Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik / ) Pete Hegseth, the defense ...

An aide to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has left his role, the latest official to leave the secretary’s inner circle ...

President Donald Trump will allow one of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s top advisers to sidestep legal requirements and retire from the military at a rank he held only briefly, apparently setting ...

Justin Fulcher, an adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, said in a statement that he had planned to work in the federal ...

Secretary Hegseth cancels senior Defense participation at Aspen Security Forum, slamming it as promoting globalism, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth angrily shouted at a representative from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government ...

Hegseth has spent vast amounts of time during his first five months in office promoting the social changes he's making at the Pentagon. He’s been far less visible in the administration’s more ...

When President Donald Trump searched for his top Cabinet secretaries, a flair for running a smooth governing machine was ...

Hegseth, 44, is a former Fox News host and National Guard major who served in Iraq and Afghanistan but had no experience in government when he was nominated by Trump to lead the Pentagon, which ...

The New York Times reported that Hegseth, a former Fox News host, had created chaos "unmatched in the recent history" of the Pentagon, and that after he fired three top aides last week and accused ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers a speech during the international ceremony commemorating the 81st anniversary of the D-Day landings, Friday, June 6, 2025 on Utah Beach, Normandy.

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