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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

Questions about inadequate security linger after rampage prompts Congress to certify election in early morning hours

Jamie McIntyre January 7, 2021 12:04 pm

The commander of U.S. Strategic Command, Navy Adm. Charles A. "Chas" Richard, provides an update on the command's mission and readiness during the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Pentagon Press Briefing Room, Washington, D.C., Sept. 14, 2020.

STRATCOM: US nuclear strategy endangered if Left cuts modernization funding

Abraham Mahshie January 7, 2021 11:30 am

State Department official says, ‘Trump fomented an insurrectionist mob’ and ‘needs to go’

Joel Gehrke January 7, 2021 4:50 am

"The Pentagon has not received any orders with regards to Venezuela," said Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon Friday evening, according to CNN.

Capitol chaos: Why didn’t Trump speak to acting Defense Secretary Miller?

Tom Rogan January 6, 2021 11:18 pm

US allies horrified by Capitol attack: ‘The US Republic has inspired millions. Not today’

Joel Gehrke January 6, 2021 11:05 pm

DC National Guard activated, reinforcements promised, as rioters lay siege to Capitol

Abraham Mahshie January 6, 2021 9:19 pm

An American flag flies outside the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department officials got a warrant to spy on a Trump campaign associate by misleading a surveillance court judge, House Republicans contend in a newly released memo that Democrats have dismissed as a contrived account intended to protect the president.

DOJ says likely Russian SolarWinds hack affected its email systems

Jerry Dunleavy January 6, 2021 8:46 pm

Police officers stand outside the U.S. Capitol building ahead of a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017. President Donald Trump will press Congress to carry out his priorities for replacing Obamacare, jump-starting the economy and bolstering the nations defenses in an address eagerly awaited by lawmakers, investors and the public who want greater clarity on his policy agenda.

A catastrophic Capitol security failure

Tom Rogan January 6, 2021 8:14 pm

National Guard troops to take back seat as Trump addresses supporters rallying to his call to overturn the election

Jamie McIntyre January 6, 2021 12:03 pm

‘Blackmailing’: Duterte threatens to scrap military pact with US to get coronavirus vaccine

Joel Gehrke January 6, 2021 11:30 am

FILE - In this June 6, 2018, file frame from Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting, IRIB, state-run TV, three versions of domestically-built centrifuges are shown in a live TV program from Natanz, an Iranian uranium enrichment plant, in Iran. Iran plans to start using a new array of advanced centrifuges for enriching uranium, the country's nuclear chief said Monday, Oct. 7, 2019, according to state television, in a move likely to intensify pressure on Europe to save Tehran's collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. Ali Akbar Salehi told Iranian state TV that an array of 30 IR-6 centrifuges will be inaugurated in the coming weeks.

Iran claims it’s installing 1,000 centrifuges after announcing expanded uranium enrichment

Zach Halaschak January 6, 2021 12:40 am

China drills ballistic missile vehicle designed to target US bases in ‘future warfare’: Report

Joel Gehrke January 5, 2021 10:00 pm