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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

Protesters burn pictures showing U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest against the U.S. Mideast peace plan, at the main road market in Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. U.S. President Donald Trump is set to unveil his administration's much-anticipated Mideast peace plan in the latest U.S. venture to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

‘A thousand noes’: Palestinian leader rejects Trump peace plan amid protests

Zach Halaschak January 28, 2020 8:58 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Trump advocates for Israel-Palestine plan in both Hebrew and Arabic

Zach Halaschak January 28, 2020 7:26 pm

‘Cowards’: Pardoned Eddie Gallagher exposes identities of active SEALs who testified against him

Madison Dibble January 28, 2020 7:14 pm

One of the hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is displayed to the crowd, blindfolded and with his hands bound, outside the embassy. Fifty-two of the hostages endured 444 days of captivity. Former Iranian hostages had varied reactions to the news of the nuclear deal between the U.S. and Iran in what is being billed as a trust-building agreement designed to yield a more comprehensive deal six months from now. (AP Photo/File)

‘They wanted to believe in Khomeini’: Book shows how Iranian mullahs manipulated Western media and ‘secular left’ to win in 1979

Joel Gehrke January 28, 2020 6:54 pm

This Jan. 26, 2020, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies shows activity at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province. Iranian officials and satellite images suggest the Islamic Republic is preparing to launch a satellite into space after three major failures last year, the latest for a program which the U.S. claims helps Tehran advance its ballistic missile program.

Iran preparing another satellite launch attempt after recent failures, images indicate

Zach Halaschak January 28, 2020 5:17 pm

In this March 7, 2017 file photo, rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard College campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard chemistry chairman charged with lying about alleged ties to China

Caitlin Yilek January 28, 2020 4:55 pm

A wreckage of a U.S. military aircraft that crashed in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, is seen on Monday. A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, an official said, adding that there were no indications so far it'd been brought down by enemy fire.

Bodies of two US service members recovered from Afghanistan crash site

Zach Halaschak January 28, 2020 4:42 pm

Posters of slain Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani are placed on chairs as supporters of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah gather for his televised speech in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020 following the U.S. airstrike in Iraq that killed Soleimani. The posters read: "Sayyad of martyrs in the axis of resistance. The martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani."

Top Saudi official says US acted in ‘legitimate self-defense’ by killing Soleimani

Zach Halaschak January 28, 2020 4:25 pm

President Donald Trump welcomes visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, Monday, March 25, 2019.

WATCH LIVE: President Trump unveils Middle East peace plan alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Washington Examiner Staff January 28, 2020 4:15 pm

‘Critical to our operations’: French defense minister asks Esper to maintain US presence in Africa

Jamie McIntyre January 28, 2020 2:27 pm

Esper warns of tough decisions in Pentagon budget due out next month

Jamie McIntyre January 28, 2020 12:10 pm

National security adviser John Bolton speaks about Venezuela outside the West Wing of the White House, Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in Washington.

John Bolton worried Trump was granting favors to autocratic leaders: Book

Carlin Becker January 28, 2020 2:39 am