U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will be in Fort Wayne next week to headline a summit hosted by Sen. Jim Banks.

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll had only been in the job for a matter of days before he angered his new boss, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Driscoll, an Army veteran and longtime personal friend of ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, launched a new initiative to improve U.S. barracks conditions after multiple poor condition reports were filed over the past few decades.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, center, and Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael, right, tour multi-domain autonomous displays in the courtyard of the Pentagon, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made a show of adopting a new title - "secretary of war" - and calling the agency he leads the "Department of War," its pre-1949 name. At the Pentagon, workers have ...

In early September 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the DoD and its leaders may use the names “Department of War” and “Secretary of War” in certain contexts. The ...

Section 1. Purpose. On August 7, 1789, 236 years ago, President George Washington signed into law a bill establishing the United States Department of War to oversee the operation and maintenance of ...

Journalists can no longer freely enter the White House press secretary’s office, sparking outcry over transparency and press freedom from the White House Correspondents’ Association.