The consultant, Arthur Schwartz, has close ties to Trump’s orbit and helped shepherd Pete Hegseth’s defense secretary bid through the Senate.

President Donald Trump said during his first term, now-Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth would call him and advocate on behalf of those accused of war crimes.

Pete Hegseth, Fox News host and military veteran, is named by Donald Trump as defense secretary. With a background in Afghanistan and Iraq operations and a conservative media career, Hegseth faces controversies over past allegations but garners strong support within the Republican party.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday dismissed as "garbage" accusations that Washington had taken a pro-Russia stance, saying President Donald Trump was pursuing a peaceful end to Russia's three-year-old invasion of Ukraine.

Donald Trump has started trade wars with some of his closest allies as well as with Beijing arguing Canada, Mexico and China are not doing enough to stem the flow of fentanyl into the country

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted Sunday that he’d fired top military lawyers so that Donald Trump’s administration can get away with whatever it wants. During an appearance on Fox News, host Shannon Bream asked Hegseth to respond to a post on ...

Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent at the New York Times joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the fallout from the firing of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown along with other generals and JAG’s at the Pentagon,

Russia has intensified cyber operations against Ukraine and NATO countries, according to previous U.S. intelligence and private sector reports.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists President Donald Trump ’s abrupt firing of the nation’s senior military officer amid a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon wasn't unusual, brushing aside outcry that the new administration is ...

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth has fired back at China after its Foreign Ministry spokesperson made a veiled threat of war in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Sir Keir has continually warned of Russian’s threat to global stability following its invasion of Ukraine.On Thursday, defence secretary John Healey met up with his US counterpart Pete Hegseth in Washington to discuss ending the war amid a pause on military aid and intelligence sharing from the US.