Author: Michael

The Department of Veterans Affairs now has an enormous amount of paperwork to correct after a staffer “blindly” approved thousands of disability claims without properly reviewing them for close to two years. Experts said that some veterans whose claims were caught up in the employee’s approval blitz actually missed out on benefits, and its unclear if — or how — the staffer’s rubber-stamping might impact other vets’ wallets.

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Two years ago, Hamas led an attack on Israel. During the brutal assault, Palestinian militants killed more than 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and abducted 251 hostages. Today, around 20 hostages remain in Gaza who might still be alive, while the remains of around another 28 have not been returned. Israel’s response to the attack has devastated Gaza over the last two years, with intensive airstrikes, extensive ground operations, and severely restricted humanitarian aid.

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Hung Cao, the new undersecretary of the Navy, has been tasked with spearheading digital modernization across the department.
Cao was confirmed by the Senate last week as the Navy’s No. 2 civilian official and sworn in by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan has already given the new undersecretary what a press release described as a “wide-ranging cross departmental portfolio” that “unifies the Department’s most consequential levers for rebuilding warrior ethos and quality of service.

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