By Helene Cooper Eric Schmitt and John Ismay Reporting from Washington In his three weeks on the job, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed portraits of his predecessors from the Pentagon ...

a senior defense official told CNN. Title 10 section 129a of the US code governing civilian personnel management in the armed forces says that the secretary of defense “may not reduce the ...

Newly appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claims his family ... Total sham,” Hegseth wrote on his official X account Monday, including a photo of an IRS document addressed to him and ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has signed a memorandum ... “The renaming process will include updating all official documentation, signage, and digital platforms in a deliberate and phased ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also requested the ... On Inauguration Day, Milley's official portrait as Joint Chiefs chairman was removed from the walls of the Pentagon. Several days later ...

Across the department, tens of thousands of civilian employees are considered probationary and eligible to be fired, the senior defense official said. CNN has reached out to the Office of the ...

Computers at the State Department, which has been led by new Secretary of State Marco Rubio ... to collect and transmit U.S. national defense information to unauthorized recipients.

A senior Pentagon official on Wednesday acknowledged the ... In a statement, Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Salesses said the cuts were being conceived to pay for other Trump ...