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Republican Dan Crenshaw is one of at least 16 veterans who were newly elected to the House in the midterm elections.

For the midterm elections, many candidates in both parties were military veterans, and they relied heavily on their biographies in seeking votes. The results were mixed.

Robert Wilkie is President Trump's second VA secretary; his first was fired after clashing with political appointees. Wilkie insists he's put an end to infighting at the department.

At a synagogue on Saturday, 11 congregants were shot to death. Six more were injured in the attack. The suspected gunman, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, is to expected to appear in court Monday.

Victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue are honored at a community gathering in Pittsburgh on Sunday night.

Eleven people were killed and at least six injured when a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue. The suspect had reportedly made anti-Semitic comments online.

Law enforcement is investigating a series of suspicious packages delivered to the Obamas, the Clintons, and other leading democrats. No one has been injured by the what appear to be pipe bombs.

It's been a week since one of the strongest hurricanes on record devastated parts of the Florida Panhandle, as well as parts of Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia. How are things going?

Nearly a week after Hurricane Michael devastated parts of the Florida panhandle, residents are still trying to patch together their lives, without electricity or potable water. With cell phone service down it's even hard for people to let their loved-ones know they're safe.

Democrat Jason Kander said the abrupt decision to leave the field of candidates was related to post-traumatic stress disorder linked to his time in Afghanistan as an Army intelligence officer.

Jason Kander, an Army veteran and former Missouri secretary of state, dropped out of the race for Kansas City mayor on Tuesday, citing his struggles with PTSD.

Army Maj. DJ Skelton was grievously wounded in Iraq, yet managed to return to active duty and command a platoon in Afghanistan. He has endured more than 80 surgeries and has yet to completely heal. Skelton is retiring from the Army with a legacy of helping other wounded warriors.

The VA is now set to spend $10 billion over the next 10 years adopting the Pentagon's system for electronic health records, but it's not clear who is in charge of the effort.

Eleven years after Blackwater security guards killed more than a dozen civilians in Iraq, the retrial of one of the defendants ended in a mistrial. A court decides Friday whether he will be retried.

Former Army Sgt. John Toombs was thrown out of the residential drug treatment program at a Veterans Affairs center and then killed himself.

Every day in this country about 20 military veterans die by suicide. The majority of those were not getting treatment from the VA, which suggests the VA needs to get more veterans in the door.

During the many years U.S. troops have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, locals have served as interpreters and other capacities at considerable risk to themselves and their families. Many have been allowed to immigrate to the U.S., but the Trump administration has greatly reduced those numbers.

Nico Walker is currently in federal prison for bank robbery. That's given him plenty of time to write his semi-autobiographical novel Cherry, which has received glowing advance reviews.

President Trump swore in the new Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert Wilkie. The VA has been without a chief executive for four months since the president fired Secretary David Shulkin.

North Korea turned over 55 boxes containing, in the words of the Pentagon, "possible remains of missing DoD personnel" from the Korean War. The remains will arrive in Hawaii next week for forensic analysis.