VA News Releases

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 1 · RSS feed · Department of Veterans Affairs

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What this source is

The Department of Veterans Affairs provides health care, benefits, and memorial services to veterans. This WordPress feed carries VA news releases and feature stories with teaser-length descriptions (30 most recent items, ~140 characters each; article pages extract at ~6,000 characters).

Identity and registry record

Registry id

va-newsroom

Agency / parent organization

Department of Veterans Affairs

Branch

executive

Type

RSS feed

Status

active

Tier

1

URL (feed)

https://news.va.gov/feed/ (opens in a new tab)

URL (home)

https://news.va.gov/ (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-07-26

Registry notes

Probed 2026-07-26: RSS verified end-to-end — 30 items, avg description 144 chars, sample article extracted (6366 chars text). Sampled item was a feature story, not a press release — the feed mixes both; a content evaluation should decide filtering. Email sibling registered 2026-07-29: va-email (GUIDE §3 email class; the web status here is unchanged).

How we ingest it

Channel

RSS feed

Method

Would poll the VA news site RSS feed daily for new items.

Poll cadence

about every 60 minutes while the collector runs

Request budget

the agency class: at most 1,500 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 43 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-08-03; 1 of 238 request(s) to news.va.gov returned no content.

This label has held since 2026-08-03T18:46:01Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-08-03T19:51:47Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day