Sponsor Message Blumenthal responded that the secretary has failed to explain how he would reach his stated goal of returning the VA to its 2019 size without affecting care. "It simply cannot be done.

VA Secretary Doug Collins appeared in front of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs for the first time Tuesday, where he faced contentious questioning over staffing upheavals at the VA.

Mikaela Mayer continues her climb in ESPN's pound-for-pound rankings, and Lauren Price made her debut in the top 10 after impressive victories. Mayer (21-2, 5 KOs) defeated Sandy Ryan on Saturday ...

CONCORD, N.C. — James L. Dorton Park reopened Tuesday after being closed for over a year of renovations. The renovations were part of a $60 million bond approved in November 2022. The park ...

Marla Townsend, former UAB softball coach and 2024 UAB Athletics Hall of Fame inductee with family In April 2024, Townsend suffered a car accident in Trussville, Alabama, when sitting at a traffic ...

Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Brief, one-time notices of deaths are published in The ...

President Donald Trump's government-wide hiring freeze threatened to wipe out hundreds of studies and clinical trials that are run through temporary VA appointments – scientific partnerships ...

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 ...

The VA secretary confirmed plans to slash his department’s workforce by roughly 80,000 jobs in coming months, saying the moves are needed to reform the agency. Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug ...

The memo sent Tuesday by VA Chief of Staff Christopher Syrek directed agency leaders to work with the Department of Government Efficiency to reduce and reorganize the VA to “achieve efficiencies ...

VA will soon kick off a departmentwide review of its mission, organization and structure, according to the memo, which was obtained by Government Executive. It will work in partnership with the ...

“They’re doing this with people’s lives,” said one VA researcher who lost their job this month. “There’s no, like, ‘OK, we’ll build a new spaceship and put it back on the launch pad.