What to know amid backlash to Trump's Defense pick Pete Hegseth's mother is Penelope "Penny" Hegseth. She previously appeared as Pete Hegseth's guest for a Mother's Day special on Fox News in 2019.

Social media users are criticizing a Democratic senator for claiming that Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth would lead a military invasion of Greenland if nominated. A confirmation hearing ...

Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, and his besieged Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth: A CBS camera briefly cut to Trump’s booth before the game during the singing of the national anthem: Penny was found not ...

By Kate Kelly Reporting from Washington Pete Hegseth, the military veteran who is President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for defense secretary, took in nearly $6 million as a Fox News ...

During his confirmation hearing Tuesday, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth vowed to reinstate and reimburse troops dismissed from the ranks for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., called out Democratic senators' "hypocritical" line of questioning of Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth during his confirmation hearing. Hegseth ...

transcript Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee called Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, unfit to serve. Meanwhile, Republicans praised ...

The military announced gender-neutral standards for combat roles in 2016. In his public bid to become the next defense secretary, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth told a Senate panel on ...

South Korean officials interpreted Hegseth's comment as showing possible U.S. recognition of North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, a status granted only to five countries under an international ...