Despite allegations of sexual assault, paying off an accuser, and drinking to incapacitation on the job, Pete Hegseth was confirmed as President Donald Trump's secreta ...

How ironic then that Trump would nominate a former talk show host as Defense secretary just a few years later. The U.S. military has "been honed into a machine of lethal moving parts that you ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark ...

Within hours of his inauguration, Mr. Trump began to pull security details from nearly a half-dozen people who had served in ...

The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth on Friday as secretary of Defense, a win for President Donald Trump's new administration. Hegseth is a combat veteran who served in the Army National ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked federal security protection for former U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the New ...

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth addressed the media for the first time since being sworn in and vowed to carry out President Donald Trump’s orders “swiftly and without excuse.” Hegseth was confirmed on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has not yet been confirmed by the Senate. Robert Salesses ...

Jan. 14, 7:17 a.m.Trump wished Hegseth luck in a Truth Social post ahead of the hearing, writing that he “will make a GREAT Secretary of Defense” and that he has Trump’s “Complete and ...

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, was unable to name a single country in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations during his confirmation hearing Tuesday—even ...