Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has vowed to purge the Pentagon of what he has called “woke” policies and personnel, and to reshape the military’s top ranks.

What will a thin-skinned showman do with an institution central to Washington’s cultural life? One expectation is more ...

The Senate voted Wednesday to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary, teeing him up for confirmation Thursday morning. The GOP-controlled cham ...

The security detail for former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, which was provided by the Defense Department, was revoked Tuesday night, a U.S. official and a Defense Department official told CBS ...

conduct surveillance and provide transportation under Republican and Democratic administrations alike. But visits by defense secretaries are uncommon. In 2018, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's first visit to the Borderland was more than a chance to inspect border operations; it was a chance to bolster immigration enforcement. Border Czar Tom Homan ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited troops at the ... agents who are there to repel an “invasion.” He said that under the Biden admin, agents were “babysitting” and releasing ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will be visiting troops in El Paso, according to a post by Hegseth on X. Hegseth announced his visit to the southern border, along with Joint Task Force ...

Fort Bliss officials confirmed that U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was visiting the Borderland on Monday. His visit includes stops along the border in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, where ...

Kennedy served for several years as the chair of Children’s Health Defense, a nonprofit that falsely claims childhood vaccines cause autism. Former President Biden’s secretary of Health and ...

who has pledged to “make America healthy again” as President Trump's secretary of Health and Human ... the National Institutes of Health fall under the department's umbrella.

President Donald Trump's pick to lead the top U.S. health agency, came under attack at a Senate ... His controversial defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, squeaked by in a 51-50 vote after ...