Quil Lawrence

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Pittsburgh Shooting Update

Sunday, October 28, 2018

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.

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Major Investigation Underway After Suspicious Packages Mailed To Government Officials

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

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.

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Post-Michael: Hard-Hit Florida Residents Consider Whether To Rebuild

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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?

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Rescue Workers Still Trying To Find Hurricane Survivors In Mexico Beach, Fla.

Monday, October 15, 2018

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.

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Kansas City, Mo., Mayoral Hopeful Withdraws From Race Citing PTSD

Tuesday, October 02, 2018

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.

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Kansas City Mayoral Candidate Jason Kander Drops Out, Citing PTSD

Tuesday, October 02, 2018

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.

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Maj. DJ Skelton Retires From Army, Leaving Behind A Legacy Of Helping Wounded Warriors

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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.

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VA Will Try Again To Make Its Health Records Compatible With Pentagon's

Friday, September 21, 2018

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.

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Murder Trial Of Blackwater Guard Ends In Mistrial

Friday, September 14, 2018

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.

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A Vet's Suicide Pushes The VA To Do Better

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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

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VA Hospital Aims To Do Better After Veteran's Suicide

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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.

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Why The Number Of U.S. Visas Being Granted To Afghan And Iraqi Allies Are Down

Friday, August 24, 2018

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.

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An Iraq Veteran, Heroin Addict, Bank Robber And Debut Novelist

Monday, August 13, 2018

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.

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Robert Wilkie Sworn In As Secretary Of Veterans Affairs

Monday, July 30, 2018

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.

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North Korea Turns Over 55 Boxes Of Possible Remains Of U.S. Serviceman

Friday, July 27, 2018

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.

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Trump Faces Friendly Crowd At VFW Convention

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

President Trump received an ovation when he told the assembled veterans that remains of U.S. Korean War dead would soon be repatriated from North Korea.

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Senate Confirms Pentagon Official To Head Veterans Affairs Department

Monday, July 23, 2018

Robert Wilkie inherits a VA that is undertaking ambitious changes in the next year. The department has been in turmoil since Trump sacked his first VA secretary in March.

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Trump's Uncontroversial VA Pick Sails Through Confirmation Hearing

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

President Trump fired his first VA secretary, and his first nominee withdrew. His next pick, Robert Wilkie, is a veteran and a seasoned Washington official.

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Robert Wilkie, Trump's Nominee To Lead VA, Has Relatively Smooth Confirmation Hearing

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Robert Wilkie, President Trump's nominee to be secretary of Veterans Affairs, appears before the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on Wednesday for his confirmation hearing.

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News Brief: Primaries Roundup, VA Secretary Hearing, War In Syria

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

National progressives scored a major coup over the Democratic establishment on Tuesday night in one of several primaries. Also, Liz Sly of The Washington Post discusses the war in Syria.

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