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

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

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

Democrats have expressed concern over the delay and how thorough the report on Trump’s embattled defense secretary pick will ...

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

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, faced some tough questions from Democrats on the ...

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, who had been seen as a key Republican skeptic of Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Defense ...

When President Trump chose me for this position, the primary charge he gave me was — to bring the warrior culture back to the ...