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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

‘Military levers’: Pentagon relieved Solomon Islands attorney general ‘terminated’ China lease

Joel Gehrke October 26, 2019 12:00 am

‘Major vulnerability’: Hawley warns the Pentagon US forces could be outgunned in the Pacific

Russ Read October 25, 2019 9:54 pm

In this courtroom sketch, Maria Butina, left, is shown next to her attorney Robert Driscoll, before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, during a court hearing at the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.

Maria Butina released from prison

Caitlin Yilek October 25, 2019 3:43 pm

With his eye on Syria’s oil, Trump mulls sending troops, armor back to northeastern Syria

Jamie McIntyre October 25, 2019 11:08 am

Common thread in Trump’s unconventional foreign policy moves: ‘Wishful thinking’

Jamie McIntyre October 25, 2019 3:00 am

Beijing wants to ‘make the world safe’ for Chinese communism, US officials charge

Joel Gehrke October 24, 2019 7:37 pm

Turkish soldiers prepare to enter Syria aboard an armoured personnel carrier at the border with Syria in Karkamis, Gaziantep province, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019.

Each side in Syria conflict says the other violated new ceasefire

Russ Read October 24, 2019 7:01 pm

In this photo taken on Sunday, April 21, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia.

Five-mile runs, washing dishes, and Amazon: Russian spy Maria Butina’s life in Florida prison

Susan Katz Keating October 24, 2019 6:46 pm

China-based app TikTok draws scrutiny from senators over national security

Melissa Quinn October 24, 2019 5:15 pm

In this photo taken on April 21, 2013, Maria Butina, leader of a pro-gun organization in Russia, speaks to a crowd during a rally in support of legalizing the possession of handguns in Moscow, Russia. Butina, a 29-year-old gun-rights activist, served as a covert Russian agent while living in Washington, gathering intelligence on American officials and political organizations and working to establish back-channel lines of communications for the Kremlin, federal prosecutors charged Monday, July 16, 2018.

‘Moving a nuclear bomb’: Two ICE agents to escort released Russian spy Maria Butina to Moscow

Caitlin Yilek October 24, 2019 4:16 pm

In Brussels, Esper decries Turkey’s ‘unwarranted excursion’ into Syria, while his boss calls it ‘a great outcome, something that’s very, very special.”

Jamie McIntyre October 24, 2019 11:00 am

Senior Cybersecurity Advisor at the Department of Homeland Security Matthew Masterson, left, Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism at the FBI Nikki Flores, second from left, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security Adam Hickey, second from right, and Vice Chair at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission Ben Hoveland, right, are sworn in to testify before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, on election security.

DOJ defends assessment by CrowdStrike and FBI that Russia interfered in 2016 election

Jerry Dunleavy October 23, 2019 10:56 pm