U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave away a major bargaining chip on Ukraine even before negotiating a settlement to end its war with Russia, according to some experts.The Pentagon chief spoke Wednesday morning before a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and said the possibility of

Palantir Technologies (PLTR -4.63%) shares have been red hot for the past couple of years, but the stock was tumbling after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to

The Defense Department is not in the business of climate change, solving the global thermostat,” Hegseth told reporters. “We’re in the business of deterring and winning wars.” Hegseth’s insistence that the Department of Defense isn’t interested in climate change would be news to all of the people at the Pentagon who are very concerned about what rising sea levels mean for DoD property around the world.

Hegseth held talks with U.K. Defence Secretary John Healey, before a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group. Hegseth's predecessor, former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, set up the forum for drumming up arms and ammunition for Ukraine in 2022.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, right, participates in a welcome ceremony with Saudi Arabia's Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP

Trump announced in a Friday night Truth Special post that he had fired Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during his first trip to Europe as Pentagon chief that the U.S. does not believe Ukraine’s membership to NATO “is a realistic outcome.”

The U.S. military will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members, according to a memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth filed in court on Monday.

The question isn’t why Pete Hegseth faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether the Pentagon chief will see more protests soon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly asked Pentagon officials Tuesday to draw up plans to slash defense spending for each of the next five years — as the department became the latest target of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cost-cutting mission.

The Pentagon says the base will commemorate a World War Two veteran instead of the Confederate general it was originally named after.