Americans are watching what happens when someone with a reputation for alleged mismanagement is given the keys to the most powerful army in human history.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pledged that the Trump administration would “take back” the Panama Canal from “China’s influence” on Tuesday during a visit to the key shipping lane.

Find him on Twitter @GabeWhisnant. The Chinese government responded after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned Tuesday that the Panama Canal remains under persistent threat from China.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will issue a memo setting equal standards for men and women in combat roles across the armed services, he announced on X Monday.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should do the “honorable” thing and resign his position for the sake of the troops he’s tasked with leading, according to one Bay State congressman.

That would be Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who Moulton said now has "three options here: the honorable thing to do, the right thing to do, is to resign, because you've lost all moral authority ...

In the "SNL" sketch, a group of high school girls were gossiping, only to discover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes) had entered their group chat to discuss a raid on Yemen.

“Nobody’s texting war plans,” insisted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reporters in Hawaii on Wednesday. And yet, as Goldberg reported, Hegseth described airstrikes that would be carried ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sunday a plan to upgrade the U.S. military command in Japan, a country he described as indispensable in combating Chinese aggression. "We share a ...

about high school and crushes in a group chat infiltrated by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, played by Andrew Dismukes. “FYI, green light on Yemen raid. Rockets went airborne 15 minutes ...

Stephanie Garcia Richard ... to see how cavalierly they misrepresented this," he said. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, second from right, walks outside the Oval Office at the White House, Friday ...

“Saturday Night Live” took on the Signalgate drama, spoofing the scandal by casting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance as accidentally stumbling into a text chain of ...