Veterans with deployment-related lung disease had higher levels of carbon-based particles in their lungs compared to healthy ...

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The impact of VA Secretary Collins' staffing cuts remains hazy, not unlike the downwind side of a burn pit, Dan Clare of DAV argues in this op-ed. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) In 2008, I left Balad Air ...

The Biden administration expanded benefits for veterans with cancer believed to be linked to burn pits where tens of thousands of service members were exposed to toxic waste. The new step, announced ...

RALEIGH -- Thousands of American troops say they're in poor health due to an unexpected part of their service. "I have a stomach issue now, but am I going to get cancer? Am I going to get emphysema?" ...

(The Hill) – Democratic lawmakers and veterans’ groups are fuming over a provision in a stopgap federal spending bill passed ...

WASHINGTON — Burn pits and the fight by veterans to get sufficient coverage for being exposed to them while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan is something that we have followed closely for years. Some ...

Two Rochester men sustained lacerations following an assault on Weyl Street Rochester, N.Y. — Two men in their 30s were hospitalized following an assault at a home on Weyl Street, according to ...

You can't tell by looking at him, but retired Staff Sgt. Wesley Black is about to die. He's just 35 years old. And today he's having what he calls a good day. "I could be dead tomorrow. I could live ...