President Joe Biden appeared to forget the name of his own Secretary of Defense on Wednesday, referring to Lloyd Austin as the “Black man” in an interview with Black Entertainment Television ...

THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WCTV) - Former U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the nation’s first Black defense secretary, was honored Monday in his hometown of Thomasville with a street renaming.

THOMASVILLE- Members from across the community gathered at the Ritz Amphitheater on Thursday afternoon for a special homecoming ceremony, welcoming back the Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III, the 28th ...

THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WALB) - The city of Thomasville held a special ceremony honoring The Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III, 28th United States Secretary of Defense, with the renaming of a section of ...

In an age when it’s nearly impossible to go off the grid, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin managed it. He failed to notify the White House and other key players that he was hospitalized in the ...

The issue isn’t with Austin himself, but with the fact that he retired in 2016 and the National Security Act of 1947 requires a prospective secretary to wait seven years after ending active duty ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ... at a moment’s notice." Austin retired from the Army in 2016 only to be asked to return to the Pentagon by President Joe Biden in 2021, making ...

The Pentagon confirmed Sunday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized Jan. 1 after experiencing "severe pain" from complications of a Dec. 22 elective surgery. But officials struggled ...