The Senate on Friday night voted to confirm Pete Hegseth as defense secretary after Vice President JD Vance stepped in to cast the tiebreaking vote. Hegseth’s nomination had been hampered by ...

Readers criticize the vote on the defense secretary nomination. Also: President Trump and tariffs; silencing health officials ...

Kyle Peterson: The Senate votes narrowly with a vice presidential tiebreaker to approve Pete Hegseth as the ... is I'm going to direct the National Institutes of Health to do real science and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth ... hearing: Hegseth, 44, attended Princeton University and served in the Army National Guard ...

Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted against President Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth.

Tulsi Gabbard as director of the office of national intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, the anti-vaccine advocate at Health and Human Services. “Is Pete Hegseth truly the best we have to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth will publicly ... over his qualifications and personal past. Hegseth, a 44-year-old Army National Guard veteran and former Fox News ...

Hegseth would not say whether Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown would be exempt from the “warrior boards” he seeks to institute to review and possibly fire senior officers he ...

The Senate on Friday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth ... shift in the United States’ national security policy and leadership. Hegseth secured his post Friday ...

Tulsi Gabbard as director of the office of national intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, the anti-vaccine advocate at Health and Human Services. “Is Pete Hegseth truly the best we have to ...

Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) cited rising global threats as a reason for voting against confirming Pete Hegseth ... of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health ...