Pete Hegseth is said to have lost the respect of his senior officers after an “embarrassing” speech in which he railed against “fat troops” and the state of the US armed forces.

Some Democrats are accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of curtailing Congress’s oversight role with his recent order instructing Defense Department personnel to coordinate all interactions

House Democratic leaders, led by Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, are launching an investigation into President Trump's reported demand that the Justice Department pay him $230 million in compensation for federal investigations into him.

Deployment of a carrier group marks a major escalation of U.S. forces in a region that has already seen an unusually large military buildup.

Zookeeper and conservationist Robert Irwin filed a $60 million lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. A rumor that circulated online in October 2025 claimed (archived) zookeeper and conservationist Robert Irwin filed a $60 million lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

In the three weeks since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suddenly called the military’s top brass to Quantico for an anti-woke stump speech, his leadership has fallen flat.

Using the Trump administration’s unofficial moniker for the department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote in the co-signed memo that the Department of War “relies on a collaborative and close partnership with Congress to achieve our legislative goals.

The first, and perhaps most obvious, hint that the story was fabricated was that Hegseth no longer works for Fox News.

As someone who has become accustomed to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s past excesses, I sort of saw the new rules for journalists coming.