The defense secretary annoyed Donald Trump with a favor for Elon Musk. Hegseth’s problems only grew from there.

The US's defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Thursday ordered the termination of IT and consulting contracts with companies including Accenture and Deloitte, calling it "wasteful spending." ...

Pete Hegseth, a former army major and now America’s defence secretary, celebrates soldiers “with dust on their boots”. But ...

My job is to create and maintain decision space for President Trump, not to purport to make decisions on his behalf.” ...