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GOP frontrunner Donald Trump invited fellow GOP presidential candidates Gov. Mike Huckabee and Sen. Rick Santorum to attend his fundraiser for veterans after the two expressed interest in attending for a good cause and brought them on stage with him to discuss veterans issues.

Zack Aboud, Iowa’s 43rd district temporary chair, attended GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s fundraiser for veterans, which the frontrunner hosted instead of competing in Fox News’s GOP debate on Thursday night.

Tana Goertz, Iowa state co-chair for GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, kicked off his fundraiser for veterans on Thursday night with extravagant compliments.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Diamond and Silk, the African American sisters from North Carolina who “stump for Trump,” spoke at GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s event for veterans on Thursday night, telling the crowd, “It is time for us to start voting

Veterans for a Strong America (VSA) – the group that endorsed GOP frontrunner Donald Trump aboard the USS Iowa in September – “absolutely supports” Trump’s boycott of Fox News’s GOP debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday and says the a debate moderated by Megyn Kelly was never going to be fair.

GOP presidential candidates former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who are participating in the earlier GOP debate on Thursday, say they want to attend GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s event on Thursday night for veterans rather than the primetime GOP debate hosted by Fox News.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. joined Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM with host Stephen K. Bannon on Thursday morning and responded to the recent news that a Super PAC backing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Carly Fiorina’s campaign both offered million dollar donations to veterans if Trump will debate them.

President Obama shed tears during his speech at the White House promoting gun control yesterday but a look at a history of public presidential tears reveals that George W. Bush cried too while at emotional ceremonies.

At least 115 living veterans were declared dead in error over a nine-month period ending April 2015, each losing health benefits until the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs could be convinced that he or she was in fact, not dead.

Former Canadian Armed Forces sniper and Ottawa City Councillor Jody Mitic joined Breitbart News Daily on Friday morning to discuss his new book Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper and how he battled back from a devastating war injury to forge a successful career in politics.

The Veterans Administration hospital in Salem, Virginia–a government run hospital–is banning “religious” carols, Christmas trees and “Merry Christmas” from public areas, according to The Becket Fund, a nonprofit law firm to protect religious liberty.

On December 4, Breitbart News spoke with Taya Kyle—wife of late Navy SEAL and American hero Chris Kyle—about the American Sniper Shootout, which will be held Saturday in Mason, Texas.

The Medina community in Ohio expressed outrage when the local Walmart forced former active duty Marine John Harkness to stand outside to collect Toys for Tots donations for the first time in fifteen years.

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump demanded that CNN, the host of the next GOP primary debate, pay him $5 million to participate.

Wreaths Across America, a non-profit responsible for placing commemorative garlands at the 230,000 headstones in Arlington National Cemetery, was able to reduce its wreaths deficit by more than half in one day, to 7,500, thanks in part to donations from Breitbart News Daily listeners.

Wreaths Across America, the non-profit that has set a goal of placing a remembrance wreath at each of the nearly 230,000 headstones at Arlington Nation Cemetery, is still facing a shortfall this holiday season of about 18,000 commemorative garlands.

The mainstream gaming press isn’t the only group that thinks gamers don’t need to be their audience. This belief appears to have spread to the leadership of a gaming charity that has raised millions of dollars… from gamers. Today’s veterans rely

Serious problems require serious leaders, not career politicians or Washington insiders. We need to identify people with solid experience in national security or job creation, or both, and encourage them to run for local, state and national offices. This is the first in a series of columns about such people. One of the best is Missouri candidate for governor Eric Greitens.

Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart was up to his old tricks again on Tuesday night when he blasted Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ben Carson during a fundraiser for veterans in New York.

Retired Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk almost didn’t make it to retirement, when his lesbian commanding officer relieved him of duty because he refused her order to declare that Americans who believe in traditional marriage unfairly discriminate against homosexuals,

Gary – Well, Ken…Veterans day is here and though we’ve both acted in movies and played men in combat, neither of us were ourselves ever in the military. But I know you have a deep respect and admiration, as I do, for those who serve and have served.

According to the study, cities in California and Texas provide the best living standards for former service members

During Veterans Day week in Chicago, a new transportation service for our military veterans is being launched. It combines the best of both the private and public sector to offer the potential for the nation’s first scalable veterans serving veterans initiative that could transform the lives of many veterans.

The family of a U.S. Army Gulf War veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and committed suicide by cop is being consoled by his service dog.

On November 2, the city council in a small Iowa town voted to remove a temporary memorial to fallen soldiers from a city park. The memorial was removed because an outside atheist group complained to the city that the memorial featured a Christian cross. Only a day after the council voted to remove the memorial, the town voted to remove the council members.

When Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders asked the audience to appreciate the value of the men and women who have sacrificed to serve their country, he received only a smattering of applause.

When it was time for three homeless veterans to be laid to rest, with no loved ones to serve as pallbearers, six Detroit high school students stepped forward, setting up a program similar to one they learned about in Cleveland.

On Friday, Hillary Clinton, denying reality once again, claimed that the Veterans Affairs scandals plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs have been blown out of proportion by Republicans who want the department to fail.

While Tuesday night’s CNN political debate was intended as an opportunity for one of the Democrat Party presidential hopefuls to separate him or herself from the rest of the pack, the best line of the night came from a man who was not even in the room with the debaters nor in the same party.

Let’s talk about the heroes of Umpqua instead of the psychotic killer. 30-year-old Army veteran Chris Mintz was shot seven times by the killer as he struggled to protect students. His aunt Sheila Brown told NBC News he served 10 years in the military, and had just started classes at the college. She also said he was on the wrestling team and had experience as a cage fighter. Several sources say Mintz was stationed at Fr. Lewis in Washington, and was deployed during his Army service.

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the priorities of Washington politicians as “pathetic and absolutely absurd” when asked about his reaction to the Planned Parenthood hearing on Tuesday.

American Airlines courted criticism last weekend when airport ticket takers told a wounded Marine veteran with PTSD that his service dog would not be permitted to go with him aboard his flight home to Virginia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), responsible for overseeing whistleblower disclosures and investigating whistleblower retaliation throughout the federal government, expects to receive over 1,400 “prohibited personnel practices complaints” from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees in 2015 alone.

As Donald Trump supporters left the U.S.S. Iowa on Tuesday, one Hispanic Trump supporter, Jorge Herrera, started a pro-American chant, and other Trump supporters echoed him. Herrera seemed annoyed that some protesters were calling Trump a racist and started to yell back at them, and the crowd of Trump supporters joined in chanting, “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!”

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated of the VA, “we’re going to create a whole new system. We’re going to take the system apart,” “and if they’re not doing the job” vets would be reimbursed for outside care from private

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is joining Veterans for a Strong America to “Make America’s Military Great Again” and deliver remarks on foreign policy ahead of the second GOP primary debate next week in California.