In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, the last person to step off the plane before the defense ...

President Donald Trump said he supports Pete Hegseth amid the Department of Defense secretary’s latest controversy involving ...

Some 8,700 service members who were fired by the Biden administration for refusing to get COVID-19 vaccines are invited back ...

And when it became clear that hundreds of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrectionists had connections to the armed forces, then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced sweeping plans to identify and ...

Former Deputy Chief of Staff for Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Caroline Zier and Politico White House Correspondent Eli Stokols joins Christina Ruffini to react.April 22, 2025 ...

Lloyd Austin, the former defense secretary and a four-star general with 40 years of military experience, was nonetheless labeled a DEI hire of the Biden administration. Pete Hegseth, the current ...

Then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin argued the mandate was critical to keeping U.S. forces healthy and ready to fight, though the Pentagon dropped the rule in January 2023. Since then, former ...

During the Biden administration, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who created the contact group, hosted a meeting of the group almost every month, alternating between virtual and in-person events.

Buria started the year as the secretary’s junior military assistant, a post he took on last April for Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin. The role — abbreviated as “JMA” — is a ...