When a scandal-plagued top official needs a public vote of confidence from a president, it’s usually a certain sign they’re headed for the exit.

Pete Hegseth was met with a friendly reception from Senate Republicans at his hearing Tuesday before the Armed Services Committee, who signaled they would get behind President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled nominee to be secretary of defense. Hegseth ...

Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley, Navy SEAL at the center of the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug-running boat, rose through ranks to lead all U.S. special operators.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has paused dealing with the fallout from reports of his involvement in ordering a fatal second strike on a drug-smuggling boat to appear on a soft-touch MAGA podcast.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth pushed out four-star Admiral Alvin Holsey after months of conflict. The Wall Street Journal reports that, contrary to Hegseth’s announcement in October that Holsey was retiring a year into his tenure,

Senate Armed Services Committee gears up for hearings on controversial Caribbean strikes while Republicans remain divided on legality of such attacks on drug boats.

President Donald Trump is facing growing pressure to make Pete Hegseth the first major casualty of his second term after the Pentagon chief was accused of putting his own troops in danger. A damning report on the Signalgate scandal reportedly laid the blame on Hegseth for compromising sensitive war plans.

Pete Hegseth claimed that the order for a second strike on the survivors was given at Bradley’s command and that he had left the room at the time

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has now cited the "fog of war" in defence of an 'illegal' follow-up strike earlier this year on a boat alleged to be carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea