In all, it was a bruising, 72-hour crash course in the geopolitical realities of a job that critics complain Mr. Hegseth, a 44-year-old former National Guard infantryman and Fox News host, is ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth plans to seek reductions to forecasted military spending over the next five years and shift ...

With more than a hint of snark Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gleefully declared that what had been briefly called ...

Before Senator Thom Tillis voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, he worked with accusers to make the case ...

In his first big turn on the world stage, the defense secretary has already been forced to offer a major walk-back.

US Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, said Thursday that acknowledging Ukraine's borders would not go back to what they were in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there’s “no betrayal” in the U.S. position on ending the war in Ukraine, as the Trump ...

Hegseth said in his first major news conference as defense secretary that neither Russia nor Ukraine will “get everything that they want” in negotiations to end the war, and warned that the war in ...

Speaking at the Pentagon on February 7, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth invoked predecessor Donald Rumsfeld’s 2001 speech declaring war on bureaucracy and “shifting resources from the tail to ...

Pete Hegseth may not have lived in Forest Lake for many years now, but his imprint in Forest Lake history was well ...

WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth on Friday as secretary of Defense, a win for President Donald Trump's new administration after its 44-year-old nominee fended off ...

Secretary of Defense Pete ... Brian Kilmeade whether he would use the U.S. military to combat the cartels, two of which have recently been designated as terrorist groups by the U.S., Hegseth ...