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

President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is generating turbulence at the Pentagon, where his new defense secretary, ...

The Senate just barely confirmed Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary last week. Mitch McConnell’s vote against him in ...

Despite allegations of sexual assault, paying off an accuser, and drinking to incapacitation on the job, Pete Hegseth was ...

Why is President Donald Trump so committed to having the minimally qualified Pete Hegseth at the head of the Department of ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense would be following President Trump's orders ...

Pete Hegseth arrived at the Pentagon for his first day serving as President Donald Trump's Secretary of the Department of ...

President Trump was expected to sign new executive orders focused on the military, including to reinstate troops booted for ...

Pete Hegseth’s confirmation vote from the Senate on Friday night, in a tie broken by Vice President J.D. Vance, was helped by ...

President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to sign three executive orders that would reshape the military, including ...

The orders include reinstating troops booted for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, assessing transgender forces, and further ...

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