The scrutiny over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership at the Pentagon has been a long time coming on Capitol Hill.

A bad week has gotten even worse for Pete Hegseth, as a new watchdog report from the Pentagon inspector general’s office ...

Donald Trump is still backing Pete Hegseth, despite growing scrutiny over reports that the defense secretary issued orders to ...

Shortly after the Trump administration carried out its first known attack on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean in early ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are meeting their Australian counterparts for annual talks ...

Hegseth reportedly ordered the deaths of survivors of a U.S. attack on an alleged drug boat. The possible war crime now faces ...

The White House placed the decision to launch a second, follow-up Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea ...

Congressional investigations have begun into allegations that a Sept. 2, 2025, follow-up attack on two survivors of an earlier attack was illegal and ordered by Hegseth. Some legal scholars have cited ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is citing the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth found himself in hot water after a social media post that resulted in a children's ...

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Pete Hegseth’s “kill them all” order is rightly drawing a lot of scrutiny. But the whole program of strikes threatens America ...