Robert Salesses will serve as acting defense secretary until President Donald Trump's choice for the position, Pete Hegseth, ...

Pete Hegseth possesses the skills, vision, and experience needed to guide the Department of Defense through a critical time ...

Iowa's Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst said Tuesday she will vote to confirm Pete Hegseth to lead the U.S. Department of ...

On his first full day as secretary of state, Marco Rubio is meeting with his counterparts from a group of countries known as ...

The secretary is responsible for making sure those people are able to do their jobs – which, collectively, is to defend the ...

The Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state Monday, voting unanimously to give President Donald Trump the ...

The Senate quickly confirmed Marco Rubio as secretary of state on Monday, voting unanimously to give President Donald Trump ...

President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has not ...

Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida, is among the least controversial of Trump’s nominees and vote was decisive, 99-0.

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) said that Hegseth is “definitely on his way” to getting confirmed for his position of secretary of defense.

Ernst, an Army veteran and rape survivor, had previously expressed concerns over Hegseth’s past comments about women in ...

During the Obama administration, Farkas was a deputy assistant secretary of defense with a focus on ... is to defend the United States, the American people and U.S. interests.