Like many Pentagon chiefs who have come before him, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is standing up a task force to support his top priority for the department. In this case, it’s rooting out policies, education, and training that relate to diversity-equity-inclusion efforts—including a few that don’t actually exist.

Washington, D.C., newly appointed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense is working alongside a senior-level investigation team from the U.S. Army aviation Center of Excellence to find out what exactly happened in the accident that is believed to have claimed 64 civilian and three soldiers' lives.

Senators voted 51-49 to advance Hegseth's defense secretary bid, which has been mired in several controversies. Two Republicans oppose him.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Army’s 12th Aviation Battalion that includes the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the deadly crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport has been granted a 48-hour operational pause.

Gen. Mark Milley, a frequent target Trump’s, will lose his security detail and face an inspector general investigation, said a senior defense official.

Senators vetting the nomination of Pete Hegseth for defense secretary received an affidavit from a former sister-in-law alleging that the onetime Fox News was abusive to his second wife to the point where she feared for her safety.

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth called the horrific Washington DC plane crash a “horrible loss of life” while providing an update on the incident Thursday

Crews are recovering bodies from the Potomac River after a military helicopter and a commercial plane collided, killing all 67 people on board both aircraft.

The Senate confirmed Pete Hegseth late Friday, swatting back questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon.

A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization with nearly 2.1 million service members, about 780,000 civilians and a budget of $850 billion.

In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan National Airport, at least two other pilots reported near-misses with helicopters while landing at the airport,