In a speech earlier today, Vice President Vance downplayed the threat from Russia by warning European leaders they should be more concerned about the "threat from within." NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist reports the latest.

NATO members in Europe should bear more of the costs of collective defense, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday, echoing President Donald Trump’s call for allies to spend 5% of their GDP on defense while sidestepping suggestions that the US should hit the same target.

Middle schoolers at a U.S. military school in Germany chanted 'DEI' at a protest against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Ukraine’s desire to recover territory lost to Russia since 2014 an “unrealistic objective," during a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting in Brussels on Feb. 12.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the US is committed to a sovereign Ukraine but that NATO membership isn’t a realistic outcome.

"FOX News Sunday" host Shannon Bream asked Defense Secretary Hegseth why the Trump administration seems "reticent" to admit that Russia "started" the war in Ukraine. "My question is, does all the finger-pointing and pearl-clutching make peace more likely?

President Donald Trump’s administration fired thousands of federal workers. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as Trump’s health secretary. Ukraine and European allies are alarmed by the Trump administration’s moves.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said a return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders was unrealistic and the Trump administration does not see NATO membership for Kyiv as part of a solution to the war triggered by Russia's invasion.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said NATO countries need to spend more on defense to ensure peace and American support against any aggression.

The Pentagon says the base will commemorate a World War Two veteran instead of the Confederate general it was originally named after.