Austin, 67, rose to become a four-star general in the Army and retired in 2016 as the chief of U.S. Central Command, a role from which he oversaw U.S. military operations across the Middle East ...

Retired four-star U.S. general Lloyd Austin has made history Friday by becoming America's first Black secretary of defense. President Biden's nomination of Austin, who retired from the Army in ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is facing mounting criticism after failing to disclose for days that he was hospitalized with a serious medical condition.. The Pentagon last week announced Austin ...

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Former Gen. Lloyd Austin, Biden’s Defense Department nominee, would be the first Black Secretary of Defense. Former general Lloyd Austin's nomination has already hit a rough patch.

The Issue: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s “secret” hospitalization after complications from elective surgery. Last month, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had a prostatectomy to treat ...

Lloyd Austin’s qualities may have worked for him as a general, but not as defense secretary December 8, 2020 Gen. Lloyd Austin III, then head of the U.S. Central Command, testifies on Capitol ...

America’s next Secretary of Defense (perhaps) is now on Twitter. On Monday, Defense Secretary nominee Lloyd Austin made his debut on the social network — though he admitted he wasn’t very ...

President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Defense, Retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, answers questions during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Jan. 19, 2021.

Biden names health team to lead COVID-19 response 10:35. President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate retired Army General Lloyd Austin to be his first defense secretary, Mr. Biden wrote in an ...

President-elect Joe Biden will tap retired Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon, Politico and The New York Times reported on Monday citing people familiar with the discussions. Austin, 67 ...

Updated at 9:25 p.m. ET. President-elect Joe Biden plans to name Lloyd Austin, the retired U.S. Army four-star general, as his pick for secretary of defense in his incoming administration, two ...