<div><p>Earlier this month, a report from the <a href="https://apnews.com/38334c4d061e493fb108bd975b5a1a5d/AP-NewsBreak:-US-Army-quietly-discharging-immigrant-recruits?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;__twitter_impression=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true&amp;__t

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<div><p><strong>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA</strong> - Earlier this year, an investigation by the Associated Press revealed a disturbing sexual assault problem on some of the nation’s military bases around the world. Since the initial story broke, it seems the problem is worse than originally thought and C

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<div><p>The country’s military bases are dead zones of justice for child-on-child sexual assaults, according to the findings of a lengthy investigation conducted by the <a href="https://www.apnews.com/41da2867897042399f3f9c55cfde3f16" rel="noopener noreferrer">Associated Press</a>. The findings of t

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<div><p>Last week, President Trump shocked some by taking the safe road and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/18/trump-picks-robert-wilkie-next-secretary-veterans-affairs/623150002/" rel="noopener noreferrer">nominating the acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie</a> to fill th

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<div><p>A <a href="http://sapr.mil/public/docs/reports/FY17_Annual/DoD_FY17_Annual_Report_on_Sexual_Assault_in_the_Military.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a> released last month by the Pentagon found that reports of sexual harassment in the military increased from fiscal year 2016, but this 

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<div><p>It was announced last week that the president’s nominee for Secretary of the VA, Dr. Ronny Jackson was withdrawing from consideration amid a slew of accusations of misconduct.</p><p>For his part, Dr. Jackson categorically denies the <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2018/04/25/

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<div><p>In a move that has become so common, President Trump took to Twitter to taunt his adversaries in recent days; this time it was Russia. Russia and the United States are at odds over the poisonous gas attack that the Syrian government unleashed against some of its people on April 7.</p><p>In t

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<div><p>A scathing <a href="https://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-17-02644-130.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer">158-page Inspector General’s report</a> released last week detailed serious problems and “failed leadership” among the VA’s enormous health care system in general and at the Washington D.C. VA M

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<div><p>Across the country on any given night, thousands of the nation’s veterans are homeless. While the VA touts successes in permanently housing these men and women, many more suffer. Veteran homelessness, however, is difficult to break down into numbers.</p><p>According to the <a href="https://w

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