A West Virginia National Guard member shot in a daytime attack near the White House remains in serious condition but is showing minor signs of improvement, days after a fellow Guard member was killed. Federal authorities charged a 29-year-old Afghan national with murder and assault in the case.
Consumer protection groups say veterans are targeted by scammers at a higher rate than the general public, with fraudsters posing as VA officials, benefits experts, or charity workers to obtain personal and financial information.
Hundreds of U.S. veterans who served in Panama during the Cold War era say the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to deny disability claims linked to toxic chemical exposure, despite decades of documented herbicide shipments and pesticide use in the Canal Zone.
A Minnesota man was convicted of wire fraud, mail fraud, and falsifying military records after federal prosecutors said he spent nearly a decade posing as a wounded Marine and Purple Heart recipient to steal more than $140,000 in VA benefits.
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