Credit: AP/Susan Walsh Austin retired from the Army in 2016 only to be asked to return to the Pentagon by President Joe Biden in 2021, making history as the nation's first Black defense secretary. He ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization scandal last year increased national security risks and should have been handled better, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog.

"Secretary Austin received several different medications during the morning of January 2 that had the potential to affect cognitive functions," the Pentagon's independent Inspector General wrote.

The Pentagon inspector general found in its review of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's hospitalization last year that it "increased unnecessarily" the risks to national security, even if ...

The next day, he restored the agreement. Over the next four years, Austin would make 11 more trips to the region, playing the Pentagon’s part in a competition with China that spanned the entire ...

It was the most cynical and fraudulent scheme in Washington… until Friday. For the past two years, the U.S. Department ...

Judges heard nearly four hours of arguments over whether former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had the authority to unwind ...

Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overrode plea deals the Pentagon reached with three alleged plotters of the 9/11 ...

The meeting next week will mark the first time that an American defense secretary has not convened the Ukraine Defense ...

There will be a lot on the plate for new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth when he steps into his office on the Pentagon’s third ...