Trump's Defence Secretary, who faced claims over drinking and sexual misconduct, now finds himself at the heart of one of America's most reckless national security breaches

More: He thought Pete Hegseth's texts about bombing Yemen were fake. So he waited and watched. Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the committee, said the Pentagon Inspector General will be asked to examine why sensitive information about military ...

WASHINGTON: The US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is under investigation after using the messaging app Signal to discuss plans for airstrikes on Yemen, raising questions over security

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under close scrutiny as Republican lawmakers criticize his handling of sensitive military information in a group chat with other administration officials that

Republican and Democratic leaders on the Senate Armed Services Committee are requesting a formal investigation into the Signal chat scandal.

The information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed in the Signal chat of top Trump ... Wicker said on Wednesday that he and the top Democrat on the panel, Sen. Jack Reed, are formally asking the administration for an Inspector General report on ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has moved to the center of the storm over a Signal group chat scandal, seeking to beat back questions about whether he shared confidential military plans and put

Of the more than dozen senior U.S. officials on a Signal text chain that was inadvertently leaked to a journalist, Hegseth was the ... telling Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., that she would refrain ...