Among them: whether Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth or others face criminal liability for any of the attacks. Those attacks killed people alleged to have been involved in illegal narcotics trafficking.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was condemned on Friday by a non-governmental group of military justice experts who said he had committed the "worst-case scenario." NIMJ, which bills itself as "the only non-governmental organization in the United States to educate about and encourage a fair court-martial and military justice system,

Trump’s choice—canning Hegseth or letting him stay on—could affect civilian–military relations for decades to come, demoralizing countless officers and enlisted personnel while emboldening others to violate a variety of their oaths.

Hegseth ordered the deadly Sept. 2 military strike on a suspected drug-running vessel in the Caribbean Sea, but did not direct the killing of any survivors of the initial attack, according to a

The four-star should be court-martialed and charged with a war crime along with Hegseth. The pardoning of the former president of Honduras should prove these actions are not about

Colin Jost recently stepped away from the " Weekend Update " desk to reprise his role as an angry, aggro Pete Hegseth.

I fully support that strike,” Hegseth said during his remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday. “I would have made the same call myself.”

Like a turtle on its back, Pete Hegseth is floundering.

A federal appeals court sided with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday, ruling the U.S. military can exclude trans members from serving.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled his department’s new AI chatbot for military personnel, GenAI.mil. Almost immediately, the bot called a “hypothetical” situation where the government orders a strike on a suspected drug-smuggling boat and then double-taps said boat to kill the survivors, “unambiguously illegal.”