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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

Time may be running out for TikTok as Pompeo joins chorus of warnings from Florida officials

Washington Examiner July 10, 2020 7:00 pm

Then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill last year. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

FBI concluded Flynn wasn’t an agent of Russia and didn’t believe he was trying to lie, notes show

Jerry Dunleavy July 10, 2020 5:43 pm

This photo released by the Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office shows a burning vehicle at the Baghdad International Airport following an airstrike, in Baghdad, Iraq, early Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. The Pentagon said Thursday that the U.S. military has killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, at the direction of President Donald Trump.

Pompeo responds to UN report that contends US killing of Soleimani was ‘unlawful’

Zach Halaschak July 10, 2020 3:15 pm

China rejects US demands to join nuclear talks

Caitlin Yilek July 10, 2020 12:28 pm

Vice President Joe Biden listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016.

Richard Grenell: Biden was ‘manipulating intelligence’

Daniel Chaitin July 10, 2020 12:17 pm

Kim Jong Un’s sister says another summit with Trump unlikely

Caitlin Yilek July 10, 2020 12:00 pm

Pentagon hasn’t closed the book on ‘uncorroborated’ intelligence that Russia paid bounties to Taliban to kill US troops

Jamie McIntyre July 10, 2020 11:06 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.

New head of US Global Media wants to refocus VOA

Jamie McIntyre July 10, 2020 3:00 am

Mexican border arrests double since April despite Trump effort to deter crossings

Anna Giaritelli July 9, 2020 9:44 pm

Flags flying a half-staff in honor of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., frame the U.S. Capital at daybreak in Washington, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. McCain, 81, died at his ranch in Arizona after a yearlong battle with brain cancer.

Allies should ‘merge’ military and police intelligence to counter China: Pentagon

Joel Gehrke July 9, 2020 9:16 pm

Europe promises to spend more on its own defense

Joel Gehrke July 9, 2020 8:14 pm

President Donald Trump passes Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn as he arrives via Air Force One at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Trump stopped for a visit to the headquarters for U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command before returning to Washington.

Flynn judge seeks rehearing by full appeals court after being ordered to dismiss case

Jerry Dunleavy July 9, 2020 7:23 pm