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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

USCGC Margaret Norvell (WPC 1105), front, and USCGC Kathleen Moore (WPC 1109) sail alongside the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) as it is anchored off the coast of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti in preparation for a six-day medical mission, Nov. 4, 2019.

Navy hospital ships on alert for deployment, troops remain lower risk category

Abraham Mahshie March 18, 2020 8:11 pm

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., walks to the Senate as an 11th-hour Republican rescue mission to keep President Donald Trump from a Senate defeat on his signature issue of building barriers along the southwest border seems near collapse, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 13, 2019.

Senate rejects Rand Paul’s offset plan for $104B coronavirus bill

Susan Ferrechio March 18, 2020 6:21 pm

The uniformed leader of the Air Force called NATO "the strongest alliance on the planet." (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Air Force moving test kits for HHS and working to isolate crews from coronavirus

Abraham Mahshie March 18, 2020 5:24 pm

Exclusive: Coronavirus cases in Department of Defense up to 59 after reporting change

Abraham Mahshie March 18, 2020 1:29 pm

Iran repeatedly attacks US troops as coronavirus outbreak distracts public attention

Joel Gehrke March 18, 2020 11:00 am

Attorney General William Barr, center, accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, right, speaks at the Justice Department's National Opioid Summit at the Department of Justice, Friday, March 6, 2020, in Washington.

Barr: ‘Severe’ consequences if foreign government behind HHS cyberattack during coronavirus outbreak

Jerry Dunleavy March 18, 2020 2:27 am

DOD to deliver to HHS up to 5 million respirator masks and 2,000 ventilators from reserve

Abraham Mahshie March 17, 2020 10:05 pm

Pompeo: Chinese Communist Party responsible for coronavirus 'suffering' at home and in US

Joel Gehrke March 17, 2020 9:30 pm

US to label new ISIS leader a ‘specially designated global terrorist’

Zach Halaschak March 17, 2020 8:30 pm

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi listens to a journalist's question during a press conference.

China pulls credentials of journalists working for New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, and VOA

Joel Gehrke March 17, 2020 5:24 pm

Nation’s nuclear command imposes aggressive preventive coronavirus measures

Abraham Mahshie March 17, 2020 5:16 pm

MIAMI (March 8, 2020) -- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives at U.S. Southern Command headquarters and is greeted by SOUTHCOM Commander, Navy Adm. Craig Faller, and Command Senior Enlisted Leader, Marine Sgt. Maj. Bryan K. Zickefoose. Bolsonaro's press chief, Fabio Wajngarten, who tested positive for COVID-19, is visible in the background at left with a blue tie.

Southcom protects personnel exposed to coronavirus-infected Brazilian delegation

Abraham Mahshie March 17, 2020 5:08 pm