A current adviser to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth alerted senior officials in the Trump administration of the use of ...

Pete Hegseth was forced to stop polygraph testing his staff after the White House intervened on behalf of an irate Defense ...

An aide to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has left his role, the latest official to leave the secretary’s inner circle ...

Pete Hegseth launched a leak crackdown. Then came Signal messages, resignations, and a quiet White House reversal ...

President Donald Trump's advisers have given up on finding a permanent chief of staff for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, ...

The polygraph tests of Pentagon officials occurred as the defense secretary sought to stamp out unflattering leaks to the media.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s tenure has seen a series of high-profile staff departures, leaving the Pentagon head without ...

An adviser to U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been ousted amid a "staffing shakeup," according to a Saturday report.

Sources said that Joe Kasper, who was until late April Hegseth’s chief of staff, rankled other Pentagon staffers for his occasional refusal to wear socks—even in a meeting with the Japanese ...

Hegseth’s office has lost three other staff members this year alone, including senior adviser Dan Caldwell and deputy chief ...

Justin Fulcher was at the center of two unusual controversies, and officials had speculated in recent days that his days on Hegseth’s staff were numbered.

Hegseth chose a fellow "bro vet," Joe Kasper, as his first chief of staff and put him in charge of investigating the leaks, but he frequently rubbed colleagues the wrong way.