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The rule, published on February 17th, could have lowered a vet's disability rating if medication improves their condition.

More than 20,000 public comments flooded in that the rule could deter veterans from taking medication and that VA benefits aren't welfare, they're earned compensation for war wounds.

Many vets saw it as part of the Trump administration's ongoing cuts of VA jobs and contracts.

Coleman Nee, with the group Disabled American Veterans, spoke at a congressional hearing.

The VA secretary first called the controversy fake news, but then rescinded the rule after just 10 days, saying vets spoke and the VA listened.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

The Mexican military carried out the raid that killed the Mesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as El Mencho, who led the violent Jalisco New Generation cartel.

But a new U.S.

multi-agency group shared key intelligence from satellites and intercepted conversations to make the raid possible, according to a U.S.

official who is not authorized to speak publicly.

Scores of people died across Mexico in the violence that followed the raid.

Mexican officials fear a bloody power struggle to replace El Mencho and take over lucrative networks that smuggle drugs across the U.S.

border.

But again, the U.S.

task force is gathering intelligence and sharing it with Mexican forces as cartel operatives discuss succession.

Quill Lawrence, NPR News.

Los Angeles has the country's most homeless veterans, and homeless vets won a class action lawsuit in federal court two years ago ordering the V.A.

to build housing inside the huge V.A.

campus in West L.A.