John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, said of Hegseth's remarks on North Korea's status as a ...

Unfortunately, the pushback against political correctness sometimes veers into rejecting basic civility — an attitude that ...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) left the Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday after a contentious questioning of ...

Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) hammered Donald Trump's nominee to head the Department of ...

Reed: “The totality of your own writings and alleged conduct would disqualify any service member from holding any leadership ...

Pete Hegseth’s nomination hearing on Tuesday was expected to deliver fireworks — and it didn’t disappoint. While Republicans gave Hegseth the chance to push back against allegations ranging from ...

Awkward exchanges about the defense secretary hopeful’s past were plentiful as Democrats went after the first embattled Trump ...

Pete Hegseth dismissed the allegations as a “smear campaign" while being questioned by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The term “jagoff” is more than just a vulgar insult in Pittsburgh. Here, it holds great cultural significance, but that’s not what Pete Hegseth was trying to convey during his U.S. Senate confirmation ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary faced senators for the first time after weeks of questions from ...

Defense-secretary nominee Pete Hegseth didn’t address allegations of sexual assault in his opening statement. But he did say ...

Defense secretary nominee will publicly face senators for the first time after weeks of privately pushing back on criticism ...