In August, Hegseth established the Mexican Border Defense Medal to recognize the service members at the southern border. It is identical to a medal awarded in 1918 for troops that served along the border.

A lawyer for the Arizona Democrat warned the Defense Department that any legal action it may take “would be unconstitutional and an extraordinary abuse of power.”

Pete Hegseth was on Fox News in 2016 when he called Trump an 'armchair tough guy.' Trump said the military would follow his illegal orders. See comments

The Defense Secretary reacted after Southern Command announced a new strike on an alleged drug boat amid mounting legal scrutiny.

The Pentagon did not conduct a routine investigation into the impact of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s disclosure of sensitive military information in a group chat on Signal earlier this year and whether it damaged national security – in part because Hegseth never authorized it,

A forthcoming inspector general report finds that had intel shared by Hegseth been intercepted by an adversary, it would have endangered servicemembers, according to a source who viewed the findings.

Hegseth made a trip down to "Rocket City" on Friday. While the publicized part of the visit focused on the new headquarters for U.S. Space Command, the War Secretary's tour also shone a spotlight on U.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s bad week just got worse. That’s after the long-awaited release Thursday of an inspector general’s report on his sharing of highly sensitive military attack plans on the unclassified app Signal earlier this year.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could have endangered troops when he sent messages detailing attack times on a Signal chat, a Pentagon watchdog found.

The Defense Secretary’s history of the 1980s omits some points Trump could learn from.

The report concerns a video in which Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, and five other Democratic lawmakers reminded military members of their obligation to refuse illegal orders.