WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin bid farewell Friday to the forces and personnel he has led through a tumultuous term that had three major military crises, a global pandemic and a personal ...

The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in late 2023 and early 2024 “increased unnecessarily” the risks to US national security, the Pentagon’s ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III did not inform Congress or the White House as required when he was incapacitated due to treatment for prostate cancer or when complications ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said farewell to his department Friday during an event that was filled with all the pomp and circumstance one would expect for a four-star general who ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his own senior staff about his hospitalization early last year after complications from a surgical procedure ...

The Pentagon inspector general found in its review of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's hospitalization last year that it "increased unnecessarily" the risks to national security, even if ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalizations "unnecessarily" increased America’s national security risk, according to a new report from the Department of Defense Office of ...