Tag: Virginia

The company cited losses and uncertainty ahead. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Aetna to pull out of Virginia’s Obamacare exchange

Kimberly Leonard · May 3, 2017 7:36 pm

''Maryland got the life sciences," former Democratic Rep. Jim Moran said about the government-driven boom in the D.C. suburbs, "and Virginia got the death sciences." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

The revolving door spins at the military-industrial lobby

Timothy P. Carney · May 2, 2017 1:17 pm

National Governors Association Chair Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe speaks at a dinner reception for the governors during the annual National Governors Association winter meeting Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, at the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Washington Secrets

2020 hopeful McAuliffe to Mexico to promote trade targeted by Trump

Paul Bedard · May 1, 2017 9:43 pm

President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order on "Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection" at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump signs executive action aimed at VA accountability

Sarah Bedford · April 27, 2017 9:18 pm

The VA has also promoted the employee's books on its website, which some are saying this amounts to taxpayers helping a Trump opponent sell her books. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

VA defends employee’s anti-Trump tweets, book plugs as ‘freedom of speech’

Pete Kasperowicz · April 25, 2017 4:01 am

The Veterans Affairs secretary on Monday said, "Somebody will answer the phone." (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Veterans Affairs: Less than 1 percent of calls to suicide hotline go unanswered

Anna Giaritelli · April 24, 2017 10:02 pm

Shulkin talked about how the shutdown threat could impact veterans in an interview with CBS. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

VA Secretary David Shulkin: Potential government shutdown poses ‘no risk’ to veterans

Ryan Lovelace · April 22, 2017 3:20 pm

Nearly 77,000 addresses were identified by a "bad address indicator" in the VA's system. Another 54,000 letters were not accepted by software. And more than 98,000 letters were "undeliverable." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Almost half of VA’s enrollment letters to veterans never got delivered in 2016

Pete Kasperowicz · April 21, 2017 5:17 pm

Spc. Jeremy Darrell Tomlin, 22, of Chapel Hill, N.C., died at the scene when the helicopter crashed Monday afternoon on a golf course in Maryland. (Rebecca Updegrave Cline via AP)

National Security

Memorial service Friday for soldier killed in Black Hawk crash

Travis J. Tritten · April 19, 2017 9:41 pm

The Veterans Choice Improvement Act removes barriers that Congress placed around the original "choice" initiative and eliminates an expiration date that would have shuttered the program in August. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack)

Trump signs bill allowing veterans to seek care outside broken VA system

Sarah Bedford · April 19, 2017 3:53 pm

Spc. Jeremy Darrell Tomlin, 22, of Chapel Hill, N.C., died at the scene when the helicopter crashed Monday afternoon on a golf course in Maryland. (Rebecca Updegrave Cline via AP)

Army says 1 dead, 2 injured in Maryland helicopter crash

Associated Press · April 17, 2017 10:29 pm

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Wednesday launched a supplemental website meant to provide veterans with a tool to access quality of care data and patient wait time in real time. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

VA just launched a website to track medical wait times

Anna Giaritelli · April 13, 2017 2:58 am