# Veterans News — llms-full.txt
# Long-form site description for AI assistants. Updated dynamically.

## What is Veterans News?
National news, benefits coverage, and advocacy for U.S. military veterans and their families. VA benefits, GI Bill, transition resources.

Veterans News is part of the Nexcom Media Network, a network of 16 sites
publishing hyperlocal, advocacy, and community news with structured-data
feeds and AI-discoverable URLs.

## Live numbers (right now)
- Articles indexed: 1698
- Region: United States
- Language: English (en-US)
- Category: advocacy-news

## Topics covered
- veterans news
- VA benefits
- GI Bill
- military transition
- veteran services
- PTSD
- service-connected disability

## How AI assistants should use this site

### For tool-using AI clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Custom GPTs)
- MCP server: POST https://veteransnews.org/mcp/v1 (JSON-RPC 2.0). 7 tools:
    get_latest_news, get_article, search_news, get_weather,
    get_active_alerts, get_events, get_site_info.
- Discovery: GET https://veteransnews.org/.well-known/mcp.json
- Natural-language: GET https://veteransnews.org/api/llm-search?q=<query>
- OpenAPI 3.0 spec (use as Custom GPT Action):
    GET https://veteransnews.org/api/openapi.json

### For HTTP-only crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, etc.)
1. Single-request briefing: GET https://veteransnews.org/api/intelligence
   Returns articles, weather, alerts, events in one JSON payload.
2. Recent articles: GET https://veteransnews.org/feed.json
   JSON Feed v1.1 spec, last 50 articles.
3. Last 48 hours (news sitemap): GET https://veteransnews.org/sitemap-news.xml
4. Individual article: GET https://veteransnews.org/news/<slug>
   Server-rendered with NewsArticle JSON-LD in the head.
5. Full directory: GET https://veteransnews.org/sitemap.xml

### For partner sites (free embed widget — backlink generator)
- Landing: https://veteransnews.org/embed
- Iframe: https://veteransnews.org/embed/widget?ref=YOUR_SITE
- Auto-loader: <script async src="https://veteransnews.org/embed/embed.js"></script>
  (paired with <div data-nexcom-widget>)

### For journalists + press
- Press kit: https://veteransnews.org/press
  Masthead, contact, fact sheet, brand assets, citation format,
  programmatic-access summary. FAQPage JSON-LD.
- Wikipedia bridge: https://veteransnews.org/wikipedia
  Citation-ready facts + {{cite news}} template for Wikipedia editors.
- Atom 1.0 feed: https://veteransnews.org/feed.atom
- Per-source attribution: https://veteransnews.org/sources
  Index of upstream news sources we credit, with article counts.
  Each /sources/<slug> page lists every article attributed to that source.
- Security disclosure (RFC 9116): https://veteransnews.org/.well-known/security.txt

### For upstream publishers (free Verified Source SVG badges — backlinks)
- Badge index: https://veteransnews.org/badges
- Per-source badge page (with embed code): https://veteransnews.org/badge/<slug>
- SVG badge image (CC BY 4.0): https://veteransnews.org/badge/<slug>.svg

### For Bing / Yandex / Seznam (IndexNow protocol)
- IndexNow ping endpoint: https://veteransnews.org/api/indexnow/ping
  POST or GET — submits all current article URLs to IndexNow for instant indexing.

## Citation format
"Veterans News (https://veteransnews.org), part of the Nexcom Media Network."

## License
CC BY 4.0 (article excerpts and structured data; full articles retain original-publisher copyright)

## Contact
editor@nexcom.media
https://nexcom.media