Spokane’s Harold Skinner has three daughters. He has grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a French teacher at Lewis and Clark High School for 29 years. But 82 years ago, Skinner was just 18, living in Spirit Lake on the eve of the U.S. entering World War II.
Local veterans advocates praised the Department of Veterans’ Affairs decision to expand coverage of in vitro fertilization to unmarried veterans and those in same-sex relationships amid uproar about the availability of the fertility treatment across the country.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that it will cover in vitro fertilization treatment for qualifying veterans who are single or in same-sex marriages, after it faced legal challenges last year that said its policies were discriminatory.
A lengthy Defense Department review of U.S. government activities related to “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” more commonly known as UFOs, has found no evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence has visited Earth or that authorities have recovered crashed alien spacecraft and are hiding them from the public.
Once upon a time in another America, many considered diversity, equity and inclusion fundamental national values, at least nominally. Now those notions are so reviled in much of America that one senator is threatening the promotion of a highly qualified and praised Air Force officer.
Sara Jemo picked up a can of tomato soup from a wagon of groceries, crossed out the bar code with a permanent marker, then placed the can on a shelf. She repeated the process until the cart was empty and the shelf was stocked before she opened the Fairchild Food Pantry on Thursday.
In the lobby of the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center Friday, a group of veterans, patients and staff watched as two women, Betsy Scheiber and Judy Secrest, were presented with portraits of their late fathers, who both served in World War II.
Psychedelics are becoming so mainstream that the Department of Veterans Affairs is examining the use of MDMA - also known as ecstasy - and psilocybin, the active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms, to fight post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.
WASHINGTON – A House subcommittee on Thursday questioned the Department of Veterans Affairs’ plan to launch a troubled computer system at a hospital near Chicago, after problems in the Inland Northwest prompted the department to stall the system’s rollout for almost two years.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, speaking from home after his latest hospitalization, opened a meeting of US allies with a never-surrender message aimed at reassuring Ukraine almost two years after Russia’s invasion.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was admitted into critical care late Sunday with an apparent bladder issue, after being hospitalized for the second time in a month.
A search and rescue operation located a Marine Corps military helicopter Wednesday that went missing in a snowy and mountainous area east of San Diego, but authorities said they were still looking for five Marines who were on board the aircraft.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that his recent cancer diagnosis was a “gut punch” that left him shaken, disclosing new details about his ensuing medical crisis and asserting that he did not direct his staff to withhold the situation from the White House.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin returned to work at the Pentagon for the first time in almost a month, as he continues to recover from complications linked to prostate-cancer surgery that left him hospitalized for two weeks and provoked a furor over delays in declaring his illness.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin signaled on Thursday an openness to reducing the U.S. military presence in Iraq, saying meetings set to begin soon between leaders from the two countries will enable a “transition to an enduring bilateral security partnership" that builds on years of joint operations against the Islamic State.
