A Princeton and Harvard-educated former combat veteran, Hegseth went on to make a career at Fox News, where he hosted a weekend show. Trump tapped him as the defense secretary to lead an organization ...

Pete Hegseth is accustomed to life in the public eye, but lately, he has faced criticism over his past. In late 2024, The New York Times published an old email from Hegseth’s mother, Penelope ...

To The New York Times, it was a standard journalistic ... it constituted a threat. On Wednesday, Pete Hegseth’s mother accused the Times of making “threats” by calling about its story ...