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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

NBC reporter: Kurds believe Trump ‘gave the green light’ for Turkey to commit genocide

John Gage October 12, 2019 3:58 pm

Nearly 20 years after USS Cole attack, commanding officer and Gold Star mother frustrated with slow pace of justice

Jerry Dunleavy October 12, 2019 4:01 am

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives to testify to the House Intelligence Committee, Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, in the second public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trumpâs efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.

Former Ukraine ambassador: Trump broke ‘sacred trust’ with American diplomats

Joel Gehrke October 11, 2019 9:32 pm

‘The loyalist’: Gordon Sondland, a diplomat in Trump’s image, now at center of clamor for impeachment

Joel Gehrke October 11, 2019 8:33 pm

A U.S. soldier sits on an armored vehicle on a newly installed position, near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted a U.S. flag on a hill a little ways back from a tense front line in Syria. Now on Wednesday stood a growing outpost with a perimeter of large sand barriers and barbed wire, a new watch tower and half a dozen armored vehicles, The Associated Press found.

US Special Forces in Syria shelled by Turkish troops

John Gage October 11, 2019 7:41 pm

Abigail Grace, Adam Schiff, and Sean Misko

Adam Schiff has 2 aides who worked with whistleblower at White House

Kerry Picket October 11, 2019 6:04 pm

President Donald Trump speaks at a luncheon with members of the United Nations Security Council in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019.

US sending 2,000 troops to Saudi Arabia as Iran threat grows

Tim Pearce October 11, 2019 5:11 pm

A UK police van on a closed road.

‘He doesn’t work for us:’ NSA disavows husband of American spy in UK traffic death

Susan Katz Keating October 11, 2019 3:23 pm

This photo taken and released by the official news agency of the Iranian Oil Ministry, SHANA, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 shows Iranian oil tanker Sabiti traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Two missiles struck the Iranian tanker Sabiti traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the U.S.

Missiles hit Iranian oil tanker off coast of Saudi Arabia

Zach Halaschak October 11, 2019 1:15 pm

As casualties mount in Syria offensive, the move to sanction Turkey gains bipartisan steam in Congress

Jamie McIntyre October 11, 2019 11:13 am

A diplomat’s dilemma: How Kurt Volker ended up at the center of the Ukraine scandal

Joel Gehrke October 11, 2019 3:00 am

Black Hawk Down revisited: Lost lessons from a long-ago war

Jamie McIntyre October 11, 2019 2:00 am