Fast-moving Hurricane Helene was advancing Thursday across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida, threatening an “unsurvivable” storm surge in northwestern parts of the state.
The Air Force evacuated aircraft from several Florida and Georgia bases on Wednesday, and some 3,300 Florida National Guard troops prepared to respond as Hurricane Helene bared down on the state’s Gulf Coast.
There were significant increases in the number of complaints about credit reporting, debt collection, credit cards, bank accounts and mortgages.
Elmer Calvin Smith, who as an 18-year-old soldier stationed at an Army airfield survived the Japanese surprise attack on Hawaii in 1941, died Friday at age 101. Smith was among fewer than two dozen still-living veterans who survived the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Oahu, although the exact number is unknown.
The family of Waverly B. Woodson Jr., a Black combat medic who treated 200 troops during the harrowing invasion of Normandy during World War II, gathered Tuesday in Washington to see Woodson’s 95-year-old widow receive the Distinguished Service Cross he was awarded posthumously for his heroism.
After the war ended in 1945, Hibray flew over Hiroshima to view the devastation and into Osaka, where he purchased an Arisaka Japanese military rifle with a bayonet as a souvenir and had it shipped back to the United States.
The People’s House, created by the White House Historical Association, gives the public a free, interactive way to explore 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, along with six other lawmakers, placed 325 flags on the National Mall to represent and bring awareness to the 325,000 service members who are considered food insecure on Tuesday near the Capitol.
During the annual National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, the first of nearly 1,000 formerly unaccounted for troops from the Vietnam War received long-overdue rosettes next to their names on the walls of the Courts of the Missing to signify they have been identified.
The Dustoffs extracted 900,000 wounded U.S., Vietnamese, and allied soldiers from May 1962 to March 1973. The Army said the medevac crews had a one-in-three chance of becoming casualties themselves.
The Senate on Thursday adopted an emergency spending bill to fill a nearly $3 billion shortfall in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ fiscal 2024 budget, ensuring millions of veterans will continue to receive their monthly benefits without disruption.
An estimated 40 million claims make up a backlog of overdue payments due from third-party insurers and veterans who owe copayments while an online tool malfunctioned. Without the tool, “VA is essentially operating an open cash register,” one lawmaker said.
Senators on Wednesday grilled leaders from the Department of Veterans Affairs on why they were given just six weeks’ notice of a nearly $3 billion gap in the agency’s budget that potentially could prevent some veterans from receiving their benefits.
It takes more than 30 years on average after a service member is initially exposed to toxins for the Department of Veterans Affairs to acknowledge the illness, leaving tens of thousands of veterans waiting decades to receive compensation and health care, according to a new analysis.