Instead of strengthening a weakened military—his primary duty as commander-in-chief—Obama evidently believed that it was more important to open all combat jobs to women. Assigning women to ...

From late 2024 onward, a claim circulated online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said women should not serve in military combat roles. Shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him for ...

The military announced gender-neutral standards for combat roles in 2016. In his public bid to become the next defense secretary, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth told a Senate panel on ...

The debate over women in combat roles, resolved nearly a decade ago through real-world success, has resurfaced. Revisiting it distracts from critical military priorities like recruitment ...

From late 2024 onward, a claim circulated online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said women should not serve in military combat roles. Shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him ...

If Hegseth is confirmed and restricts women from combat roles, "our military can no longer do its job," Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., said Thursday, after she declared in a floor speech that he is ...

In his public bid to become the next defense secretary, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth told a Senate panel on Tuesday that he supports women serving in combat roles so long as they meet ...

His past statements insisting women should be kept from combat roles has drawn scrutiny as well, including from Sens. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., both combat veterans.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., New York) pressed Pete Hegseth to address his public comments about women in the military, calling them “hurtful” and “terrible,” “brutal” and “mean.” ...

Democrats geared up Tuesday to grill Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth on his past behavior and opposition to women serving in combat roles during his potentially explosive confirmation ...