Vice President Vance defended new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling him a “disrupter” who will prove “incredibly necessary.” Vance joined CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be Defense secretary, appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) If you need help with the Public File, call (954) 364-2526.

The Senate on Thursday voted to advance Pete Hegseth's nomination to be President Donald Trump's defense secretary, putting him on a path to final confirmation at the end of the week.

President Donald Trump was expected to sign a flurry of new executive orders focused on the military Monday, including to reinstate troops booted for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, assess transgender forces and further outline new rollbacks in diversity programs,

President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks in Las Vegas as the administration pushes his immigration agenda.

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization with nearly 2.1 million service members, about 780,000 civilians and a budget of $850 billion.

Pete Hegseth has officially been confirmed as the next U.S. Secretary of Defense after a tense 50-50 vote in the Senate, with Vice President JD Vance stepping in to break the tie. The confirmation marks a significant victory for President Donald Trump,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's first day at the Pentagon is expected to include an array of executive orders, including "removing DEI inside the Pentagon, reinstating troops who were pushed out because of Covid mandates" and an "Iron Dome for America.

Advocacy groups are preparing to file the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order revising policy on transgender troops that likely sets the stage for their ban in the armed forces.

President Donald Trump said Monday he would sign an executive order to start building an "Iron Dome" air defense system for the United States, like the one that Israel has used to intercept thousands of rockets.

Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, paid $50,000 to the woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017, according to answers he provided to a senator during ...