The former Fox News host faced allegations about sexual assault and excessive drinking, which he called smears.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was sworn in on Saturday, issued a statement outlining his top priorities for the ...

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his ...

Pete Hegseth was confirmed as defense secretary late Friday by the U.S. Senate after Vice President JD Vance broke a 50-50 ...

The removal of a portrait of Gen. Mark A. Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, from a Pentagon hallway ...

President Donald Trump's inauguration was filled with sweeping executive orders, a roaring crowd of supporters at Capital One ...

The inspector general found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks mismanaged protocols during his 2024 hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment. In a ...

Another person Biden considered was Michèle Flournoy, an under secretary of defense for policy in the Barack Obama administration who oversaw a staff of about 1,000. Each of them is more ...

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Pete Hegseth has made it through his confirmation hearing and now appears to be on a glide path for confirmation as secretary of defense. The hearing, which lasted four hours, subjected Hegseth to ...

In 1989, when John Tower was George H. W. Bush's nominee for defense secretary, the oath was not ... modest. Had he been under oath, perhaps there might have better answers to allegations of ...

I want to be the U.S. secretary of defense. Don’t laugh ... of the Center for Business and Economic Research and the George and Frances Ball distinguished professor of economics in the Miller ...