Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a review into how officers will be promoted and selected for command that will ...

Internal emails released to BI show West Point staffers had to query an "out-of-use database" to find the record.

Since January, the defense secretary also has ordered the Pentagon to review combat standards, disqualifying medical ...

President Donald Trump greets Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during an event at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Mich., April 29, 2025.

The changes seem unlikely to impact common medical waivers for conditions such as vision and attention-deficit hyperactivity ...

I must confess that I did not have Pete Hegseth as Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary on my bingo card. I was aware that he was a regular on Fox News, but I was not really familiar with him.

The Republican and Democratic heads of a U.S. congressional committee for strategic competition with China have written to ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, told lawmakers on Tuesday that women in the military should be able to serve in combat jobs if they meet what he called ...

The nomination of Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, former captain in the Army National Guard and President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning choice for defense secretary, has sparked concerns about ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says military bases in Indiana and New Jersey could house detained immigrants without ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine ...