WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth didn't rule out using military force to take Greenland and Panama, implying to lawmakers that ...

The defense secretary made some troubling remarks before Congress—even as a Republican representative tried to save him from ...

Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the ...

The defense secretary will be accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine in his first post-confirmation testimony, ...

As Hegseth started to repeat his answer about contingency plans, Turner added emphatically ... markings of any information about those military operations could not be discussed with lawmakers.

And our military to take it by force ... not to show the Pentagon’s hand on its routine effort to have plans for everything, Hegseth danced around the direct question from Smith, leading ...