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 worsened his ...

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 ...

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 ...

First, the review examined the processes, procedures, and actions related to the transfer of functions and duties from Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (Secretary Austin), to Deputy ...

The Pentagon’s internal watchdog found that both Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks violated protocol in their handling of a medical crisis last year ...

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 ...

Uh, and so, um, I'll just leave it at that. The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in late 2023 and early 2024 “increased unnecessarily” the risks to U ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was given medication during his hospitalization last year that could affect cognitive functions before he transferred his authority to his deputy, according to a new ...

Mr. Austin is the secretary of defense. Mr. Blinken is the secretary of state. President Vladimir Putin of Russia appalled the world with his full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago.