WASHINGTON – The Senate narrowly confirmed Pete Hegseth on Friday as secretary of Defense, a win for President Donald Trump's new administration after its 44-year-old nominee fended off ...

Hegseth promised to reinvest budget savings in other military programs and jettison civilian workers who are not living up to ...

WASHINGTON — Senators on both sides of the aisle raised new questions on Wednesday about the vetting process for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, pointing to allegations that were not ...

To come anywhere close to Hegseth’s target, the Pentagon bureaucracy will engage in yet another cut drill, with many promising programs falling on the cutting room floor while legacy activities ...

In 2023, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. government spent $916 billion on ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, alongside Polish Deputy Prime Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, visited the Army ...

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he has received U.S. assurances that Washington will not reduce its troop presence in ...

Faced with the prospect of a diminished U.S. footprint in Europe, the European leaders’ meeting is expected to center on the ...

The hastily called gathering was part of a flurry of diplomacy expected to center on Ukraine this week as Trump officials ...

Key European leaders are discussing how to deal with the Trump administration and plans to increase defense spending.

In all, it was a bruising, 72-hour crash course in the geopolitical realities of a job that critics complain Mr. Hegseth, a ...