The Senate on Friday night voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary after Vice President JD Vance stepped in to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday committed to getting the Pentagon to pass a clean audit within four years after the Defense Department failed several in a row. During a town hall with ...

Readers criticize the vote on the defense secretary nomination. Also: President Trump and tariffs; silencing health officials ...

As you can see in the charts below, some of Trump's nominees have career paths that would be familiar in any presidential term. For example, Trump's pick for secretary of state, former Sen. Marco ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth ... hearing: Hegseth, 44, attended Princeton University and served in the Army National Guard ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth will publicly ... over his qualifications and personal past. Hegseth, a 44-year-old Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Hegseth faces ... 10 Americans approve of Hegseth being nominated as the Secretary of Defense, a position that would put the 44-year-old Army National Guard veteran ...

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) slammed tech billionaire Elon Musk over his citizenship while attempting to defend the U.S.

Countless Americans in positions of trust regularly manage health conditions ... we must do better in our national discourse. Pete Hegseth, as the nominee to be defense secretary, arbitrarily ...

Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) cited rising global threats as a reason for voting against confirming Pete Hegseth ... of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health ...