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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

Defense Intelligence Agency Director Gen. Robert Ashley speaks in Washington.

China plans to use information to ‘dominate in the future,’ says defense intelligence chief

Russ Read August 19, 2019 10:49 pm

This Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019 photoprovided by the U.S. Defense Department shows the launch of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile on San Nicolas Island off the coast of California. The Pentagon said Monday the U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month. The test off the coast of California on Sunday marks the resumption of an arms competition that some analysts worry could increase U.S.-Russian tensions. (Scott Howe/U.S. Defense Department via AP)

Pentagon sends message to Russia after conducting first missile test since Trump left Cold War-era arms treaty

Russ Read August 19, 2019 10:38 pm

Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, right, and his wife, Andrea Gallagher leave a military court on Naval Base San Diego on Tuesday in San Diego. A military jury acquitted a decorated Navy SEAL of premeditated murder Tuesday in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017.

Former lawyer demands $1M in unpaid fees from Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher

Russ Read August 19, 2019 10:23 pm

An F-35B fighter jet lands at Luke Air Force Base in this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013 photo, in Goodyear, Arizona.

Former fighter pilots developing aggressive cancers: Is radar to blame?

Russ Read August 19, 2019 6:35 pm

China exploiting holes in US bankruptcy system to acquire national security technology

Russ Read August 19, 2019 6:27 pm

Trump’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan: Cutting a deal or cutting and running?

Jamie McIntyre August 19, 2019 11:21 am

People buy flags to celebrate Pakistan's independence day in Lahore, Pakistan.

India accuses Pakistan of stoking ‘jihad’ as Trump sides with New Delhi in territorial dispute

Joel Gehrke August 17, 2019 12:23 am

Trump opens ‘third front’ against China with Taiwan fighter jet sale

Joel Gehrke August 17, 2019 12:04 am

Iranian flags fly in front of a U.N. building, where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, July 2, 2014.

Iran gets diplomatic win against US in standoff over IRGC-linked oil tanker

Joel Gehrke August 16, 2019 11:54 pm

President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing on Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Washington.

Trump meets with top advisers about withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in potential peace deal with Taliban

Hunter Lovell August 16, 2019 9:48 pm

Floating ice, left over from broken-up icebergs shed from the Greenland ice sheet, nearly cover the seafront in Ilulissat, Greenland.

Trump can’t buy Greenland, but it is crucial to US national security

Russ Read August 16, 2019 7:49 pm

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center wearing turban, greets school children after addressing the nation on the country's Independence Day from the ramparts of Mughal-era Red Fort, in New Delhi, India.

India celebrates control over key territory as China backs Pakistan at United Nations

Joel Gehrke August 16, 2019 7:30 pm