Following a slew of negative headlines, Hegseth oversaw a purge of his handpicked top aides—including Dan Caldwell, Colin ...

Under-fire Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has plastered the walls of the Pentagon with photographs of his ever-present ...

Hegseth threatened top staff with polygraph tests following reports that the Pentagon invited Elon Musk for a briefing on ...

President Donald Trump will meet with The Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group ...

President Vance are standing by Hegseth despite the swirling controversy over his handling of the Defense Department.

Pete Hegseth drilled for hours last week in a mock hearing room with Republican senators playing Democrats, preparing for what is expected to be a contentious confirmation hearing for the defense ...

Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) focused on Pete Hegseth’s lack of experience with audits at two veterans organizations he led. “Yes or no, did you lead an audit?” asked Duckworth, a military ...

Taliban fighters in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Victor J. Blue for The Wall Street Journal) The Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was an embarrassment to the U.S. military and begot ...