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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

Group of senators asks Twitter to ban top Iranian officials from platform

Zach Halaschak February 7, 2020 9:13 pm

Paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division prepare equipment and load aircraft bound for the U.S. Central Command area of operations from Fort Bragg, N.C. on January 4, 2020. This deployment is a precautionary action taken to respond to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities. The 'Devil' Brigade is the nucleus of the U.S. Immediate Response Force, capable of rapidly deploying anywhere in the world in response to a variety of contingency operations.

Some troops deployed amid Iran tensions are coming back to US, families told

Zach Halaschak February 7, 2020 7:35 pm

‘Appalling’: Hillary Clinton rips Trump over likely ouster of Alexander Vindman

Madison Dibble February 7, 2020 6:37 pm

‘End that son of a bitch’: Philippine president says he will scrap military pact with US

Joel Gehrke February 7, 2020 5:01 pm

Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a military officer at the National Security Council, center, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Alexander Vindman to be ousted from National Security Council as early as Friday

Katherine Doyle February 7, 2020 4:04 pm

Esper prepares to roll out transformational Pentagon budget that emphasizes high-tech future warfare

Jamie McIntyre February 7, 2020 11:59 am

Is the US military pushing its ‘super troops’ too hard?

Jamie McIntyre, Susan Katz Keating February 7, 2020 4:00 am

Trump confirms US killed top al Qaeda leader in Yemen

Zach Halaschak February 6, 2020 11:39 pm

A display from The Satanic Temple-Chicago has been placed in the Statehouse rotunda at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. It joins the Nativity scene to mark the Christmas season and the Menorah to mark Hanukkah.

Star Wars? Not quite, Pentagon says, but Space Force vision includes weapons

Abraham Mahshie February 6, 2020 9:37 pm

Satellites impact every part of life in the U.S. Welcome to the future of warfare. (Air Force)

‘A threat to our allies’: Russia stalking US satellites, NATO general warns

Joel Gehrke February 6, 2020 7:16 pm

Liberal climate change activists acknowledge âitâs a tough hurdleâ to convince Joe Biden, known for his loyalty, to banish people he worked with in the Obama administration.

‘Frozen by paralysis of analysis’: Obama administration botched response to election meddling from Russia, senators say

Jerry Dunleavy February 6, 2020 4:01 pm

A man walks past a Huawei retail shop in Shenzhen, China's Guangdong province, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Chinese tech giant Huawei is challenging a U.S. law that labels the company a security risk and would limit its access to the American market for telecom equipment.

‘We can’t hold back’: British telecommunications executive urges Europe to go easy on Huawei

Joel Gehrke February 5, 2020 11:32 pm