Veterans Affairs News
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs postponed purchases of cardiac monitors, radiological equipment and pain-medication pumps for patients last year. It didn’t replace old surgical tools, oxygen-delivery systems or deteriorating operating-room stretchers.
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Margaret George, a retired widow raising her three young grandchildren in a trailer in Whispering Ranch, Arizona, says her family wouldn’t survive without federal help to pay for electricity.
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The best chance for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to avoid execution for the deadly Boston Marathon bombing may be to cooperate fully with investigators, or convince a jury he was “brainwashed” by his older brother.
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Claudia Denny said she heard the screams and saw the horror of 18 years ago when she learned about the Boston Marathon bombings.
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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will process almost 300,000 fewer injury-compensation claims from former troops next year than it previously estimated.
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Jason Schmitt lost his $90,000-a- year job at an oil rig in 2009. The bank repossessed his Tulsa, Oklahoma home and the former Army combat engineer went bankrupt. Last month, after moving with his family to his Missouri hometown, he got a Veterans Administration mortgage that lets borrowers buy property just two years after a foreclosure.
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U.S. lawmakers await the results of a Department of Veterans Affairs probe into why an agency employee processed more than 1,500 awards just under a monetary threshold that would require public disclosure of the contracts.
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U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said President Barack Obama’s administration has a plan in place to eliminate a 600,000-case backlog in veterans’ disability and compensation claims by 2015.
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Ginnie Mae, the U.S.-owned corporation that guarantees almost $1.4 trillion of mortgage bonds, is seeking input on the potential issues created by it backing two main types of single-family securities, according to John Getchis, its head of capital markets.
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The Obama administration plans to boost U.S. spending on computer network security, including a 21 percent increase at the Pentagon, after reports of rising cyber attacks and electronic theft of secrets linked to China.
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