The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.

The Pentagon's watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's aides were asked to delete Signal ...

The Pentagon inspector general’s office, which is examining the episode, also has questioned potential witnesses about any ...

Hegseth ordered dismissal 75% of civilians working for Pentagon office that conducts live-fire tests of U.S. weapons systems.

Publicly, Musk, Hegseth, and Trump were united in their dismissal of the story. The president called it “fake news” and ...

Pete Hegseth, a former army major and now America’s defence secretary, celebrates soldiers “with dust on their boots”. But ...

U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to rename the USNS Harvey Milk in a highly rare move.

Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland urged the defense secretary to come to Congress for approval of the jet President ...

Navy tradition and basic decency make clear the beleaguered defense secretary shouldn’t rename the ship. Hegseth is doing it ...

The meeting comes as the Ukraine war intensifies after a resoundingly successful attack on Russian airfields by Ukrainian ...

Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, downplayed the absence of U.S. Secretary of ...

My job is to create and maintain decision space for President Trump, not to purport to make decisions on his behalf.” ...