Former news anchor and political commentator Pete Hegseth was sworn in as the U.S. Secretary of Defense, with his family ...

Defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth paid his sexual assault accuser $50,000 in a settlement agreement with the woman, ...

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Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth heads into a tight confirmation vote Friday to become the nation’s defense secretary amid ...

As the dust settles on the fight over Pete Hegseth's nomination, his confirmation is emblematic of a larger truth about the state of Republican politics.

Tim Kaine tears into Pete Hegseth during Tuesday’s confirmation ... Hegseth was carrying out an extramarital affair with Jennifer Rauchet, then a Fox News producer. Rauchet had Hegseth’s ...

Pete Hegseth, Trump's defence pick, has three wives and seven children, with a personal life marked by controversy.

Awkward exchanges about the defense secretary hopeful’s past were plentiful as Democrats went after the first embattled Trump pick to face a confirmation hearing.

Pete Hegseth pitched himself as a "change agent ... and shortly after the birth of a child resulting from a separate affair between Hegseth and a colleague. “I am shocked you would stand ...

A decade of live television sharpened Pete Hegseth so much so that even Senate ... Zeroing in on the extramarital affair, he called into question the nominee’s fidelity.