For a week in early December, it looked like Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was cooked. Too many stories alleging womanizing, sexual assault, and drinking on the job were coming in,

During the confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth this week, Senator Mark Kelly got into a tense exchange with Hegseth over his alleged past misconducts, which Hegseth dismissed as "anonymous smears."

The thing about this team of Trump 2.0 enthusiasts? Their almost uncanny toolbox of denial techniques—Hegseth’s “anonymous smears” and Bondi’s “wait, Trump said what now?”—reveals the game here: Treat everything Donald Trump has said about what he plans to do with the Justice Department,

Hegseth argued that the flag and the Pledge of Allegiance were used as a "forgery" by progressives to substitute allegiance to the state for faith: “The progressives had the tar

Donald Trump’s choice for defense secretary is heading into a potentially explosive Senate confirmation hearing.

President-elect Donald Trump has stood behind Pete Hegseth, his controversial nominee for secretary of Defense.

Sen. Joni Ernst said she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense, making the controversial nominee's path to the helm of the Pentagon more likely.

Trump had been indicted in August 2023 on charges of working to overturn the election, but the case was delayed by appeals and ultimately significantly narrowed by a conservative-majority Supreme Court ... prosecution. Pete Hegseth is preparing to face ...

Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack the same year she met with the Syrian strongman, to which Trump said at the time: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme ... to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case, the justice said Wednesday. What Americans think about Pete Hegseth, Trump ...

This week in politics, President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address, the Senate conducted confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's nominees, the Supreme Court upheld the looming TikTok ban, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire, Trump's inauguration was moved indoors and more.

Pete Hegseth, nominated by Trump for defence secretary, pledges to instil a 'warrior culture' at the Pentagon amid controversy during his confirmation hearing.