The Armed Services Committee is expected to hold Hegseth's confirmation hearing on Tuesday, ahead of President-elect Trump's ...

Senate Democrats slam “significant gaps and inadequacies” in the background vetting of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to ...

The FBI background check, which followed parameters set by the Trump transition team, may have defied standard protocol by ...

The report doesn't offer material from Hegseth's ex-wives or a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. Hegseth has ...

Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the FBI’s background check of ...

New questions are being raised about the FBI background check conducted for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the ...

He can communicate so well to the American people," Waltz said, adding that Hegseth can articulate "why we need what we need ...

Scarborough floated the question as to whether Trump team “directed the FBI” to “not talk to the people” who may have ...

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed ...

The former combat veteran and TV news show host says he will be a “change agent” and a “warrior” for the department.