More than a dozen nonprofit agencies that assist ALS patients and support research sent a letter this week to the 43 members of the bipartisan ALS Congressional Caucus after a leaked proposed budget memo from the Health and Human Services Department called for defunding the registry and a biorepository with thousands of lab specimens.

Collins is scheduled to testify at a May 7 hearing of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee about the agency’s spending plan for fiscal 2026. He also will share his goals for the agency for the next four years and is expected to discuss the VA’s plans to lay off up to 83,000 employees by August.

The veteran duo sought to establish a time record for a one-day hike by adaptive athletes on the grueling 47.5-mile trek from the South Rim to the North Rim and back again. After hiking 24.5 miles, it became clear they were not on a pace to complete the route in one day.

An Army veteran single mother from Brooklyn, N.Y., was publicly identified as the homicide victim whose dismembered body was discovered nearly 30 years ago in a Long Island park — in a case linked with the Gilgo Beach murders because of where her remains were found.

In this week’s episode of The BLUF, host Sarah Kallassy takes a look at some ways the VA is committed to doing everything possible to help veterans and their families remain in their homes.

Toft Jessen, who recently celebrated his 104th birthday, served nearly 37 years with the Oakland, Calif., police department. He joined in October 1947 following his military service with the U.S. Army.

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died. He was 88.

If passed, Senate Bill 1256, sponsored by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D- Laredo, would allow free passage to eligible military veterans but only on the 41-mile stretch of State Highway 130 in Austin, Texas.

Over the weekend, Navy veteran Perry Gooch from Center Star in Lauderdale County, Ala., rescued his neighbor from an explosive house fire in what he said was an act of “divine intervention.”

In this week’s episode, host Sarah Kallassy takes a look at ChampVA and how the VA is using VA’s Digital Divide Consult to get Veterans without internet or internet-connected devices connected so they can use telehealth services.