Pete Hegseth’s Senate confirmation vote is scheduled for 9 p.m. Friday. In the hours beforehand, it remained unclear if he ...

With two G.O.P. senators opposed, Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s pick for defense secretary, can afford to lose only one ...

The Senate is muscling Pete Hegseth’s nomination as defense secretary toward confirmation. The Republican senators are ...

For the last 50 years, almost every nominee to lead the Pentagon has been a consensus pick who drew lopsided margins of ...

Five days after assuming the White House, President Donald Trump is racking up a number of wins and losses after issuing a ...

Senators voted 51-49 to advance Hegseth's defense secretary bid, which has been mired in several controversies. Two ...

The new president will visit hurricane-hit areas in Asheville and fire-devastated neighbourhoods in Los Angeles.

Pete Hegseth has shown no evidence of being capable of managing the Pentagon behemoth.

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President Donald Trump will make his first trip outside Washington since his inauguration, traveling to hurricane-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, and then to Los Angeles to view wildfire damage.

Those questions come a day after Danielle Hegseth, Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law, said in a sworn affidavit that Pete ...