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N27NATIONALTHE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2015MASSACRE IN OREGONTHE NEW YORK TIMESSource: Government and law enforcement officialsHow They Got Their GunsCriminal histories and documented mental health problems did not [...]

WASHINGTON -- Administrators at 13 health care facilities run by the Department of Veterans Affairs have lied to investigators looking into the extent of waiting-list manipulation and other improprieties, the [...]

WASHINGTON -- The new secretary of Veterans Affairs said Monday that the department needed to hire ''tens of thousands of new doctors, new nurses, new clinicians'' -- emphasizing the significance [...]

LUMBERTON, N.C. -- The most memorable moment of the trial that put Henry McCollum and Leon Brown behind bars for three decades for a hideous 1983 rape and murder was [...]

An investigation by the watchdog office for the Department of Veterans Affairs has been unable to substantiate allegations that 40 veterans may have died because of delays in care at [...]

During his first interview with the general leading an investigation into his capture by the Taliban, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Wednesday described details of his disappearance from his tiny combat [...]

The Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to confirm Robert A. McDonald, the 61-year-old former chief executive of Procter & Gamble, to take the helm of the sprawling and embattled Department [...]

After nearly drowning as a child, Robert McDonald was so terrified of water that despite earning dozens of Boy Scout merit badges, he refused to take the swim test to [...]

WASHINGTON -- House and Senate negotiators announced an agreement Monday on legislation that would allocate about $17 billion to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs' sprawling and beleaguered health care [...]

House and Senate negotiators reached agreement during the weekend on a legislative package intended to stabilize the Department of Veterans Affairs' sprawling and embattled health care system, according to people [...]

Fixing the problems that led to the waiting-list scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs will cost $17.6 billion over the next three years, the agency's acting secretary told lawmakers [...]

The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs' medical investigation unit has stepped down, the department announced Wednesday, just days after a federal watchdog sharply criticized the department for failing [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Veterans Health Administration has a corrosive culture that has led to poor management, a history of retaliation toward employees, cumbersome and outdated technology, and a shortage of [...]

In a blistering letter sent to President Obama on Monday, the head of the agency that investigates whistle-blower complaints in the federal government criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs for [...]

All of the 470 senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs received annual ratings over the last four years indicating that they were ''fully successful'' in their jobs or [...]

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl spent four weeks in basic training with the United States Coast Guard in early 2006 before he was given an administrative discharge, military officials said Wednesday. The [...]

More than 57,000 patients have been waiting more than three months for medical appointments at hospitals and clinics run by the Department of Veterans Affairs, and nearly 64,000 others have [...]

After his fourth combat tour, to Afghanistan in 2011, Sgt. First Class Michael B. Lube, a proud member of the Army Special Forces, came home alienated and angry. Once a [...]

WASHINGTON -- Eric Shinseki resigned as secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday, leaving behind a sprawling bureaucracy embroiled in scandal and burdened with a decades-old legacy of [...]

Dr. Phyllis Hollenbeck, a primary care physician, took a job at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Jackson, Miss., in 2008 expecting fulfilling work and a lighter patient load than [...]

In the first confirmation that Department of Veterans Affairs administrators manipulated medical waiting lists at one and possibly more hospitals, the department's inspector general reported on Wednesday that 1,700 patients [...]

WASHINGTON -- One day after deflecting calls from unhappy senators to shake up his leadership team, Eric Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs, ousted the department's soon-to-retire head of health [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Department of Veterans Affairs' inspector general is working with federal prosecutors who are trying to determine whether criminal violations occurred at a medical center in Phoenix accused [...]

WASHINGTON -- For many years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been criticized for requiring veterans to wait long periods for medical appointments, and for having no foolproof system for [...]

A House committee voted Thursday to subpoena the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Eric Shinseki, and other top department officials, stepping up scrutiny of the agency amid allegations [...]

When the commander of the American Legion, Daniel Dellinger, asked the secretary of veterans affairs, Eric Shinseki, last month about why no one in his department had been fired despite [...]

Two top administrators at the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system in Phoenix have been placed on leave at the request of the department's inspector general, who is investigating [...]

Two veterans groups and a Yale legal clinic sued the Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday, charging that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder from sexual assaults during their service have [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Bringing an end to a closely watched military sexual misconduct trial, a judge on Thursday reprimanded Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair for, among other offenses, mistreating [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- On the eve of a decision about his sentence on sexual misconduct and other charges, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair on Wednesday tearfully apologized to the [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- When Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair left command of the 172nd Infantry Brigade in 2010, soldiers put on a raunchy skit at his farewell party. One [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- At a military courtroom here on Monday, two former lovers, now enemies, told their stories. Seated at the defense table in a dress blue uniform and [...]

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The senior Army officer prosecuted in the military's most closely watched sexual assault case, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, has agreed to plead guilty to sharply reduced [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- The most important sexual assault prosecution in the military came apart on Monday. But cracks had appeared two months earlier in the same North Carolina military [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- In a series of phone calls and emails on Tuesday, military officials and lawyers for Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair began their first full day of [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- The military judge overseeing the court-martial of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair on sexual assault charges brought the trial to a halt on Monday, suggesting that [...]

Lawyers defending Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair on sexual assault charges are renewing claims that the case against him has been tainted by the influence of senior officials in the [...]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Hoping to narrow his court-martial to a showdown with a woman who accused him of sexual assault, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair said on Wednesday that [...]

As one major battle over sexual assault in the military plays out in North Carolina this week, another is set to unfold in Washington. At Fort Bragg, Army prosecutors will [...]

In new court papers, Army officials have acknowledged that the lead prosecutor in the court-martial of a brigadier general accused of sexual misconduct believed that the most serious charges would [...]

One week after the lead prosecutor in the court-martial of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair abruptly quit the case, defense lawyers have asked a military judge to dismiss sexual misconduct charges [...]

Eric J. Barron, the president of Florida State University and a nationally known climatologist, was named on Monday as the president of Penn State University, which has spent the past [...]

The military's most closely watched sexual misconduct prosecution has been thrown into turmoil after the Army's lead prosecutor abruptly left the case this week, less than a month before the [...]

Adam Banotai was a 21-year-old sergeant and squad leader in the Marine Corps during the 2004 invasion of Falluja, a restive insurgent-held city in Iraq. His unit -- which had [...]

An explosion and fire on Wednesday destroyed a Minneapolis building that housed 10 apartments and a grocery, injuring at least 14 people, the authorities said. Most of injuries were burns [...]

The superintendent and three current or former city school officials in Steubenville, Ohio, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges filed following a grand jury investigation of the August 2012 [...]

Texas, Oklahoma and West Virginia are now complying with an order from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel requiring state National Guard units to process federal marriage benefits for same-sex spouses of [...]

On the morning of Sept. 3, the first day the Pentagon said they could, Alicia Butler and her wife, Judith Chedville, who is a Texas Army National Guard officer, went [...]

WALTHAM, Mass. -- It was the most brazen crime in the memory of this Boston suburb: three men murdered with knife slashes to their throats in a second-floor apartment at [...]

BOSTON -- In his first public appearance since he was captured hiding in a boat in a Boston suburb almost three months ago, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the [...]