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Scott Bessent becomes the fifth Trump official to move on to a military base. Here’s who else has moved

Rena Rowe · November 11, 2026 12:43 pm

President Donald Trump listens as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks.

Bessent moves to military base due to Iranian assassination threat

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a campaign rally with President Donald Trump at Alico Arena on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University.

US likely to lose its measles elimination status this week

Workers continue to deploy large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The floating barrier is being deployed in an effort to block migrants from entering Texas from Mexico.

Greg Abbott spent years fortifying the Texas border. Gina Hinojosa could undo it all

Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll testifies before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the budget request of the Department of the Army, on Capitol Hill, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary Dan Driscoll two months after Pentagon exit

Pentagon’s cumbersome bureaucracy blamed for slow response of National Guard in deadly Capitol siege

Jamie McIntyre January 8, 2021 12:16 pm

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee markup of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 17, 2020.

Eric Swalwell should be kicked off intel committee and stripped of security clearance, experts say

Joseph Simonson January 8, 2021 11:30 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

The override of Trump’s NDAA veto shows Congress can reign supreme

Jamie McIntyre January 8, 2021 4:00 am

US officials see fewer than 10 agencies compromised in recent attack

Grant Gross January 8, 2021 4:00 am

Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S Capitol in Washington D.C., on January 6.

Intelligence ‘all over the board’ in failed DC National Guard preparation for Capitol siege

Abraham Mahshie January 7, 2021 11:05 pm

Chain of command: What went wrong during Capitol siege and why wasn’t it stopped?

Anna Giaritelli January 7, 2021 9:56 pm

White House fires State Department official who blamed Trump for ‘insurrectionist’ Capitol riot

Joel Gehrke January 7, 2021 9:13 pm

‘Deja vu’: China invokes Capitol crisis to justify Hong Kong crackdown

Joel Gehrke January 7, 2021 9:07 pm

In this May 21, 2014, photo, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, smile during signing ceremony in Shanghai, China. China signed a long-awaited, 30-year deal Wednesday to buy Russian natural gas worth some $400 billion in a financial and diplomatic boost to diplomatically isolated President Vladimir Putin. The Obama administration is playing down an increasingly warm relationship between its main global rivals, China and Russia, that it may have inadvertently encouraged.

Intelligence analysts downplayed Chinese election influence to avoid supporting Trump policies, inspector finds

Jerry Dunleavy January 7, 2021 7:21 pm

States send additional National Guard troops to shore up capital

Abraham Mahshie January 7, 2021 5:13 pm

Trump pulls nomination of Chad Wolf as DHS secretary after rebuke

Anna Giaritelli January 7, 2021 5:00 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington.

Pompeo to send UN ambassador to Taiwan in rebuke of China’s Hong Kong crackdown

Joel Gehrke January 7, 2021 4:52 pm