#Pete Hegseth

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in his official Department of Defense portrait, taken in January 2025.

House votes 211-204 to send the Hegseth impeachment resolution to committee, shelving it for this Congress

The United States Capitol in Washington at sunrise, in a photograph released by the House of Representatives in January 2023.

Congress returns for a five-week lame duck with a December 11 funding cliff and a leadership fight on Tuesday

A vehicle-mounted Active Denial System, the U.S. military's directed-energy "heat ray," in an Air Force photograph from 2007.

Pentagon lends its "heat ray" to Homeland Security for seven months of testing at the southern border

The E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in 2024.

Artificial intelligence

Appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic over Claude's safeguards

Rep. Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, in his 2022 official House portrait.

House leaves early for the midterms, pushing Massie's Hegseth impeachment vote to November