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VA chief: Agency has lost trust of vets, public 07/16/2014 07:52pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has lost the trust of veterans and the American people as a result of widespread treatment delays for people seeking health care and falsified records to cover up those delays, the agency's top official said Wednesda VA chief: Agency has lost trust of vets, public 07/16/2014 07:52pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has lost the trust of veterans and the American people as a result of widespread treatment delays for people seeking health care and falsified records to cover up those delays, the agency's top official said Wednesda Concerns in Prince William County over transfer of immigrants 07/15/2014 05:04pm • WASHINGTON -- Prince William County officials are concerned and have unanswered questions after the chairman of the board relayed to them immigrant children may be housed somewhere in the county. Corey Stewart, the board chairman, told county executives at a council meeting Tuesday someone at VA cites progress on backlog; Congress disagrees 07/15/2014 05:02pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs says it has made "tremendous progress" in reducing a disability claims backlog that reached above 600,000 early last year. Members of Congress and the department's assistant inspector general don't believe it.Allison In rush to cut benefits backlog, VA made errors 07/15/2014 03:27am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a rush to cut a huge backlog of claims for disability benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs is making payments to tens of thousands of veterans without adequate medical evidence that they deserve the benefits, the department's inspector gene 911 tapes depict response to collapse of vet 07/14/2014 11:50pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Newly released emergency dispatch tapes reveal further details about efforts to revive a Vietnam veteran who collapsed with a heart attack in a Veterans Affairs hospital in Albuquerque.Two calls were made while 71-year-old Jim Napoleon Garcia lay on the floor as an ambulanc Lawmakers seek lower price for bill on vets' care 07/14/2014 05:28pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Stung by sticker shock, members of Congress are scrambling to lower the cost of a bill to fix veterans' health care amid a growing uproar over long waits for appointments and falsification of records to cover up the delays at Veterans Affairs hospital Pediatric doctor in child porn case gets prison 07/11/2014 03:50pm • ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS AP Legal Affairs Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A former top pediatric cancer doctor was sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison Friday following his guilty plea to a charge of accessing child pornography.Before sentencing, Christopher Pelloski told federal Judge James VA names interim medical inspector 07/11/2014 03:38pm • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Department of Veterans Affairs has appointed a top health administrator to serve as interim director of its Office of Medical Inspector.The inspector's office came under scrutiny last month, after an independent investigator issued a scathing repo Disabled people denied voting rights, group says 07/11/2014 07:58am • MICHAEL R. BLOOD AP Political Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- At a time when election officials are struggling to convince more Americans to vote, advocates for the disabled say thousands of people with autism spectrum disorder, cerebral palsy and other intellectual or developmental disabilities have bee 5 things about the Tour de France 6th stage 07/10/2014 06:18pm • JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press REIMS, France (AP) -- What could be more fitting than a German winning a Tour de France stage in Reims, a symbol of postwar reconciliation?Well, that's just what speedster Andre Greipel did on Thursday, winning Stage 6 in yet another crash-marred affair as Italy's Vince Iraq's Kurds will boycott Cabinet meetings 07/10/2014 04:45pm • QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) -- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's already testy relationship with Iraq's Kurdish minority further frayed Thursday, as the Kurds declared their politicians will boycott Cabinet meetings and authorities in Baghdad suspended all cargo flights to the la VA apologizes to whistleblowers facing retaliation 07/10/2014 03:32am • WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top official at the Veterans Affairs Department says he is sorry that VA employees have suffered retaliation after making complaints about poor patient care, long wait times and other problems.James Tuchschmidt, the No. 2 official at the Veterans Health Administration, the VA's Soda tax's last stand? Bay Area preps for showdown 07/09/2014 09:20am • CANDICE CHOI AP Food Industry Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- If two of the most progressive U.S. cities don't pass a tax on sugary drinks, will the idea finally fizzle out?Sugary drinks have been under fire for years, with many blaming them for rising rates of obesity and chronic diseases. Yet efforts to Watchdog: Retaliation complaints jump at VA 07/09/2014 03:12am • MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal investigative agency is examining 67 claims of retaliation by supervisors at the Department of Veterans Affairs against employees who filed whistleblower complaints -- including 25 complaints filed since June 1, after a growing health care s