WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his ...

The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in ... the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded in a report released on Wednesday. The nearly year-long review ...

she was serving as the acting secretary of defense during these periods.” Mr. Austin resumed his duties on January 5, the report says, but was still hospitalized until January 15. While he was in the ...

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General C.Q. Brown said Austin ... in 2021 becoming the nation's first Black Secretary of Defense. During his time Austin oversaw the chaotic withdrawal from ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalizations "unnecessarily ... from the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (OIG). The Pentagon watchdog’s scathing 188-page review ...

The investigation details exasperation among key aides to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he refused to disclose the extent of his medical crisis last year.

Pete Hegseth has spent much of his first weeks in office focused on culture wars while saying little about America’s ...