The report doesn't offer material from Hegseth's ex-wives or a woman who accused him of sexual assault in 2017. Hegseth has ...

The FBI background check, which followed parameters set by the Trump transition team, may have defied standard protocol by ...

Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, called the FBI’s background check of ...

The Armed Services Committee is expected to hold Hegseth's confirmation hearing on Tuesday, ahead of President-elect Trump's ...

Senate Democrats slam “significant gaps and inadequacies” in the background vetting of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to ...

Democrats have expressed concern over the delay and how thorough the report on Trump’s embattled defense secretary pick will ...

Democratic lawmakers suggest there has been a cover-up over the FBI background check into Hegseth, the secretary of defense ...

Pete Hegseth could hardly be more suited to be Donald Trump’s secretary of Defense — even though he’d surely be deemed ...

Hegseth says he will be a “change agent” and a “warrior” as Republicans demand new and strong leadership at the Pentagon.

Donald Trump's pick for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, is facing stiff criticism from Democrats—but most Republicans back ...

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, who had been seen as a key Republican skeptic of Pete Hegseth’s nomination to lead the Defense ...