The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth as the nation's defense secretary late Friday in a dramatic tie-breaking vote, swatting ...

Trump's success in pushing through his Pentagon chief nomination despite private doubts among lawmakers amounted to a fresh ...

In a mostly party-line result that saw no Democrats vote for Hegseth, three Republicans — including former GOP leader Mitch ...

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Trump hates US trade deficits, loves US tariffs and is mostly indifferent, if not hostile, toward multilateral arrangements including ASEAN.

Days after Trump tapped the Fox News personality Pete Hegseth for defense secretary, Hegseth condemned the United Nations as “a fully globalist organization that aggressively advances an anti-American ...

Senators vetting the nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary received an affidavit Tuesday from a former ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrived on Monday for his first full day leading the Pentagon, vowing to support President ...

Pete Hegseth has vowed to bring his “warrior” ethos to the Pentagon. Democrats had assailed him as unfit for the job, and his ...

As the dust settles on the fight over Pete Hegseth's nomination, his confirmation is emblematic of a larger truth about the state of Republican politics.

Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Thursday ...