Just before 5 p.m., he transferred his authority to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks. In a statement late Sunday night ...

The inspector general found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks mismanaged protocols during his 2024 hospitalization for prostate cancer treatment. In a ...

The investigation details exasperation among key aides to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin as he refused to disclose the extent of his medical crisis last year.

Neither Austin’s chief of staff nor Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks knew of his cancer diagnosis or the procedure he underwent in December 2023. In fact, OIG notes that "nearly all of ...

had sought to keep his condition and the fact that he had been incapacitated while under general anesthesia secret from President Joe Biden and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks. Robert ...

It’s hard to see amid the tumult surrounding the Department of Government Efficiency and its assaults on various government ...

He sought to keep his condition and the fact that he had been incapacitated while under general anesthesia secret from President Biden and Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks.

Austin, suffering from complications after surgery for prostate cancer, had sought to keep his condition and the fact that he had been incapacitated while under general anesthesia secret from ...