U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said wasteful spending is over as he signed a memo to cancel over $580 million in Department of Defense (DoD) contracts. "We're back with another quick update ...

A contentious Senate hearing Tuesday raised questions about how Trump administration officials handle sensitive national security information and communications, including Defense Secretary Pete ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is facing criticism after new photos taken during a training exercise at Pearl Harbor show a tattoo of an Arabic word on his arm. Photos show that Hegseth has the ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is under fire after a magazine editor was added to a group chat where top Trump administration officials were discussing military plans. The Atlantic's editor ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is now the highest-ranking Democrat to call for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to resign over the Signal text chain leak, writing a letter to President ...

Editor's Note: This article is a lightly edited transcript of an excerpt from Wednesday's episode of Newsweek Radio, which you can listen to here: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has emphatically ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday fended off a reporter’s questions about a leaked Signal chat group involving Trump administration officials discussing forthcoming strikes on the ...

In fact, when Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, was confronted with these facts, he attacked Goldberg and did not acknowledge his own wrongdoing. But there is not an officer alive whose ...

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