How a Lloyd Austin aide became Pete Hegseth's ‘only guy standing' Story by Noah Robertson • 1h. I n early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, ...

Trump stands by Pete Hegseth amid controversy but called for Lloyd Austin to resign—critics say it’s a double standard. Members of Congress and advocates call out President Trump and ...

The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin rebuked an argument from his possible successor, Pete Hegseth, that women should not be in combat while addressing West Point cadets. “It isn’t 1948. It is ...

Pete Hegseth’s predecessor as defense secretary, Lloyd J. Austin III, started the roughly 50-nation group to support Kyiv after Russia invaded in 2022, but he has given up leadership.

Col. Ricky Buria stands next to Elon Musk during a Pentagon meeting on March 21, 2025. (U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Spencer Perkins) In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to ...

U.S. Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told theGrio, “Secretary Lloyd Austin, a four-star general, and Pete Hegseth, an incompetent and ...