Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has extended the deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., through February, a Defense Department official confirmed to The Hill. The deployment of more than 2,000 service members was set to expire at the end ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new task force designed to improve the living conditions in barracks across the military that will look to work with private contractors. Hegseth said he gave the task force a “mandate” to develop a ...

Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has joined a near-unanimous outpouring of news organizations rejecting new rules for journalists based in the Pentagon. Fox signed on to a statement with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN saying they ...

The Defense Department is significantly changing its policy of interacting with Congress, according to a new, five-page memo obtained by NBC News. The memo, whose authenticity was confirmed by a Defense Department official, instructs all Pentagon personnel ...

“From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: Warfighting,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Sept. 30, to an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of America’s generals and admirals in Quantico, Virginia.