Amid a scandal about accidentally sharing sensitive information, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is making a stand about military standards, especially standards for women serving in combat roles.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already. In a new memo,

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has mandated that physical fitness tests for military combat roles be “sex-neutral,” bringing to an end lower standards for some female troops. In an order announced Monday,

Despite misleading YouTube videos, U.S. President Donald Trump's defense secretary has never been a guest on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

The Naval Academy removed and then put back photos of female Jewish leaders at its Jewish chapel, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed.

Let’s look at the Signal chat in context. Days after President Donald Trump took office in January, he fired the Pentagon’s inspector general, who is often a watchdog of last resort for soldiers who call out corruption or face unfairness or injustice in the ranks.

A plurality of Republicans believe Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should resign after he shared sensitive military attack plans in a Signal group chat with other top Trump administration officials and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, according to a new poll. Newsweek reached out to the Defense Department via email for comment on Saturday.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is not expected to attend next week’s meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, marking the first time since the group’s founding three years ago that a senior Pentagon official will not be there to represent the US,