News organizations warn the policy amounts to “intimidation” and threatens journalists’ ability to inform the public.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is at odds with the news media to a degree unseen in modern times, former Pentagon officials say.

Pete Hegseth is doubling down on the Pentagon’s new restrictions for the press corps, arguing it will not change despite complaints from the press. “I think the American people see things like that as absolute common sense,

Members of the press corps covering the Department of Defense say guidelines, newly revised, remain unsignable.

New rules that limit the access of journalists in the Pentagon and appear to condition entry into the building on agreement to restrictions have led to a standoff between the press and the Trump administration's defense department.

Activist Laura Loomer slammed the Trump administration on Friday over deepening defense ties with Qatar and made false accusations on the planned Qatari military base on U.S. soil.

Pentagon reporters are scrambling to come up with a response to an unprecedented policy restricting how they cover the military, as a deadline to sign a pledge not to report on unauthorized information looms.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s overhauling the inspector general’s office. That would upend the

A former senior Pentagon official has accused Pete Hegseth of a potential risk to national security after the defense secretary’s wife got involved in his war against reporters. The official told The New York Times that Hegseth—President Donald Trump’s self-styled “secretary of war”—displayed “poor judgment” when he tried to “expel” NBC News journalist Courtney Kube from the Pentagon as revenge for her having reported on his checkered private life.