Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and ...

If the investigation becomes politicized or divisive, it could paralyze the Pentagon — and create a generation of risk-averse ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers asked Hegseth for justifications and transparency before any decisions to dismiss senior ...

Hegseth promised to reinvest budget savings in other military programs and jettison civilian workers who are not living up to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that he will immediately begin shifting billions of dollars away from nonlethal ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian employees as the Trump administration’s axe to the federal workforce ...

The firings of Adm. Lisa Franchetti and Gen. James Slife follows tonight's removal of Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint ...

The Defense Department says it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wants answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid reports that President Donald Trump’s ...

WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth on Friday as secretary of Defense ... McConnell said in a statement that leading the United States Armed Forces is "a massive and solemn ...

The dismissals will begin next week, officials said, and could expand to include tens of thousands of other workers ...

Trump removed the military's top officer without explanation as the defense secretary purged the Pentagon's top ranks of five ...