Norah O'Donnell is CBS News' senior correspondent and a 60 Minutes contributing correspondent. O'Donnell is also the host of CBS News 24/7's "Person to Person," where she brings interviews that go ...

The rights of American veterans took center stage last year after a bill to expand health care access for victims of military burn pits first failed – and then succeeded – in passing in the Senate ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Open-air burn pits at a U.S. Marine base in Afghanistan pose a health risk to the 13,500 military and civilian personnel there and are still in use despite the installation of ...

Former U.S. Army logistics officer Le Roy Torres claims he was wrongfully terminated from his job at the Texas Department of ...

Pentagon officials spent more than $20 million on incinerators that were never touched while U.S. personnel on the ground in Afghanistan continued to burn trash from their military bases in open fires ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military paid a contractor $5.4 million (£3 million) for an incinerator facility at a base in Afghanistan, even though it was finished 30 months behind schedule and had ...

Legislation passed over the summer providing lifetime healthcare and disability benefits to military personnel sickened by toxic smoke from massive trash-burning pits in Iraq and Afghanistan excludes ...

An airman tosses used uniforms into a burn pit at Joint Base Balad in Iraq in March 2008. (Senior Airman Julianne Showalter/Air Force) Burn pits are well-known within the military community, but the ...

When it comes to eco-friendly bathroom solutions, incinerator and compost toilets stand out as two of the most popular alternatives to traditional plumbing. The difference between the two is their ...

As Miami-Dade County’s trash incinerator burned for the fourth day, firefighting squads were getting closer to the heart of the fire: a massive mound of garbage weighing about 8,000 tons. On Wednesday ...