The Senate overwhelming confirmed Ashton Carter as the new U.S. defense secretary. WSJ’s Jerry Seib discusses the top challenges Mr. Carter will face. Photo: AP.

The decision five years ago by then Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to open all positions in the armed forces to women - including combat duty - was largely applauded as a necessary step that ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter wants to save money to purchase more fighter jets and missiles for the Navy. Manohar Parrikar's visit to the U.S. was full of "firsts." ...

Carter Ashton, a 2009 first-round pick, is heading to the KHL after a trying NHL campaign that saw him suspended for violating the performance enhancing substance program and later traded out of ...

Recipients included Robert F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator and attorney general who was assassinated in 1968; former Defense Secretary Ashton Baldwin Carter, who served under presidents of both ...