The defense secretary's media background has played a significant role as the department reels from the Army-involved crash ...

Pete Hegseth, a former combat veteran and TV news ... Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called Hegseth's nomination to lead the Defense Department ...

North Korea pulled out in 2003 to pursue nuclear weapons. Pete Hegseth, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of defense, testifies before a Senate Committee on Armed ...

South Korean officials interpreted Hegseth's comment as showing possible U.S. recognition of North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, a status granted only to five countries under an international ...