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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended his tenure and outlined his priorities for the department this week during three separate hearings on Capitol Hill. He faced difficult questions from the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is returning to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for another potentially combative hearing before the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is back on Capitol Hill on Wednesday for more testimony, this time in front of a Senate ...

Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil arrived at an airport in Newark, New Jersey after a judge ordered the Trump ...

For the second time in two weeks, the Pentagon chief didn’t want to say whether he was willing to follow the judiciary’s ...

Sen. Elissa Slotkin criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for not having the “guts and balls” of his predecessor Mark Esper in refusing to send the military to shoot unarmed ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with Democrats on Capitol Hill on Tuesday over the decision to send 5,000 Marines and ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended his tenure and outlined his priorities for the department this week during three separate hearings on Capitol Hill. He faced difficult questions from the ...

In a Senate hearing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced scrutiny over U.S. troops assisting ICE during raids in Los Angeles, raising issues of legality and military involvement in domestic issues. ( ...