Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is bidding farewell to the forces and personnel he's led through a tumultuous term.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell Friday to the forces and personnel he has led through a tumultuous term that ...

Hegseth wants to restore honor to Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, the native North Carolinian whose name was replaced at Fort ...

Hegseth admitted there were some big gaps in his knowledge but promised to assemble a highly competent team to achieve the ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Friday that he would vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of Defense.

Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on President-elect Trump’s defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, to divest from thousands of dollars worth of defense company stocks held by his wife, ...

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The nation's first Black defense secretary faced three major military crises, a global pandemic and a personal brush with ...

Johnstown native Richard Verma has served as one of the State Department's top diplomats and its chief operating officer, ...

Combat veteran and former Fox News host Pete Hegseth is among President-elect Trump's more controversial cabinet nominees.

As Senate confirmation hearings begin, here's the latest on who in the Trump administration has, will or doesn't need to be ...

President-elect Donald Trump is poised to nominate Troy Meink, principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance ...