In August 2025, a rumor spread online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth donated $12.9 million in bonuses and ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explains what is ‘front and center’ in President Donald Trump’s quest to make Washington, D.C.

Pete Hegseth had already earned a reputation as a far-right culture warrior. Then he promoted a video featuring pastors ...

Trump invoked Section 740 of the 1973 D.C. Home Rule Act, allowing federal control for 30 days, with congressional approval ...

The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various ...

Speaking to Newsweek, one historian accused Hegseth of forcing libraries at U.S. armed forces academies to "remove books that treat subjects in our history that he does not like," adding: "That is ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said troops will not get involved in law enforcement but would be “proactive” if they saw ...

The president has direct control over DC’s National Guard, unlike every other unit, which is under the authority of state governors.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, is joined by his wife, Jennifer Hegseth, as they walk through the basement of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

On July 29, NBC reported that Hegseth has "privately discussed the idea of running for political office." While the ...

Pete Hegseth’s strongest ally isn’t Trump. It’s Fox News. The potential defense secretary’s candidacy has been boosted far more robustly by his former employer than by his possible future one.

Penelope Hegseth, Pete Hegseth’s mother, said Wednesday morning that her son was not the same man he was in 2018 when she fired off an email accusing him of routinely abusing women and lacking ...