WASHINGTON -- President-elect Joe Biden is expected to name retired four-star Army general Lloyd Austin as his choice to lead the Defense Department, four sources familiar with Biden's plans tell ABC ...

President-elect Joe Biden has confirmed that he has selected retired General Lloyd Austin to be his Defense Secretary — as some Democrats have publicly spoken out against the pick. The issue ...

One witness the Senate ought to call when it sits to decide whether to confirm General Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense is General James Mattis. He’s the only living four-star general to have been ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his hospitalization ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalizations "unnecessarily" increased America’s national security risk, according to a new report from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector ...

A retired general, Lloyd Austin will need a waiver from Congress to serve. President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday officially introduced his nominee to lead the Department of Defense, retired Gen.

Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin III (left) and Pete Hegseth (right) via Getty Images. America’s next secretary of defense could be starkly different from what the country has ever seen before. On Tuesday, ...