An Army reservist and friend of the gunman behind Maine’s deadliest mass shooting testified Thursday about his friend’s mental decline, describing publicly for the first time the warning he issued a month before the tragedy unfolded.

Though the Department of Veterans Affairs is under order by Congress to phase out live animal experiments using cats, dogs and primates “with limited exceptions” by 2026, the agency continues to support live-animal research at VA facilities across the U.S.

Jill Biden on Wednesday praised her husband’s advocacy for U.S. service members before she sounded a red horn to start the Wounded Warrior Project’s annual Soldier Ride from the White House lawn.

British army veteran Bill Gladden, one of the dwindling number of veterans who took part in the landings that kicked off the campaign to liberate Western Europe, died Wednesday. He was 100.

Kenneth Aungst, a retired Army first sergeant, was honored by the 7th Army Training Command with its Good Neighbor Award at Tower Barracks in Grafenwoehr, along with nine German citizens for their support of the U.S. Army and local community. He is the first American to receive the award.

More than 80 years after joining the Army, 102-year-old World War II veteran Neil Korn was presented with five medals and awards for his military service to the U.S.

Earl Meyer, a Korean War veteran from Minnesota who still carries shrapnel in his leg from when he was wounded in combat, will finally get his Purple Heart medal, 73 years late.

Veterans and active duty service members suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury or just needing a break to clear their heads have a new avenue to seek help as Soldiers Freedom Outdoors dedicated its new location Saturday at Camp Meridale.

Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76.