Live updates and the latest news as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies on the Hill, Trump grapples with the Israel-Iran ...

Congressional Democrats on Tuesday clashed repeatedly with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, demanding details on the Trump ...

The exchange with Shaheen may be ... administration lamentably subsumed WPS under its controversial national gender strategy. Understandably, Hegseth’s team will be tempted to eviscerate WPS ...

As the exchange wore on, Hegseth declined to address a Washington ... for President-elect Donald Trump’s unorthodox and often-controversial Cabinet picks kicked off Tuesday, with the Senate ...

Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee repeatedly got into heated exchanges with Hegseth, with some of the toughest lines of questioning coming from military veterans as many ...

While Republicans gave Hegseth the chance to push back against allegations ranging from sexual assault to drunkenness, Democrats homed in on Hegseth’s controversial past to argue he’s not ...

A heated exchange unfolded when Sen ... The incidents highlight tensions surrounding Hegseth's controversial nomination. Hegseth's opening statement was interrupted by three different outbursts ...

President Donald Trump joked that embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is his “least controversial person” during a cabinet meeting at the White House Wednesday. The lighthearted moment ...

Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decried on Saturday ... has found itself frequently in the epicenter of controversial moves — from firings of senior military ...

three U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the exchanges told NBC News. The sequence of events, which has not been previously reported, could raise new questions about Hegseth’s handling of ...

In one particularly contentious exchange ... s nominees ahead of the multiple controversial hearings ahead for the Senate in the coming weeks. Ultimately, Hegseth’s nomination to become the ...