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 ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced pointed questions Wednesday from Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the deployment of National Guard members and Marines in California ...

Hegseth had previously stepped away from a leadership role of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group — turning that over to Germany and the United Kingdom — before abandoning the gathering altogether.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Navy will rename the USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson, a Medal of Honor recipient who served in World War II.

The Bajau tribe of Indonesia have become the first known humans to genetically adapt to diving. The tribe live an extremely amphibious life, and have now been proven to possess the genetic makeup to ...