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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

Iranian lawmakers chant slogans including âDeath to Americaâ and âNo compromise! No surrender! Revenge! Revenge!â as some of them hold posters of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack on Friday, in an open session of parliament, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Iran's parliament has passed an urgent bill declaring the U.S. military's command at the Pentagon in Washington and those acting on its behalf âterrorists," subject to Iranian sanctions. The U.S. Defense Department used the Guardâs designation as a terror organization in the U.S. to support the strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, a top guard commander.

Iranian parliament designates Pentagon and US military as terrorist organizations in unanimous vote

Zach Halaschak January 7, 2020 2:57 pm

A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber flies in the sky.

US dispatches nuclear-capable B-52 bombers as signal to Iran

Jamie McIntyre January 7, 2020 2:51 pm

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the ministry in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, February 11, 2019. Pompeo is on an official visit to Hungary.

WATCH: Pompeo delivers remarks amid tensions with Iran

Washington Examiner Staff January 7, 2020 2:24 pm

Pentagon vigorously defends Trump’s decision to kill top Iranian general, and the intelligence behind it

Jamie McIntyre January 7, 2020 12:09 pm

‘The pressure will increase’: Standoff between Maduro and Guaido will deepen, says Trump’s Venezuela expert

Joel Gehrke January 7, 2020 5:05 am

Endless array of targets: The terrifying possibilities for an Iranian cyberattack

Anna Giaritelli January 7, 2020 5:00 am

Secretary of the Army Mark Esper leaves the Meuse-Argonne cemetery, northeastern France, after a remembrance ceremony, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2018.

‘It was a mistake’: Pentagon backtracks on Iraq troop withdrawal amid chaos over general’s letter

Russ Read January 6, 2020 9:38 pm

Chevron evacuates American oil workers from Iraq as a ‘precautionary measure’

Zach Halaschak January 6, 2020 8:05 pm

Al-Shabaab is a repugnant and evil bunch, formally allied with al Qaeda, but the group's focus thus far has been regional: the creation of an Islamic state in Somalia, and, as an AS spokesman put it in 2010, "sending a message to every country who is willing to send troops to Somalia," like Uganda and Kenya. (AP File)

‘He will be missed’: High school principal proud to have known Chicago soldier killed in Kenya terror attack

Russ Read January 6, 2020 7:07 pm

Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman delivers remarks during the United Against Nuclear Iran summit, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in New York.

Joe Lieberman blasts 2020 Democrats for opposing Trump’s ‘morally’ correct decision to kill Soleimani

Zach Halaschak January 6, 2020 7:03 pm

Impugns ‘credibilty’ of UN Security Council: US scolds Russia and China for blocking condemnation of Baghdad embassy attack

Joel Gehrke January 6, 2020 6:37 pm

Coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others who were killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike, are carried on a truck surrounded by mourners during a funeral procession at the Enqelab-e-Eslami (Islamic Revolution) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. The processions mark the first time Iran honored a single man with a multi-city ceremony. Not even Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who founded the Islamic Republic, received such a processional with his death in 1989. Soleimani on Monday will lie in state at Tehran's famed Musalla mosque as the revolutionary leader did before him.

Top GOP lawyer: Attacking Iranian cultural sites would breach Hague Cultural Property Convention

Zach Halaschak January 6, 2020 6:24 pm