Pentagon officials are pushing spokesperson Sean Parnell for the position and launching attacks against other candidates.

The secretary had been a regular on Bloomberg's TV programming and in its reporting for years, first as the founder of a hedge fund, and increasingly as he rose in Donald Trump's circle to become the most powerful financial official in the now-president's Cabinet.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced today he will retire from his position, concluding nearly 38 years of service at the Smithsonian and a career that has shaped the museum field in the United States and beyond.

Lonnie Bunch is retiring from his role as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the organization announced in a statement on Tuesday, amid the Trump administration’s increased attacks on the nation’s preeminent museum network. Bunch, who was the first Black person and first historian to lead the Smithsonian, served in the role for seven years.

After weeks of controversy amid accusations of sharing sensitive information about military operations in unsecured chats with unauthorized recipients, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly under pressure from within the Trump administration, which ...

Senate confirmation hearings are slated to begin on Jan. 14, 2025, for Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has chosen to serve as the next secretary of defense. It’s a massive job, broadly affecting Americans’ security at home and abroad ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pete Buttigieg has been a particularly consequential secretary of the Department of Transportation. During his tenure, the agency passed a slew of new consumer protections and generally ...

The secretary of homeland security is the newest permanent member of the president’s Cabinet, overseeing the sprawling agencies and missions of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and an annual budget exceeding US$62.2 billion. It is a massive ...

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is this year’s designated survivor, retreating from Washington to an undisclosed location during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday. Cardona will stay away from the US Capitol, fulfilling the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s approval rating has fallen to its lowest level in a new poll, as questions are raised about his Pentagon leadership.