Senate committees swiftly approved Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary, John Ratcliffe to head the Central Intelligence Agency, Marco Rubio to lead the State Department and others after President ...

Pete Hegseth was sworn in to lead the Department of Defense on Saturday, after a narrow vote in the Senate. The vote on Friday night was initially 50-50, with Vice President JD Vance then casting the ...

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth late Friday, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon.

Pete Hegseth was confirmed after Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote in support of his nomination. See how your senators voted.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday defended the purge of top-level military officials amid blowback to the Friday night firings. The firing of the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. CQ ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth firings of Army, Navy and Air Force JAGs as ensuring "they don't exist to be roadblocks to... anything that happens." ...

Hegseth also said Wednesday that Ukraine returning to its prewar borders—before Russia annexed Crimea in 2014—would be ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending President Donald Trump’s firing of the nation’s senior military officer and a wave of top dismissals at the Pentagon, insisting that they weren’t unusual ...

Defense Secretary Hegseth was asked on Friday about the possibility of the U.S. sending troops to Ukraine shortly after Vice ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Sunday that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was “not the right man for the moment” and praised President Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sent a message to NATO’s European members on Wednesday that the U.S. is not “primarily ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Belgium last week to participate in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group — a ...