A watchdog investigation into outgoing Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization in 2024 found that his secretive hospital stay resulted in heightened national security risk, in part ...

Third top Pentagon official put on leave pending leak investigation 01:56. The week of turmoil affecting the Pentagon's inner circle continued Friday, when two political appointees suspended ...

Three Pentagon officials who were placed on leave as part of an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense slammed the proceedings against them as “unconscionable” on Saturday. In a ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned on Tuesday of possible prosecutions of former senior advisors who were fired during a probe into leaks of Pentagon information to the media, saying ...

Now-former Pete Hegseth chief of staff Joe Kasper initiated the leak investigation that led to the firings of senior adviser Dan Caldwell, former deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carro… ...

The upheaval comes less than 100 days into the Trump administration where the Pentagon has frequently found itself in the epicenter of controversial moves.