The Washington Post last week reported that Hegseth ordered a U.S. strike force to kill everyone on board one vessel in September. When two survivors were seen in the wreckage, commanders launched a second “double tap” strike to kill them.

Even Republicans are calling for an investigation.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth detailed new military physical standards requiring all members to meet the highest male standard for their positions in an interview with Katie Miller.

The publisher of Franklin the Turtle condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of its children’s book character in a social media post making light of possible war crimes.

Investigations are mounting into the legality of strikes that have killed scores of people in the waters off Venezuela.

Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, came under growing pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers who said that a second strike on the wreck of an alleged drug-smuggling vessel may have been a war crime.

President Donald Trump hosted a Cabinet meeting at the White House Tuesday afternoon, followed by an announcement about "Trump accounts" for some American children.Also on Tuesday, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff joins the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner in a high-stakes meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow,