President Donald Trump said during his first term, now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth would call him and advocate on behalf of those accused of war crimes.

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are under the gun by a federal judge to prove their claims about transgender soldiers in the military. In a court filing last week, the government claimed "any service member or recruit who has been diagnosed with or treated for gender dysphoria is disqualified from serving — unless they

Donald Trump is shown on video asking Fox News host Lawrence Jones to gush about the returning president’s first Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, moments after it ended. (Watch the clip below.) “Lawrence,

The defense secretary’s told Mexican security officials the U.S. was ready to take unilateral action against the country’s drug cartels.

Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent at the New York Times joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the fallout from the firing of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown along with other generals and JAG’s at the Pentagon,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commented on reports of a "list" of officers he plans to remove from the Pentagon during an interview on "FOX News Sunday." SHANNON BREAM: OK. I got to ask you about this rumored list of people that you allegedly put together that were all going to be cleaned out.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called criticisms of President Donald Trump's pause on Ukraine aid "all garbage" despite admitting that the policy appeared to some to be "pro-Russia." Hegseth was asked about the pause in military aid for Ukraine Thursday during a meeting with British Defense Secretary John Healey.

Five former secretaries of defense criticize President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a letter to Congress.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to pause cyber and information operations against Russia as Trump seeks to bring Putin to the negotiating table to end war in Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Guantanamo on Tuesday, where he’ll visit the detention facility and the migrant operations center. There were 178 deported migrants at the facility until late last week when almost all of them were transported to their home country of Venezuela.