Credit: AP/Susan Walsh Austin retired from the Army in 2016 only to be asked to return to the Pentagon by President Joe Biden in 2021, making history as the nation's first Black defense secretary. He ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization scandal last year increased national security risks and should have been handled better, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s watchdog.

"Secretary Austin received several different medications during the morning of January 2 that had the potential to affect cognitive functions," the Pentagon's independent Inspector General wrote.

The Pentagon inspector general found in its review of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's hospitalization last year that it "increased unnecessarily" the risks to national security, even if ...

Judges heard nearly four hours of arguments over whether former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had the authority to unwind ...

Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overrode plea deals the Pentagon reached with three alleged plotters of the 9/11 ...

Signed on Wednesday by Jeffrey Register, the director of the Pentagon's human resources department ... Then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instituted the policy in October 2022 to ensure that ...

A memo from Monday outlines the service’s desire for Congress to close the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of ...

The Pentagon later released an official photo saying ... Wade, then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin came out with a policy that would allow service members to take leave and be reimbursed for ...

A new memo says the Defense Department will no longer reimburse service members for travel out of state to get reproductive ...