YOKOSUKA (WAVY) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went onboard USS George Washington right after its deployment to Japan. This comes within just a few weeks after two sailors died shortly after ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to reporters while attending the 2025 Easter Egg Roll with his family on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is facing increased scrutiny over new claims that he improperly shared sensitive military information on the private messaging app "Signal." KTLA's John Fenoglio ...

Pete Hegseth was sworn in Saturday as the nation's 29th secretary of defense, quickly joining President Trump's Cabinet after a dramatic late-night vote in the Senate installed him as the Pentagon ...

President-elect Donald Trump may have made a mistake in choosing Fox News personality Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense. However, the nomination merits an open mind. Hegseth is a problematic ...

Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense, two officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) cited rising global threats as a reason for voting against confirming Pete Hegseth as defense secretary. Republican Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Mitch McConnell ...

The Senate voted Friday to confirm Stephen Feinberg, a billionaire investor, as the next deputy secretary of defense ... a bipartisan priority in Washington. Still, in his February confirmation ...