WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has suspended the security detail for former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

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

Kyle Peterson: The Senate votes narrowly with a vice presidential tiebreaker to approve Pete Hegseth as the ... is I'm going to direct the National Institutes of Health to do real science and ...

The Senate on Friday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth ... shift in the United States’ national security policy and leadership. Hegseth secured his post Friday ...

The Senate on Friday night voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary after Vice President JD Vance stepped in to cast the tiebreaking vote. Hegseth’s nomination had been hampered by ...

On Friday night, McConnell opposed the nomination of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s eminently unqualified and unprepared new Secretary of Defense, and gave the national guardsman-turned failed ...

Tulsi Gabbard as director of the office of national intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine advocate, at Health and Human Services. “Is Pete Hegseth truly the best we have to ...

Hegseth would not say whether Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown would be exempt from the “warrior boards” he seeks to institute to review and possibly fire senior officers he ...

Fox News host Pete Hegseth, who's President-elect Donald ... a religious extremism expert at the Institute for Islamic-Christian-Jewish Studies, a nonprofit research center in Baltimore, said ...

Kyle Peterson: The Senate votes narrowly with a vice presidential tiebreaker to approve Pete Hegseth as the ... is I'm going to direct the National Institutes of Health to do real science and ...