Tim Walz and JD Vance need to stop using their military service for political gain. They must to rise to the occasion and honor the sacrifices of our veterans by fighting for the care and support they deserve. The future of our veterans — and the strength of our country — depends on it. 

Former President Donald Trump once again downplayed the traumatic brain injuries suffered by American soldiers in an Iranian missile strike on an air base in Iraq in 2020, describing them as “a headache,” in response to a question at a campaign event in Milwaukee on Tuesday.

A Navy deal to pay nearly $10 billion to build three new warships will help strengthen the shipbuilding industry and efforts to satisfy a congressional demand to have 31 operational amphibious ships, the service’s top admiral said Wednesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris has handed out meals, embraced a shaken family and surveyed Hurricane Helene’s “extraordinary” path of destruction through Georgia on Wednesday. To the north, President Joe Biden was also surveyed the storm’s aftermath in the Carolinas.

While hospitals and health care organizations in the Southeast largely stayed open and functioning during Hurricane Helene to provide essential care for their communities, they were not unscathed.

Up to 1,000 soldiers from Fort Liberty, N.C., will deploy to help get food, water and critical aid to communities still reeling from Hurricane Helene, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.

Isolated and without electricity or phone service since Hurricane Helene inflicted devastation across the Southeast nearly a week ago, residents in the mountains of western North Carolina are relying on old-fashioned ways of communicating and coping.

Hurricanes in the United States end up hundreds of times deadlier than the government calculates, contributing to more American deaths than car accidents or all the nation’s wars, a new study said.

Lawmakers have to resolve differences between the House’s approach, which has conservative measures that Democrats largely oppose, and the Senate’s bipartisan legislation that would spend billions of dollars more than was agreed to in a 2023 debt limit law.

Tennessee state authorities said Wednesday they are investigating the company that owns a plastics factory where 11 workers were swept away by cataclysmic flooding unleashed by Hurricane Helene.

An autopsy from the El Paso County Coroner’s Office shows the 19-year-old died of natural causes. Prior to her death, Koonce had a history of a chronic cough that recently had severely worsened.

Memorials at Luke Air Force Base and Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland will pay tribute to nearly two dozen airmen who died in a helicopter crash in 1975.

A new military specialty would be aimed at helping commandos put emerging technology to use on the battlefield, Army officials said.

President Joe Biden will survey the devastation in North and South Carolina on Wednesday as rescuers continue their search for anyone still unaccounted for after Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage across the Southeast and killed at least 166 people.

A program that helps refugees resettle in the United States has expanded to include LGBTQ+ people who have been threatened and harassed in their home countries.

In a debate that evoked a calmer era in American politics, Tim Walz and JD Vance on Tuesday went after each other’s running mates and sought to shore up their campaigns’ vulnerabilities at a time of renewed fears of a regional war in the Middle East and sadness over devastation from Hurricane Helene.

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday disclosed a plan to establish a grant program to fund legal organizations assisting veterans who are trying to access benefits after they did not receive an honorable discharge.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it spotted two Russian ships and two Chinese vessels passing through the Bering Sea in formation on Saturday, in a sign of the growing cooperation between Beijing and Moscow in the Arctic.

Fort Eisenhower and Moody Air Force Base in Georgia will remain closed through Friday as service members and their families work to recover from Hurricane Helene.