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,

Was Pete Hegseth sued for $50 or $60 million along with a television network after an "on-air clash" with Robert Irwin or someone else? No, that's not true: A network of spam pages on Facebook put out dozens and

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.

As someone who has become accustomed to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s past excesses, I sort of saw the new rules for journalists coming.

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

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.

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