“We regret when anyone loses their job, and it’s extraordinarily difficult for department leaders to make those types of decisions,” said VA press secretary Pete Kasperowicz. “But the ...

Cortez was fired last month from his human resources job at the agency - one of about 2,400 employees who lost their jobs at Veterans' Affairs (VA) in the first wave of President Donald Trump's ...

Kennedy Elementary School at 228 Mt. Vernon Ave., Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Berlin Township Police Chief Louis Bordi said. The girl was able to fight off the suspect by stabbing ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs building is seen in Washington, D.C., on July 22, 2019. (Photo by Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images) ...

In an internal VA memo seen by NPR Friday, the VA says it's rescinding Directive 1341, which contains detailed guidance on the kinds of care transgender veterans can receive at VA facilities.

There's a new cliche being parroted at congressional hearings on veterans' affairs these days: "Community care is VA care." Republican policymakers are intimating that private health care provided ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to reinstate thousands — if not tens of thousands — of probationary workers let go in mass firings ...

The layoffs are in addition to the 2,400 job eliminations at the department in recent weeks. VA Assistant Secretary Mark Engelbaum told lawmakers Tuesday that the cuts were an effort to reform the ...

RICHMOND — President Donald Trump on Tuesday named Virginia GOP Chairman Rich Anderson to serve as assistant secretary of the Air Force, where the retired colonel had served for 30 years before ...

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It said it expects the review to be done by June, after which "VA will initiate Department-wide RIF actions," using an acronym for "reduction in force." In a response to a request for comment ...

Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over the Department of Veterans Affairs’s (VA) plans to cut roughly 80,000 employees in the coming months, decrying the lack of ...