the Lifton Institute for Media Arts and Sciences has trained more than 200 veterans in behind-the-camera filmmaking, with roughly 80 percent going on to get jobs in Hollywood.
Combat historian and bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell, who has written seven books on World War II, among others, recalled some of more than five thousand interviews with World War II veterans throughout the years during his interview Wednesday with Breitbart News Daily Sirius XM host Matt Boyle.
Americans across the country are commemorating the December 7, 1941 attack on the military base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii today – an attack that sunk 12 battleships, obliterated hundreds of aircrafts, killed thousands, and forced the United States into World War II.
Four staff members have resigned from a southeastern Oklahoma VA facility after a veteran was found to have maggots in his wound.
A group of veterans is planning to protest Hampshire College’s decision to remove the U.S. flag from campus Sunday with hundreds of U.S. flags.
Hampshire College has decided not to fly the American flag or any other flag on its campus after a flag was burned the night before Veterans’ Day.
During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama marked Veterans Day by saying, “we look to the principles that are more enduring than politics. And some of the best examples are found in the men and women we saluted yesterday, and every
During Friday’s GOP Weekly Address, Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) “Politicians come and go, but the service of our veterans is an unbroken chain.” And “far too often in recent years, the stories we hear [from veterans] are ones of struggle.”
ATKINSON, New Hampshire — Republican nominee Donald Trump kicked off his final push for the presidency on Friday in New Hampshire, where a packed audience of about 1,000 gathered to hear their candidate at the Atkinson Country Club. Trump cited
Football’s ruling world body, Fifa, has banned footballers from wearing poppies on their shirts during an England v Scotland match to be played on November 11 – Armistice Day.
A city in Idaho is looking for vandals who destroyed a 350-pound bell used to honor veterans at a memorial.
About 10,000 California Army National Guard members have been ordered to return enlistment bonuses of $15,000 or more they accepted from military recruiters that committed fraud at the height of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Breitbart Texas was in Livingston, Texas, approximately 74 miles north of Houston, when we spotted a Cajun seafood restaurant just loaded with Trump/Pence placards and some local county political race signs.
The Phoenix Veterans Affairs office has built a new backlog of cases and has canceled appointments due to questionable reasons as more than 200 veterans died waiting for care in 2015, according to a new report released by the department’s inspector general.
A driver in California who claimed to control the steering of his car with psychic/telekinetic powers told police he crashed into a vehicle being driven by an Afghanistan war veteran in the name of Allah, reports Fox 26 News.
“This is the warfare of the future,” the Republican nominee stated about cyber security, speaking prior to taking questions from the veterans. “We should turn cyber warfare into one of our greatest weapons against the terrorists.”
Veterans groups were left outraged after producers for the upcoming Transformers film decorated the home where former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born with Nazi flags to film a scene this week.
CNN’s most senior political journalists could barely contain their outrage on Friday morning after Republican nominee Donald Trump used an event that they expected to be about Birtherism to showcase his support from veterans, Medal of Honor winners, retired flag officers, and Medal of Honor winners.
Staff at a Veterans’ Affairs hospital in Georgia granted a dying veteran his two last wishes: to be baptized and to go fishing one last time.
At the NBC Commander-in-Chief Forum, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump promised to fix wait times at the Veterans Administration hospitals and blasted his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, for her statements about medical treatment for veterans.
Donald Trump said that if he been President of the United States instead of President Obama, the Islamic State (ISIS) wouldn’t have expanded after the U.S. pulled out of Iraq because he would have taken the oil.
The Commander-in-Chief Forum is a first-of-its-kind event and will be broadcast live on MSNBC and most NBC stations starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Lauer, a former “notable member” of the Clinton Global Initiative—a leadership arm of the highly controversial Clinton Foundation—will moderate the event, which is being put on by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) organization here in New York City.
“People don’t have any morals anymore, apparently,” American Legion Post 83 financial officer James Hiles told the South Bend Tribune, neatly summarizing the case of over 300 bronze medallions stolen from the graves of military veterans in Patton Cemetery.
Oklahoma Congressman Jim Bridenstine and Virginia State Senator Col. Richard Black endorse former Arizona State Senator Dr. Kelli Ward in her bid to replace 30-year incumbent Senator John McCain in the U.S. Senate. Both Bridenstine and Black, elected officials with significant national security backgrounds, are confident in Ward’s ability to support America’s military and veterans.
On Thursday Dr. Kelli Ward, the U.S. Senate candidate challenging Sen. John McCain, addressed a room full of veterans to lay out her vision for a better health care plan for military veterans that is driven by the needs of those service members and for a better Veterans Administration.
A 19-year-old claims he was fired by a Jack in the Box franchise in Bakersfield, CA for “mishandling funds” after he gave away nearly $2 worth of food — a coffee and two tacos — instead of throwing it away.
On August 7, Facebook shut down ‘Tactical Sh*t’–an online community for military, veterans, law enforcement, and supporters of the Second Amendment.
The ongoing effort to paint Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as an enemy of American veterans is nothing new. In fact, it follows the typical Democratic Party playbook for the last several elections.
