Defense

Navy Secretary John Phelan, speaks during a Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on the Department of Defense, during a hearing on budget estimates for the Navy, Tuesday, June 24, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Former Navy Secretary John Phelan gives $1 million to group aiding sailors and Marines

David Zimmermann · November 11, 2026 5:19 pm

U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, and his wife Jennifer Rauchet stand alongside Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on National Veterans Day Observance at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Arlington guard scolds Hegseth’s entourage for laughing near Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Nancy Pelosi

Pelosi one of 11 Democrats who failed to vote in Hegseth impeachment bid

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth conducts a press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Nov. 10, 2026. (DoW photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Madelyn Keech)

Hegseth ties impeachment efforts against him to attacks on Trump and troops

Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth defiant in first press briefing since Thomas Massie reintroduced articles of impeachment: ‘Political spectacle’

‘I Will Have To’

Washington Examiner February 2, 2013 7:05 pm

Coats Opposes Hagel

Daniel Halper February 1, 2013 10:20 pm

Kirk Opposes Hagel

Daniel Halper February 1, 2013 9:26 pm

Terminal Dimmitude

Noemie Emery February 1, 2013 8:05 pm

Obama Advisor on Hagel Hearing: ‘Baffling and Incomprehensible’

Daniel Halper February 1, 2013 7:41 pm

Blunt Opposes Hagel

Daniel Halper February 1, 2013 3:41 pm

Any Profiles in Courage?

William Kristol February 1, 2013 2:10 pm

Schieffer on Hagel: ‘I Think His Nomination May Be in Trouble’

Daniel Halper February 1, 2013 1:19 pm

Cruz: Hagel’s ‘Confirmation Day Conversion’

Daniel Halper February 1, 2013 1:01 pm

Hagel: Iran’s Government Is ‘Elected, Legitimate’

Daniel Halper January 31, 2013 5:30 pm

Rubio’s Against Hagel

Daniel Halper January 31, 2013 4:49 pm

Senator to DefSec Nominee: Why Have the Iranians Endorsed You?

Daniel Halper January 31, 2013 4:29 pm