By Helene Cooper Eric Schmitt and John Ismay Reporting from Washington In his three weeks on the job, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed portraits of his predecessors from the Pentagon ...

Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has become the latest ... s nothing stopping these individuals … from obtaining private security,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023. But in a ...

Hegseth is eyeing a move into military family housing at Fort McNair, a historic Army installation tucked away in southwest D ...

The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

“We have a great secretary of defense and we’re very happy,” Trump ... Trump raised the idea of so-called “recess appointments” during a private White House meeting with Thune and ...

U.S. Army base Fort Liberty in North Carolina has been officially renamed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ... change was orchestrated as an ode to Private First Class Roland L.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed ... banning Confederate names by officially renaming Fort Bragg after Private First Class Roland Bragg, who "served with great distinction ...

By John Ismay Reporting from Washington Defense ... secretary. ‘The Boss of Everyone and Everything’: Trump is increasingly trying to enforce his will on areas like the arts, sports, news ...

Then, about a week ago, Salesses recalls, one of his other sons told him something interesting: "Bob" was in line to serve as acting U.S. Secretary of Defense ... worked in the private sector.