WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has suspended the security detail for former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

The defense secretary's media background has played a significant role as the department reels from the Army-involved crash ...

That’s called “jointness,” about which Hegseth knows little. He touted his Army background in the National Guard as a ...

The Senate on Friday night confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, to ...

Readers criticize the vote on the defense secretary nomination. Also: President Trump and tariffs; silencing health officials ...

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth late Friday, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon.

Medical research depends on government money -- even a day's delay in the intricate funding process throws science off-kilter ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth would not say whether Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown would be exempt from the “warrior boards” he seeks to institute to review and possibly fire senior officers he ...

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a ...

Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) cited rising global threats as a reason for voting against confirming Pete Hegseth ... of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health ...

Tulsi Gabbard as director of the office of national intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, the anti-vaccine advocate at Health and Human Services. “Is Pete Hegseth truly the best we have to ...