Chief of Staff Susie Wiles could make or break Trump's second term. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., who President Trump had threatened to fire once in power, on Monday said ...

Feeling burned by the holdover of Obama administration appointees during his first go-around, Trump swiftly exiled Biden ...

It's unclear who'll take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops.

"My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today," Milley said in a statement to USA Today provided by a ...

Former President Biden’s preemptive pardon for retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will ...

President Donald Trump removed four holdover high-profile presidential appointees early Tuesday, using his Truth Social ...

Both outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump used that power in self-interested, shortsighted ways.

the former chief medical advisor to the president, who served amidst the COVID pandemic as well as General Mark A. Milley, ...

The actions prompted a tense standoff between the U.S. and Colombia after Colombia's president turned away deportation flights from the U.S. Trump then threatened tariffs as high as 25% against the ...

Former President Joe Biden delivered his farewell speech Monday after the inauguration of 47th President Donald Trump in ...