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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

Joint Chiefs chairman meets Taliban and Afghan leaders in hope of reviving peace deal

Abraham Mahshie December 17, 2020 7:26 pm

Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller attends a briefing with the commander of U.S. Southern Command, Navy Adm. Craig Faller, at Joint Interagency Task Force South, Key West, Fla., Dec. 16, 2020.

Trump wants to make his southern anti-drug fight permanent

Abraham Mahshie December 17, 2020 7:19 pm

Sweden’s king: ‘We have failed’ to manage the coronavirus pandemic

Joel Gehrke December 17, 2020 3:59 pm

Scale of massive cyberattack that penetrated multiple government agencies prompts joint response from law enforcement and intelligence agencies

Jamie McIntyre December 17, 2020 12:05 pm

Xi Jinping tightening security amid ‘paranoia’ about domestic uprisings

Joel Gehrke December 17, 2020 11:30 am

Plaintiffs' lawyer Mehana Mouhou, center, answers reporters after the verdict in the January 2015 Paris attacks trial, Wednesday, Dec.16, 2020 in Paris. The fugitive widow of an Islamic State gunman and a man described as his logistician on Wednesday were convicted of terrorism charges in the trial of 14 people linked to the January 2015 attacks in Paris against the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket. The verdict ends the three-month trial linked to the three days of killings across Paris claimed jointly by the Islamic State group and al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Defendants in Charlie Hebdo case found guilty of complicity to commit terrorist acts

Spencer Neale December 16, 2020 9:39 pm

The newest strike against al-Shabaab is part of stepped up U.S. operations in Somalia under President Trump. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor, File)

Kenyan man indicted in alleged ‘9/11-style’ terror plot by al Shabab

Jerry Dunleavy December 16, 2020 6:40 pm

In this Aug. 31, 2018, photo, shot through a car window, a child and a woman wait outside a school entrance with multiple layers of barbed wire and barricades in Peyzawat, western China's Xinjiang region. Uighurs fear the Chinese government's expansion of compulsory Mandarin-intensive classes and boarding schools away from home will gradually erode their children's Central Asian ethnic identity and Islamic beliefs.

International Criminal Court won’t investigate China’s oppression of Uighurs

Joel Gehrke December 15, 2020 10:59 pm

"The changes to Rule 41 give federal magistrate judges across the United States new authority to issue warrants for hacking and surveillance in cases where a computer's location is unknown," the group wrote in a Tuesday letter to congressional leaders. (iStock photo)

National Security Council sets up coordinated government response to SolarWinds hack

Jerry Dunleavy December 15, 2020 10:42 pm

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaks during a ceremonial swearing in for Pompeo at the State Department, Wednesday, May 2, 2018, in Washington.

Pompeo urges future US foreign policy be made through ‘filter’ of China threat

David M. Drucker December 15, 2020 10:19 pm

Pompeo: Russia threatens Mediterranean stability

Joel Gehrke December 15, 2020 5:53 pm

Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks at a Politics & Eggs event, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019, in Manchester, N.H. Swalwell is considering a run for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Big-name House Republicans sign letter demanding Pelosi remove Swalwell from intelligence committee

Jerry Dunleavy December 15, 2020 4:17 pm