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Jon Stewart pushes VA to cover troops sickened by uranium after 9/11. Again, they are told to wait 07/26/2024 08:41pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Comedian Jon Stewart and troops sickened by uranium ended a meeting Friday at the Department of Veterans Affairs angry that once again they have been told they will have to wait to see whether the VA will connect their illnesses to the toxic base where they were deployed shortly Veterans lobbied for psychedelic therapy, but it may not be enough to save MDMA drug application 07/26/2024 11:54am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� It was a landmark moment for the psychedelic movement: The Department of Veteran Affairs��� top doctor stood on stage, praising advocates who have spent decades promoting the healing potential of mind-altering drugs. In an unannounced appearance at a New York psychedelic conference Harris will carry Biden's economic record into the election. She hopes to turn it into an asset 07/26/2024 10:33am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� A key question is looming for Vice President Kamala Harris as she edges closer to gaining the Democratic presidential nomination: Can she turn the Biden-Harris economic record into a political advantage in a way that President Joe Biden failed to do? In some ways, her task would Why are there 17 pairs of Army boots lined up outside the White House? The answer has to do with PTSD ��� and psychedelic drugs 07/26/2024 05:00am • In Lafayette Park, just steps away from the White House, 17 pairs of boots sit side by side. They symbolize a grim statistic from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: On average, 17 military veterans die by suicide each day. The art installation is part of a push by two groups ��� Healing Bre 2024 Election Latest: Harris decries suffering in Gaza, calls for cease-fire to free hostages 07/25/2024 07:18pm • Likely Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters that she is ���ready��� to debate Donald Trump and accused her Republican rival of ���backpedaling��� on their faceoff. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a long-awaited White House visit to meet with President 2024 Election Latest: Biden says democracy lies in the hands of voters during solemn address 07/24/2024 09:28pm • President Joe Biden made his first address since his decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is holding a rally in Charlotte and Vice President Kamala Harris asked for support from women of color during an address at a historically Black sorority. Earlier today, t How to Pay for a Nursing Home With No Money 07/24/2024 08:00pm • Paying for a nursing home with no money to spare is a predicament many people eventually face. With an average U.S. life span of more than 76 years, however, you should think about how to prepare. Sorting out the pros and cons of possible payment strategies can be a painstaking process. If you're on Eluned Morgan will be Wales' first female leader as she takes over a troubled governing party 07/24/2024 01:01pm • LONDON (AP) ��� Wales is set to get its first female leader after Eluned Morgan was chosen Wednesday to lead the governing Welsh Labour Party as it tries to emerge from scandal and division. Morgan succeeds First Minister Vaughan Gething, who stepped down last week as party leader amid acrimony and Montgomery County's rent stabilization law now in effect, caps rent hikes 07/24/2024 11:14am • For any renter, being advised of an upcoming large rent increase can be a gut punch. Montgomery County, Maryland's new rent stabilization law is now in effect. Tuesday, the County Council adopted the regulations that allow Bill 15-23, which was approved a year ago, to be implemented. Under the An Alaska veteran is finally getting his benefits ��� 78 years after the 103-year-old was discharged 07/24/2024 12:13am • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ��� A 103-year-old World War II veteran who���s been paying his medical bills out-of-pocket is finally getting his veterans benefits from the U.S. government after 78 years. Louis Gigliotti���s caretaker says the former U.S. Army medical technician has a card from the Veteran 2024 Election Latest: Kamala Harris kicks off campaign for president with a rally in Wisconsin 07/23/2024 08:59pm • In her first rally as a presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris Harris framed the race with Donald Trump as a choice between ���freedom��� and ���chaos.��� Democratic leaders Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Harris on Tuesday, capping off their party���s swift embrace of her Best Places to Retire Overseas in 2024 07/23/2024 08:00pm • Retirement brings with it the possibility of a new beginning. People who are no longer bound to a specific area by work may begin to dream of life somewhere else. If that somewhere else should lead them abroad, expat experts say certain countries rise to the top for U.S. retirees. "(U.S. retirees) l Jon Stewart pushes VA to help veterans sickened after post-9/11 exposure to uranium 07/23/2024 04:35am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Comedian Jon Stewart is pressing the Biden administration to fix a loophole in a massive veterans aid bill that left out some of the first U.S. troops who responded after the Sept. 11 attacks and got sick after deploying to a base contaminated with dangerous levels of uranium. S 2024 Election Latest: Harris says she's looking forward to accepting Democratic Party's nomination 07/23/2024 12:26am • Vice President Kamala Harris had a busy 24 hours after being endorsed as the Democratic presidential candidate by President Joe Biden. She has secured enough delegates to earn the party���s nomination and raised more than $81 million, a record sum for the 2024 political cycle. Harris also spoke Mond Biden aims for more achievements despite the bane of lame-duck presidents: diminished relevance 07/23/2024 12:15am • REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) ��� President Joe Biden says he's ���determined to get as much done" as he possibly can in his final six months in the White House as he tries to beat back a defining force that his lame-duck predecessors struggled to vanquish: diminished relevance. Biden hopes to keep the