The Armed Services Committee is expected to hold Hegseth's confirmation hearing on Tuesday, ahead of President-elect Trump's ...

Senate Democrats slam “significant gaps and inadequacies” in the background vetting of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to ...

The FBI background check, which followed parameters set by the Trump transition team, may have defied standard protocol by ...

Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the FBI’s background check of ...

The report doesn't offer material from Hegseth's ex-wives or a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. Hegseth has ...

Senators are set to grill President-elect Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth Tuesday in a confirmation ...

He can communicate so well to the American people," Waltz said, adding that Hegseth can articulate "why we need what we need ...

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed ...

Responding to concerns over Pete Hegseth's background check, a legal analyst asked why Hegseth's ex-wife was not interviewed.

The former combat veteran and TV news show host says he will be a “change agent” and a “warrior” for the department.

Donald Trump’s transition team is insisting that the FBI’s background check on Pete Hegseth, his nominee for Defense Secretary, is not shared more widely. Trump’s team insist that those documents are ...