Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s clampdown on Pentagon press access has blown up into an open revolt by major newsrooms, with reporters vacating their desks rather than accept new rules that tighten movement inside the building and threaten credentials for seeking information the department has not pre-cleared.

Pete Hegseth is said to have lost the respect of his senior officers after an “embarrassing” speech in which he railed against “fat troops” and the state of the US armed forces.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. struck a boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea, marking at least the third time this week that the U.S. has attacked a vessel it says was involved in drug trafficking.

Armed with a 10-point plan and pacing a stage in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth enumerated for hundreds of assembled military lea

Zookeeper and conservationist Robert Irwin filed a $60 million lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. A rumor that circulated online in October 2025 claimed (archived) zookeeper and conservationist Robert Irwin filed a $60 million lawsuit against U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

In the three weeks since Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth suddenly called the military’s top brass to Quantico for an anti-woke stump speech, his leadership has fallen flat.

Using the Trump administration’s unofficial moniker for the department, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote in the co-signed memo that the Department of War “relies on a collaborative and close partnership with Congress to achieve our legislative goals.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is stifling the Pentagon’s channels for public information and cutting off avenues for accountability as U.S. forces deploy on missions of dubious legality that are fraught with potential danger.

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the U.S. military has carried out its ninth strike against alleged drug vessels. This is the second strike in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

The first, and perhaps most obvious, hint that the story was fabricated was that Hegseth no longer works for Fox News.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth didn't deny reported plans to have National Guard 'response force' in every state ahead of the 2026 midterms. During a conference on Thursday (23 October), a reporter asked Hegseth about a memo circulating on social media detailing,

The highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his team of being “afraid of the truth."