President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, faced a Senate grilling on Tuesday as lawmakers determine whether they will vote in support of the nominee.

CNN’s conservative commentator Scott Jennings gloated over defense secretary designee Pete Hegseth’s performance under a barrage of Democratic slings and arrows during his confirmation hearing ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, and Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee were critical of the Defense Department’s diversity and inclusion ...

Conservatives erupted Tuesday on social media following an exchange between Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., regarding gender identity. "How many genders are ...

Some of the visitors have donned "Veterans for Pete" shirts, while others are wearing shirts that say "reject Hegseth." Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News host who had Hegseth on her SiriusXM podcast ...

WASHINGTON − Pete Hegseth emerged mostly unscathed by withering questioning during his confirmation hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday as Democratic senators laid into him ...

Hegseth repeatedly deflected the various misconduct allegations and instead focused on his own military experience in the Army National Guard as senators determine whether the combat veteran and ...

Pete Hegseth shined today in his 4-hour-plus hearing to become secretary of defense. Right off the top, he talked about his mission to restore the warrior ethos to the Pentagon, to rebuild the ...

For a week in early December, it looked like Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was cooked. Too many stories alleging womanizing, sexual assault, and ...

And just like that, we’re back in Trump World again. Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Forces Committee on Tuesday was partisan in the extreme, predictable as a ...