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 ...

CQ Brown would be exempt from the “warrior boards” he seeks to institute ... thing for the president to rely on people without any background in government for advice about government policy ...

The vote was 74-25, with many Democrats voting no. The Senate advanced the nomination of Pete Hegseth as President Donald Trump’s defense secretary Thursday on a largely party-line vote ...

The FBI background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for defense secretary, does not include interviews with Hegseth’s ex-wives or the woman who accused him of sexual ...

Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and Army ... Donald Trump’s choice to be the next defense secretary. The FBI background check on Hegseth does not include interviews with his ex-wives ...

Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said in a statement Wednesday night that reports "regarding a confidential briefing on the FBI background investigation of Pete Hegseth that I received ...

By Karoun Demirjian and Sharon LaFraniere Reporting from Washington Senate Democrats on Monday said that an F.B.I. background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to ...

Photo: Christian Monterrosa/AFP/Getty Images Americans didn’t learn much about Pentagon nominee Pete Hegseth at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday, but they did learn more about the ...

New questions are being raised about the FBI background check conducted for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, on the eve of Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing.