The defense secretary has chastised top military officers and staffers as he seeks to quiet a storm he helped create.

Controversy has plagued Hegseth since Trump first nominated him to serve as the Secretary of Defense — from sexual assault ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas about Defense Secretary Pete ...

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The defense secretary’s inner circle is in disarray, and distrust is growing among civil servants and senior military ...

John Ullyot, a vocal backer of Hegseth, wrote in an op-ed that the Pentagon was focused "no longer on warfighting, but on ...

The Defense Department will resume providing gender-affirming care for service members, a blow to the Trump administration’s ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused "the entire Pentagon" of working against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will not recommend invoking the Insurrection Act ...

The Pentagon’s moves coupled with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s purge of generals represents an about face for the ...

A former Biden-era Pentagon official warned that running the Pentagon like a business is a bad idea that could "backfire in ...