Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-CA) told Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to "get the hell out" in an explosive exchange during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday. Why it matters: The congressman grilled Hegseth on a variety of issues,

The Trump administration’s chainsaw approach to federal spending lives on, even as Elon Musk turns on the president. On May 28, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced he’d be gutting a key office at the Department of Defense responsible for testing and evaluating the safety of weapons and AI systems.

In the United States, a country where many events happen and the large population means that many theories arise around certain stories, there is a surprising theory that affects a

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of joint air-to-ground missiles and related equipment to the Netherlands for an estimated cost of $215 million, the Pentagon said on Thursday.

The Pentagon is scrambling to establish rules to guide U.S. Marines who could be faced with the rare and difficult prospect of using force against citizens on American soil, now that the Trump administration is deploying active duty troops to the

Pete Hegseth's tenure as defense secretary has resulted in numerous changes at the Pentagon, particularly for journalists covering the Department of Defense. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin explains.

The defense contractor's shares fell on Wednesday amid a report that the Pentagon was only requesting 24 F-35s from Congress.

Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to "prioritize and broadly advertise" opportunities troops who are nearing separation or retirement from the military have with either Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement.