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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

Vietnam charges China with sinking one of its fishing vessels in South China Sea

Joel Gehrke April 3, 2020 6:34 pm

China tells foreign diplomats not to come back to the country amid coronavirus pandemic

Joel Gehrke April 3, 2020 3:22 pm

FILE - In this April 13, 2018, file photo the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is anchored off Manila Bay west of Manila, Philippines. The captain of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus is asking for permission to isolate the bulk of his roughly 5,000 crew members on shore, which would take the warship out of duty in an effort to save lives. The ship is docked in Guam.

‘The man for the people’: Sailors hail ‘unjustly relieved’ Navy captain who warned of coronavirus spread

Spencer Neale April 3, 2020 2:43 pm

Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Warren says John Bolton snubbed senators who asked about pandemics

Caitlin Yilek April 3, 2020 2:18 pm

Navy draws heavy fire for sacking skipper of coronavirus-infected aircraft carrier

Jamie McIntyre April 3, 2020 11:17 am

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021. More recently, two U.S. defense companies were sanctioned by the Chinese government due to their participation in arms sales with Taiwan.

‘The world needs Taiwan’: Coronavirus pandemic gives beleaguered island a chance to turn tables on China

Joel Gehrke April 3, 2020 4:00 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 Marine commandant is implementing a radical makeover to confront China

Jamie McIntyre April 3, 2020 3:00 am

Sailors man the rails as the USS Theodore Roosevelt is manuvered into it's berth at the Norfolk Naval Station in Norfolk, Va., Thursday May 29, 2003. The nuclear powered aircraft carrier returned from a five month deployment during which it took part in the war in Iraq.

USS Roosevelt commander relieved after COVID outbreak letter leaked

Abraham Mahshie April 2, 2020 10:17 pm

State Department: ‘Millions’ of religious prisoners could be left to die of coronavirus

Joel Gehrke April 2, 2020 9:15 pm

Ventilators sit idle as Navy hospital ships and Army field hospitals refuse COVID-19 patients

Abraham Mahshie April 2, 2020 7:33 pm

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, center, who has declared himself the interim president of Venezuela, greets supporters as he arrives at a demonstration demanding the resignation of President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela.

‘We were very proud of him’: Daughter grapples with National Guardsman’s death from coronavirus

Abraham Mahshie April 2, 2020 4:10 pm

With aircraft carrier hobbled by coronavirus, Navy officials scramble to contain blowback from initial slow response

Jamie McIntyre April 2, 2020 11:02 am